Currently viewing the category: "ubicomp"

Reframing Space for Ubiquitous Computing

On October 1, 2013

My PhD thesis is now available as a free PDF download (28mb), a free eBook and a print-on-demand book. 

With sufficient space between me and the end of the PhD process, I feel like it’s time to share the fruits of 3.5 years with readers of this blog. Whilst there’s still much within the […]

Continue Reading →

Head down

On February 28, 2012

This is a quick post to break the drought here, and to let the world know that I have been working. The above picture is from Scrivener – my writing program of choice – showing the word target for my literature review. Writing this has been enjoyable so far (sort of), and has […]

Continue Reading →

The park as a design space

On November 10, 2011

My case study site is Wilson’s Promontory, a national park situated in the rural south east of Victoria, Australia. Whilst my thesis will broadly discuss the roll of environmental understanding (from a cultural geography perspective) in the design of technology for use in these types of settings, the “practical problem” I’m faced with is […]

Continue Reading →

Personal Geographies

On June 20, 2011

Personal geographies is a term I’ve been using in (thus far private) writing and preliminary analysis of diary studies and interviews I’ve conducted with park rangers. The above picture is the result of combining a particular kind of personal geography – jogging trails through New York city. It’s also an increasingly common type of visualisation; […]

Continue Reading →

Code/Space

On February 22, 2011

Code/Space is a body of research that looks at the creation of space through technology. Similarly, it looks at how technology is transforming the relationships people have with places, such that traditional separations of virtuality and reality may no longer be necessary.

It’s another thread of ubicomp research, except this time with […]

Continue Reading →

Virtual Spaces

On February 9, 2011

One of my favourite blogs at the moment is UrbanTick, run out of University College London. It’s a good mix of technology, architecture, environments and of course, people. It particular its a great source of geographical visualisations: representations that sit at the intersection of all these things.

Visual Cities is my latest […]

Continue Reading →

Augmenting the new with the old

On November 20, 2010

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. […]

Continue Reading →