Archive for September, 2013

Breakfast ‘things’

Breakfast ‘things’

Crude network of objects and services connected during a Speed family week day breakfast. Surprisingly limited, but then we have to be out and on the road quite quickly. I expect that weekends would be much more complex… PDF here


7-9pm

7-9pm

6.45 Steph leaves to the train station to go out for a drink with a friend in town, leaving me with my son (Eric 10), his friend who is sleeping over for a treat (Ollie 10), and my daughter (Mary 7). Eric and Ollie and playing out the front with Nerf guns, armed and completely […]


Showertime

Showertime

Shower routine… Auto-ethnography of my shower routine for the HAT project   1. Get the shower running. It’s a Mira shower running from a combi boiler downstairs in the kitchen so it takes approx 2 mins to get up to heat. It’s a nice simple shower, possibly the best I’ve ever had – it has […]


From Wolpertingers to Co-Things

From Wolpertingers to Co-Things

The first in the series of Design Informatics Research Talks is by me…! From Wolpertingers to Co-Things Chris Speed, School of Design Thursday 19th September 4pm T-Room, 1st Floor Evo House This presentation will use case studies from recent RCUK funded projects to explore the shifting role of artefacts within social networks. These include: collaborative […]


Design Informatics Research Talks

Design Informatics Research Talks

The Design Informatics team are pleased to invite you to the Research Seminar programme for this semester. You will see from the poster that we have a mix of Intra-talks from members of the Schools of Design and School of Informatics, and Extra-Talks from like-minded folk from across the UK. We have scheduled the Intra-Talks on Thursday afternoons […]