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The need to make sense of an ever-increasing stream of data has never been greater, especially in a mobile context. At Mobile HCI’10 last year, a team from Nokia research presented a prototype solution for feed aggregation, dubbed Lenses. This allows people to curate their own stream of content relevant to different purposes – [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of reading and writing around context awareness the past couple of months – so much so that I changed the subtitle of this site to include it. It’s safe to say that the notion of this kind of awareness completely captured my imagination, or at the very least, led me [...]
It’s been 12 months since I started my PhD, and it’s probably a good time to take stock and figure out exactly where I’m taking things. I wrote an original abstract after our initial visit and talks to park rangers, and have had it stuck to my wall since. Today, finally, it bugged me – [...]
On Friday I gave a presentation in one of the last sessions at OZCHI in Brisbane, Australia. It covered some familiar topics that I’ve presented on before, but also contained new elements of what location as context might mean.
The paper is available in the OZCHI proceedings, and I’ll upload a version here [...]
There seems to be a recent trend towards augmenting new services with nostalgic versions from less tech-y times – the above taken on an inner city suburban street in Melbourne; it invites people to take a token and SMS the code. Just because you can pull out the technology, doesn’t mean you should. [...]
A few weeks ago Intel CTO Justin Rattner gave a keynote speech on Intel’s vision for context-awareness. The opening video is a little cheesy, but it shows just how important a problem the notion of context has become to technology (and the companies most involved in it’s creation). Most of the examples shown are around [...]
Geoplaced Knowledge
This is a research notebook exploring the gaps between cultural geography, natural environments and ubiquitous computing.
It documents my progress undertaking a cross-disciplinary PhD, in Geospatial Science and Design at RMIT University, Melbourne.
I'm working with Parks Victoria, a government body charged with managing natural environments in the state of Victoria, Australia. My work is being conducted under the Design Research Institute's Affective Atlas project, whose goal is to better facilitating the creation and dissemination of tacit knowledge about national parks.
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