Just before Christmas I was interviewed for an article in The Economist which was about pedestrian movement in cities. As it happens, my section ended up on the cutting room floor: c’est la vie. However, parts of it have just been recycled as a blog article instead.
Looks like I’m off down to London this week to talk about how unusable Parliament Square is for people! This was in response to an earlier piece on Radio 4 about ten days ago about a recent report by the Hansard Society, and now I’m going to be interviewed for a follow-up piece. So, I’m busy doing some quick spatial-visual analyses of Parliament Square and environs so that I will have something intelligent to say. I’ll post a nice image or two on the blog when I have some I’m happy with. (And more, later, on the interview of course)
Working on paper about iPfad and Ruth found this – sounds useful for some ones research.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/work-observer/id456659118?mt=8
The Work Activity Observer App helps an observer collect interaction data over time among people and/or the artifacts people use. It can be used to capture social interactions such as face-to-face discussions to support social network analysis as well as socio-technical system interactions such as how people use and interact with technology and other artifacts in their environment to complete an activity. The data collected records the duration and agents (people or artifact) involved, the type of link, and session notes. The output is a Comma Separated Value (CSV) format and can be exported from the iPad for statistical analysis or social network analysis.
sheep
Some more experiments on future user interfaces.
I am gearing up to give a plenary talk at this year’s space syntax symposium which is taking place in Santiago, Chile. However, I am in Hexham, Northumberland today. Luckily, I am jointly giving the talk along with Christoph Hoelscher, he is physically there and I will be attempting to join in via Skype!
Some sections of my talk I’ve Pre-recorded in case of Skype problems:
Here is a short movie on our new iPfad App (written by sheep)!
And here is one on the wayfinding routes we used to conduct experiments in, in Seattle Public Library:
I hope the talk goes ok and technology holds up!!!
Its a new year and this is our new look. Keep an eye out for more news from the purehands.