Digital Human BBC Radio 4
Quick post on the BBC Radio 4 Digital Human programme produced by Peter McManus and presented by Aleks Krotoski. I was invited to talk about the old Shelflife / Remember Me / Tales of Things project for Oxfam in the context of value: “When almost anything we want is available to buy at the click of […]
Shaping Things
Transposition and Mutation During the Edinburgh International Festival, August 2013, we ran two interlinked events to stimulate conversation and practice about the use of 3D printers and the role of digital and social systems. Part 1 consisted of a game of 3D Chinese Whispers that took place over 12 days between students of an Edinburgh […]
Things move people around
So this is interesting for Internet of Things experiences. Objects telling us to where they want to go… Part of the Tourism Work Package led by Janet Dickinson and Julia Hibbert from Bournemouth University has involved working with visitors to the Tom’s Field campsite in Purbeck. The visitors have been using the Sixth Sense Tourism app for iPhones […]
MapLocal Community Mapping
Last year and into this year I was involved in an AHRC Connected Communities project led by Phil Jones with Colin Lorne and Antonia Layard (University of Birmingham) in which we designed an Android app that allowed residents of communities to gather information about their neighbourhoods. The app was developed by Chris Blunt (Plymouth Software) […]