Computing and emotions
There's a nontrivially-sized literature on this that I've got to get into, it seems; I'm reading a recent article arguing against traditional scientific, objective views of emotions-- i.e.,
Back to Heathrow
I'm off to Heathrow this morning. Decided I didn't like England after all. No, my wife is arriving today. Her flight's a couple hours late, though, so I'll
My workplace
I'm not exactly sure how much I should document life within the lab, so I'm going to err on the side of opacity rather than transparency. Still, I have to say something.
the lab at night, via flickr
An extra busy day
Turns out a second article of mine, on the role of paper spaces in collaborative and creative work, appeared in today's issue of the Parsons Journal for Information
“Thinking Big: Large Media, Creativity, and Collaboration” now available
While you can only read the first two paragraphs of my Scientific American cubesats article on their Web site, another article of mine that came out today, "Thinking
Another calmness through engagement quote
From the Dalai Lama's Twitter feed (yes, he tweets): "By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a
Starting to get busy
Last week was spent getting oriented, shaking (or drinking or sleeping) off the jet lag, and dealing with logistical stuff; now I'm finally getting down to work, inasmuch
What’s the big philosophical work on calmness?
I'm sure there has to be some 600-page book titled Calm: A Philosophical Inquiry, or something similar to scare of the casual reader, but so far I haven't
Was Weiser really wrong? Rogers on creating “engaging ubicomp experiences”
I've been reading Yvonne Rogers' 2006 article, "Moving on from Weiser's vision of of calm computing: engaging UbiComp experiences." Rogers is a professor at Open University, and a longtime
File under Saved From Myself
After 6, it seems, the only remaining snacks in the lab are Scandinavian rye crisps. (I suspect there's a late-afternoon run on all the good stuff.) Definitely a reason to get