Posts Tagged ‘beginnings’
IT Innovation
Posted by: clare on: April 17, 2013
I haven’t written for just over a month. That’s partly due to busy weekends, but partly because I’ve been busy with a new job! I’ve been getting stuck into work at the IT Innovation Centre (aka IT Innovation), an applied research centre that’s part of Electronics & Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Unlike the [...]
SoFWIReD launch
Posted by: clare on: November 19, 2012
Today was pretty neat, as it brought the launch of SoFWIReD, Southampton Fraunhofer Web Science, Internet Research & Development. Let me quote them: The project goal is to develop a comprehensive, interoperable platform for data and knowledge driven processing of open data and to investigate aspects of Collective Intelligence. The insight generated in the project [...]
In praise of WAIS
Posted by: clare on: September 26, 2012
There are a few things queued up in my draft blog posts, but I wanted to mention this while it’s fresh in my mind: I’ve spent a few days in WAIS in the last week or so, and in a nutshell it’s been lovely. I guess it’s inevitable that having spent 8 years with ECS [...]
Digital Interaction at Culture Lab
Posted by: clare on: August 7, 2012
So, I have some news — eight months after rocking up to Newcastle University, I’m returning to the south of England. I’m looking forward to the new things ahead, but I remain inspired by the breadth and quality of the work that goes on here in Newcastle. I’d like to illustrate what I mean: A week or [...]
The Research-Practice Interaction SIGCHI Community
Posted by: clare on: June 5, 2012
I attended the CHI workshop on Theories Behind UX Research and How They are Used in Practice (my position paper concerned my use of seven theoretical frameworks in my doctoral research): it was fantastic. Why I care about this topic I’m an academic, not a practitioner — yet I care about how academic work is applied in [...]
A return to English culture
Posted by: clare on: February 17, 2012
My last couple of posts touched on the Culture Lab and the Kitchen project, but not on what it’s like to return to one’s home country after living elsewhere. It’s a strange experience. It was a little odd for me to process, in a sense. I returned right before Christmas and dived straight into seeing [...]
The EuroKitchen
Posted by: clare on: February 13, 2012
My last post opened with my saying how I couldn’t believe I’d already spent four days at Culture Lab… now it’s been four weeks. Blimey. It’s probably about time I devoted a little space to explaining my work. One of the stars of the Culture Lab, certainly when people visit and want to see demos, is [...]
First week at Culture Lab
Posted by: clare on: January 19, 2012
I really can’t believe I’ve already spent four days in the Culture Lab (where I’m now digitally present as well as physically!) — it’s gone by in a blur. I s’pose part of that’s down to the whirl of impressions: new people, new projects, new technology, not to mention a whole new town and the unsurprising plethora [...]
Next up: Newcastle
Posted by: clare on: December 21, 2011
My contract at TU/e officially finishes ten days from now, on 31 December, but yesterday was my last day in the office. I remain utterly weirded out by quite how quickly this year went: it feels like I’ve been here maybe three or four months, not a year. I’ve had a week full of goodbyes. [...]
