Interrelativity

Category: Research

  • UbiComp 2008: Call for Papers, Notes and Workshops (deadline: April 4)

    The Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2008) will be held 21-24 September 2008 in Seoul, South Korea: UbiComp 2008 welcomes original, high-quality research contributions that advance the state of the art in the design, development, deployment, evaluation and understanding of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) systems. Ubicomp is an interdisciplinary field of study that includes…

  • Music and Personality: Reflective and Complex

    As part of my ongoing personal and professional re-engagement with music (since the initiation of my instigation at MyStrands), and renewed exploration of how tastes in music and other media can offer new opportunities for engagement marketing, I was reading up on some of the work by Peter Jason Rentfrow and Sam Gosling on music…

  • Content-centered Conversations: The Pew Internet Report on Teens and Social Media

    I finally read the recent Pew Internet & American Life Project report on Teens and Social Media. Among the most interesting findings, for me, were the correlation between the creation of content (online stories, photos, videos) and conversations about that content, and the connections between connecting online and connecting offline. As I'd noted with another…

  • Unconcerned About Privacy: The Pew Internet Report on Digital Footprints

    The recent report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project on "Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency" presents some interesting statistics and analysis regarding people’s awareness and use of digital information about themselves and others on the Internet (their "digital footprints"). The most interesting result, to me, was…

  • Three month update on my elbow Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment

    On Monday, I had a followup visit with Dr. Mishra to evaluate and discuss progress and prospects for the restored health of my right elbow, three months after my treatment with Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP). One week after treatment, things had gotten worse (though, as Dr. Mishra had warned, this is often the case shortly…

  • A New Generation of Proactive Displays

    We launched our new proactive display application at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto two weeks ago. The application – provisionally called the Context, Content and Community Collage – situates online content in a shared physical context to foster a greater sense of community, representing a convergence of the core themes of our Context, Content and…

  • Standing on Boxes: Signaling Costs and Benefits in Online and Offline Social Networks (Judith Donath at C&T 2007)

    The highlight of the recent Communities and Technologies Conference (C&T 2007) – for me – was Judith Donath‘s keynote on "Agents and Faces: The Reliability of Online Signals" (based on her course – and forthcoming book – on Signals, Truth and Design). I’d posted a relatively tiny summary of an abbreviated glimpse she’d offered in…

  • Communities & Technologies Conference (C&T 2007): Socializing and Sociologizing on the Web

    The 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2007) – or cct2007, on Flickr and Slideshare – was held at Michigan State University two weeks ago. [Update: proceedings are now online.] Among the high order bits for me were the growing trend in analyzing data from normal use of large-scale social networking services (vs.…

  • Pervasive 2007: Approaching Everywhere, Everyone and Everything

    I just attended my first International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2007), and I have to agree with many of my friends who have been to both Pervasive and UbiComp that the conferences are very similar, differing primarily with respect to the time of year they are convened. Both focus on computing technology as it…

  • Questioning Questioning: The Performative and Informative Aspects of Public Inquiry

    During the CHI 2007 conference last week, I asked a number of questions after a number of presentations during a number of sessions (two examples of which are shown in the photos on the left from Marc Davis’ Flickr stream). I usually find it very challenging to muster the gumption to walk up to the…