Writing Archive

Social Applications Development Update

(This post is an updated version of one we posted on MSDN last September) With consumer uptake of smartphone platforms growing exponentially, particularly for accessing social media, news, streaming media and games through the lens of ‘mobile apps’, the LiSC team felt  it was time to overhaul the ‘Mobile and Distributed Computing’ module that had [...]

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Persuasion Invasion – Using Facebook for Behavioural Change

An article we wrote for a special edition of UX magazine under the theme of ‘Designing for Social Change’ was published late last year – we only just discovered it! Click the image below to download a copy of the article. Look out for another article we are currently writing up for Carbon Management Journal on [...]

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KillaWhats update

With our Killawhats project having it’s own site  for project reporting purposes over @ killawhats.co.uk, we thought it would be best to do an aggregated update post here every month on how the project is progressing. We know what its like to try keep up with loads of different projects across different channels! Bit of background [...]

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Notes on Birmingham Household Energy Seminar

I recently attended a one day international seminar on ‘Household Energy Consumption, Technology and Efficiency’ where I was invited to do a talk around my HCI focused research in designing technology-supported household energy interventions. The event was held at the University of Birmingham’s European Research Institute. Invited speakers are listed here with abstracts of their [...]

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