Lecture - Liveblogging

I thought I'd try something different, yay liveblogging, or quasi-live anyway

Megan and I are here, so is mitchell, no sign of pierre. Great lecture turnout today! There's about 22 people! yay!
So we're currently talking about plagarism and assignment 6. People focusing on the same ideas, collusion, things like that. Basically we've got to take it seriously and understand it, but we're not meant to panic.

And now on to assignment 6 itself.
- Deadline for the final assignment is 9:00 Monday the 7th of May.

Public Holiday on monday! So now we're moving to 9:00 TUESDAY morning. Huzzah. Not that we'll really require the extra day, but it would be nice.

oh, Format, that's a good idea :
- Responding in First Person is fine
- Context is a blog post
- Not expecting full blown academic prose ( ie, report )
- It's about "you doing a comparison with your project"

So we're able to write from our perspective, which makes is neat!

What should we look for :
- Audience Experience
- Conceptual and artistic satement
- Constraints
- Technology ( smaller part )
How does this influence our project ? Reflect about what we want to achieve and where we want to head.

"Using (y)our time wisely"
- Concerned about low lecture attendance ( :O )
- Timetabled for teamwork
- Lecturers available for feedback/Questions
- Tutors are paid to help us! excellent.

Proof of Concept
- What is required from us at the end of the semester.

Prototype has to convey the concept.

Exhibit Requirements
- Please Post to Newsgroups ( One Post Per Group )
- Physical Space Required
- Preferences for Specific location
- Any Technology Requirements
- Projector
- Phidgets, sunSPOTs, etc

List Possible Scenarios. Best case, Worst case etc.

Portfolio
- Based around description of design for ubicomp
- html
- use portfolio drive in home directory.
Criteria is still not finished, but start thinking about what is going to be put into the report.
- Extended blog is halfway point to the final portfolio.
- Report is combined with portfolio. Allows for linking, images, all sorts of fun things like that.

And that was the last slide, so I think that's it. There's a few more questions. one about the portfolio system not working, but Im pretty sure it is working - Not using the VPN perhaps ?

And that's it.
Yay liveblogging.

- Anthony

Compare and Contrast

Interactive Radio : Exploring Visitor Stories using Radio Interface
Eoin Brazil, Mikael Fernström

Although this wasn't listed in our original ideas, our project has evolved so much that almost none of the original listed ideas would be suitable for comparison.

This project allowed visotrs to explore and investigate artifacts housed within a museum, the "radio" itself stores previously recorded visitor stories, and allows for listening through the metaphor of a "1940's style radio". The repository of opinions grows over time.

This is a good candidate for conmpare and contrast as it deals with a large collection of recorded thoughts and opinions, allows for custom recordings, and uses a strong metaphor with which to recieve the information ( Radio, vs "oracle" ).

http://www.idc.ul.ie/data/publications/28.pdf

WHERE WERE YOU?!

We were asked to blog where we were the monday of the gallery excursion. I find it a bit strange that we *all* have to do this, when only 20 students said they were able to attend. It should be those 20 students, not all of us. Anyway. I wasn't one of those 20. I was working.

Personal Notes

These are just some personal notes for me, more on these later.

Usenet Oracle http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi

Tarot Cards RFID - Phidgets