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
At this years open house I showcased both the LIREC project as a whole and the latest progress in the ActDresses experiment. Had a very good chat with Mats Sommarström from Celective Source about possibilities in the leisure and ‘ubiquitous’ robotics area. Came to realize that grounded life essentials and nurturing without expectations would be
A proper way of handling code nowadays would be using a repository e.g. github. The point is to store (as in backup), share the code and get it into a more social setting where it can be discussed and edited outside a particular IDE. The downside is that it is a bit of a step
We had a writers workshop today for the few of us submitting to NordiCHI this year. Got really good feedback but realized that there are so many question marks. Good and interesting data although the question is how to tackle it and weave it into the larger discussion in a super constructive way. Tomorrow and
I’ll think twice before I say that something is super cool again. And Evernote’s speech-to-text functionality is just that – super cool!