I’ve been doing a bit of work around dashboards at Rattle. Despite the interest in dashboards there’s precious little in the way of analysis of existing dashboards, for example car dashboards and how their patterns are designed for ‘blink’ interpretation and of course pretending. However, I did come across this in the Nissan GT-R, a [...]
Tagged: dashboard
This post kinda came out of a presentation I gave at bathcamp and the previous post on The Cost of Knowledge. That presentation was about how the domain of formal knowledge as presented by academic publications was needlessly costing us as taxpayers millions of pounds a year *and* yet still kept this ‘knowledge’ under copyright [...]
Tagged: technology socialstudyoftechnology socialresearch designresearch
There has been lots written about knowledge in recent times. How the interenet has made knowledge ‘open’ and how social media is enabling enterprises and individuals to share information cost effectively, reducing the trasncation cost of communicating and socialising to really low levels. And we’ve had the eLearning industry come and (nearly, hopefully, go) and [...]
Simon has linked to a couple of papers on materiality in social research that he has written [in partnership with Simon Blyth of Unilever] that are well worth reading. Most stuff around Actor Network Theory [ANT] doesn’t seem that helpful to the average researcher doing research, in fact most Social Science ‘theory’ seems elitist and [...]
Categories: research
Not the snappiest of titles and this isn’t the most lucid of posts, it’s more a half-baked brain dump. Never-mind. So, of late I’ve been trying to articulate what the new media landscape looks like and how it ‘works’, to a largely lay audience. It’s hard to convey complex things simply which is perhaps why [...]
Categories: research,socialsoftware,society,software
"… with a view to informing decisions and taking action." Maps are perhaps the oldest and best forms of visualising data. Met up with Danny Dorling last night, Professor Danny Dorling to you, master of maps which actually kind of underplays the incredibly important role he has in defining social policy, especially in the UK. [...]
I’ve taken a few cabs lately and all have had the tom tom. I can see why they’d want to employ such a relatively cheap device to reduce the ‘risk’ of their knowledge being exposed. But what has sat nav technology done to the kudos of the taxi driver in exposing their uncertainty? What has [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I’ve quickly tried to map some of the dynamics of different ‘community’ mechanisms, partly inspired by Tom’s Model for Mapping Group Activity. It’s basically aimed at clients and intended as a basis for developing [...]
Categories: media,research,socialsoftware
I’ve been prompted to look at the common loo lately, mainly because of some client work. But loo’s have been front of mind recently because I’ve also been looking at public, private and intimate spaces for some other research and discovered that many people value the bathroom / toilet space as somehow sacred – it [...]
Tagged: toilet design research
Link: Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Growing up with the wired generation. Some choice quotes from a Guardian article based on an MTV report: One in three children who use the internet makes friends online. Children in the UK aged between 10 and 19 own approximately 7.5m mobile phones, on which they send many [...]
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