Another thing I'm interested in better understanding the relationship between contemplation or reflection, and materials. Landscape architects have articulated principles for designing restorative or contemplative spaces (Bianca Moura
How does the collective exercise of contemplative practices improve individual abilities? I need to figure this out. When I talk to people here in the lab, words like "contemplation" and "meditation" sound
Since I'm a fan of self-experimentation (not only does the method have some very interesting advocates, it's one that I've used in my own program of weight loss),
Having been writing away this past week, I've not been updating, but I wanted to mention this excellent piece by Cornell computer science professor Phoebe Sengers, "What I
Monday, we got up early to take the kids to the airport. The bus ride from Cambridge to Heathrow is over two hours, so naturally my son fell
I've been working this week on the first of the long contemplative computing essays, and so far I think it's gone pretty well. The kids left on Monday,
Instinct says there's a link I can make between the embodied cognition literature (exemplified for me by the work of Andy Clark) and firsthand accounts of distraction, partial
Not much blogging the next couple days, as I'm working on an actual article. More later.
A couple weeks ago, during a visit to a wonderful little bookshop in Ely, I picked up a copy of Virigina Woolf's A Room of One's Own. My