Posted by: clare on: December 30, 2011
Two ACM things: Firstly, at some point in the last while (it’s all a bit of a blur what with Christmas, moving to England, preparing for Newcastle, etc) the DESIRE’11 proceedings became available in the ACM library. Huzzah! Secondly, Su White, Mountaz Hascoët and myself have had a WWW’12 workshop accepted: our workshop examining HCI, web and [...]
Posted by: clare on: November 1, 2011
My role of Communications Chair for the recent DESIRE’11 conference meant that the event had been on my radar for a long time before it actually happened. During DESIRE’11 itself I was still handling organisational aspects, so although I was very pleased to participate, my point of view is different to someone coming in from [...]
Posted by: clare on: October 27, 2011
I’m going to write DESIRE’11 up in the near future, but meanwhile here is a post about Marc Hassenzahl’s invited talk. It was a kick-ass keynote because a) Marc is doing awesome, timely work and b) it turns out he’s very able at communicating that work. Sweet. So: he started by showing the differences in how little boys [...]
Posted by: clare on: October 19, 2011
There are various reasons why I’ve been so quiet recently. One of them is the DESIRE’11 conference, which kicked off this week. I’m communications chair, and my duties have covered the good (working with great people), the bad (admin gets dull fast) and the ugly (Easychair :( ). This morning, I ran a tutorial at [...]