I finally made up my mind and got myself a pair of barefoot running shoes. It was a nice experience trying them out in the outdoor sports shop. It immediately felt right and for a second the social awkwardness didn’t exist. The finger socks felt kind of interesting, and when I bought a few pairs […]
Exploring the Shadows Läs mer »
Yesterday was day zero in terms of doing any kind of directed effort regarding my own bodily physical activities. I am interested in how technology could subtly encourage overcoming this threshold. What is needed for someone (like myself) to take the step and go out and take a fast walk/jogging/running session? Anyway, I put on
Today we got the Oculus Rift dev kit delivered to us at Mobile Life @ SICS. I met Thomas in the elevator and got updated on the fact that there were quite a bit of research in the VR area carried out at SICS in the 90’s. He would go and look for some old
Oculus Rift Unboxing Läs mer »
Me and sports have a platonic relationship. We don’t cross path that often and it was quite a long time since I put on my jogging shoes. Anyway, after talking to Jordi last week about running barefoot, I felt that there is an opening to how to approach the concept of sports without entering it
From Tinkering to Sports Läs mer »
The final seminar will take place in two weeks from now. I’m gonna need a long vacation this summer, but there is much that has to be done before that. We need to find an opponent for the dissertation, a committee and not the least get the text ready for print in early June. Today
Preparing for my Final Seminar Läs mer »
Reading about the recent events concerning Aaron Swartz, and how an industry, organization or even government can dehumanize someone, made me think about an old rule of thumb that I have been pondering. We cannot ever allow organizations to be the opponent in cases like this. Reading Lessig’s view of what happened made me both
This summer we wrapped up our LIREC project. Almost four and a half year long it was very exiting to see it though. Many studies were made during the spring, thus we will have plenty of material to reflect upon, even afterwards. For myself it marks the end of European projects for this time around
This years CHI was my third in this series. And it was in my view the best one yet. It had all the elements that make a top-notch conference interesting: Esteemed seniors getting upset over their prodigy’s rather provocative way of conducting research, A paper on “if industrialism never happened” Steampunk awesomeness, my (and freshly