Cultural Probes

I ran a session on cultural probes with Caroline Claisse last week with some interesting outcomes. My part was to Continue reading →

Social Network Analysis

We invited the brilliant Elisa Bellotti from The Mitchell Centre in Manchester to talk to us about social network analysis. Their work is Continue reading →

Designing with people

Design research is usually understood to be about developing some kind of new artefact. These artefacts can be objects like Continue reading →

Metaphor-ology

Much of what designers do involves generating and deploying metaphors. The way we make sense of the world around us Continue reading →

Future Vis

In Paris last Sunday for IEEEVIS, the main international gathering for academics working in the area of data visualisation. The field is dominated Continue reading →

Involving other people

I’ll be presenting at the PhD by Design conference this week at Goldsmiths. I’m in a strand called ‘How to Continue reading →

Helsinki

In Helsinki this week for NordiCHI where I participated in a Doctoral Consortium run by Kari Kuuttii and Gilbert Cockton two Continue reading →

Bad infinity

The idea of an endless universe is profoundly disorienting because infinite things are confusing. It seems fair to say that Continue reading →