Writing Archive

Shaun’s CHI 2011 round-up

My own CHI experiences this (and every) year are probably best represented by my Twitter feed but I’ll try and summarise one or two highlights looking back. Firstly I had a great time pre-CHI in Calgary hosted by my friend Ehud Sharlin – the work in the interaction lab there was really inspiring – and the [...]

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Ben’s CHI 2011 Roundup

Following on from Conor’s post, here’s some quick comments about my experience at CHI. This is a looong post so bear with me! CHI is a big conference and there is a *lot* to see. One of the benefits of having several people attend is that we collectively get a lot more out of the [...]

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Conors CHI 2011 round-up

I think I’ve just about recovered from this years CHI conference! A few of us who went to the conference are going to summarise what we saw – both in terms of the talks and other events. This year the organisers chose to focus on a number of themes that they hadn’t paid a lot [...]

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Feckr! The Game for Closet Sociopaths at CHI2011

Oh crap, here we go again! Feckr is an Android application that allows you to secretly “tag” people with messages. Tags are anonymous, permanent and public – every Feckr player can see all the tags for people around them. Unless they also play Feckr, your victims will never know what you really think of them. [...]

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