Ethnography and the Bleedy Edge: How to Deal With Useless People
In an ideal world, we would only work with people we wanted to work with. Teams would be perfectly composed of people with complementary skillsets and compatible personalities. Everyone would … Continue reading
Ethnography and The Bleedy Edge: Agile Deliverable Production and the Death of Perfectionism
Perfectionism is a luxury a design ethnographer cannot afford. Perfectionism paves the way to design ethnographer hell. Here’s how to avoid it.
Great Idea: Genetic Algorithms for Recipes
I actually think a genetic algorithm for recipes is BRILLIANT, and I think I have figured out how to implement it, relatively simply (read: ghetto-rig it). Now, I don’t think … Continue reading
Field Notes: Microwaveability QMB Staff Lounge Observations
On Thursday from 12 pm to 1:30 pm, I observed various individuals interacting with the microwave in the staff lounge in the Queen Mother Building on the University of Dundee … Continue reading
Seeking Feedback on Microwave Prototypes
We are down to the last stretch for our HCI project redesigning the microwave for universal accessibility without relying on language. Here are two of our most recent prototypes! Here’s … Continue reading
Field Note Experimentation
The least enjoyable part of being an ethnographer, my class mates and I have discovered, may be the writing up of field notes. The notes we take in the field, … Continue reading
Online Identity Management, Part II
Several months ago, I started asking myself some serious questions about the way I manage my online identity. I wrote about some of the things I was considering in Online … Continue reading
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