Posts Tagged ‘ubicomp’
The French Kitchen: task based learning in an instrumented kitchen
Posted by: clare on: October 13, 2012
I was very pleased to lead a Ubicomp’12 submission during my time with Newcastle University’s Culture Lab. Our full paper was entitled “The French Kitchen: task based learning in an instrumented kitchen”, and reflected on an evaluation of the French kitchen. The kitchen gives audio instructions in French to cooks who are learning that language. [...]
Dagstuhl Seminar on Interactions Beyond the Desktop — in depth
Posted by: clare on: September 20, 2012
I promised more detail on the Dagstuhl Seminar on Interactions Beyond the Desktop. Here goes: Monday After an introduction that pointed out this week was precious time to step back from the urgent and focus on the important, the rest of Monday went on presentations from all 42 of us! We each gave a very [...]
Dagstuhl Seminar on Interactions Beyond the Desktop — initial impressions
Posted by: clare on: September 4, 2012
That was a very intense 5 days. It turns out that what everyone told me pre-seminar — Dagstuhl Seminars are really special, you must go — was absolutely right! The place was very different to what I’m used to. Like Tiree, Dagstuhl is remote and hard to get to, which adds something to the experience [...]
Dagstuhl and Eindhoven
Posted by: clare on: August 23, 2012
I’ve been settling back into life in Southampton since last week’s move: it’s great not to be in a long-distance relationship for the first time in 20 months. I’m about to head out of town for a couple of weeks, but it’s to go and do two exciting things: Firstly, I’m delighted to have been [...]
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 [...]
KitchenCam: another Ambient Kitchen project
Posted by: clare on: August 2, 2012
This summer I had the pleasure of supervising Alex Key, a Bachelors student visiting from the University of Münster. His project involved looking at how we might auto-generate videos of cooking in the kitchen. The idea is that perhaps I want to be able to capture the record of my making a certain dish — [...]
French Kitchens
Posted by: clare on: June 10, 2012
One of my tasks before CHI involved building and delivering three portable kitchens to our partners in ECLS (Education, Communication and Languages Sciences). This was one of the final deliverables of the Language Learning in the Wild project, which led to the building and evaluation of the French Kitchen — I started at Culture Lab [...]
Culture Lab: tight knit and very focused
Posted by: clare on: May 3, 2012
I’ve been at Culture Lab for almost four months: this seems like a good juncture to reflect upon life in the lab. I did my doctorate in ECS at Southampton, and then a postdoc at the Industrial Design department of TU Eindhoven. Culture Lab is totally unlike either of those places: it’s very youthful. There’re [...]
More about those threads of work
Posted by: clare on: April 21, 2012
At the start of this month, I mused upon time management and handling multiple threads of work. Since those threads are reasonably diverse at the moment, I thought I’d share a bit more about them: There’s a lot of stuff around redesigning the Ambient Kitchen — three separate threads, I’d say: The underlying software architecture (including, [...]
More activity recognition
Posted by: clare on: April 17, 2012
Hey, remember the utensils in the Ambient Kitchen? We embed WAXs (wireless accelerometers) in them, so we can do a bit of activity recognition — that is, use the sensor data to figure out what’s going on in the kitchen. After my previous post about this, I realised there was more to tell. The main [...]
