‘Diary’ Category

Affinity Diagrams

  • August 19th, 2010
  • Posted in Diary

I know I should be writing more right now, but I’m excited to show the culmination of a lot of work… After many hours of watching user testing videos, and transcribing almost all of the words that were said, I then compiled the main points and highlights onto colored post-it notes, one color for each [ READ MORE ]

Deadline approaching…

  • August 7th, 2010
  • Posted in Diary

Yes, this site is still alive… I am frantically writing and digesting testing videos at the moment, preparing to submit my final thesis paper in three weeks. More updates soon&#[ READ MORE ]

Test #3 Dropoff

  • April 24th, 2010
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Friday, April 23rd, 1pm Dropped off cube for Test #3 User: Unsworn Industries[ READ MORE ]

Physical + Virtual = SUI

  • April 22nd, 2010
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If you have agreed to test my SUI Cube prototype, please DO NOT continue to read this blog! …until after you have been interviewed. I am in the middle of writing, pure thick thesis writing! It is much more difficult than it sounds. “Why a SUI?” A question I am asked often, and have always [ READ MORE ]

Test #2 Dropoff

  • April 21st, 2010
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Wednesday, April 21th, 8:30am Dropped off cube for Test #2 User: Apokalyps Labotek[ READ MORE ]

Test #1 Dropoff

  • April 20th, 2010
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2pm Dropped off cube for Test #1 User: Do-Fi[ READ MORE ]

Day 120

  • April 19th, 2010
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Only 5 weeks left in the thesis and only 1 week until I hand in my midway progress! This week’s activities: With 2 cubes now complete, I am delivering them to local designers to test their interaction and potential future use. Working on interviewing techniques and questions that I will be asking. I’m video recording [ READ MORE ]

No One Is Online

  • March 22nd, 2010
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…and it’s so peaceful&#[ READ MORE ]

Day 87

  • March 17th, 2010
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The pieces are coming together… so I will now take a break! Well, not really. I will take a break from the research and attempt to use the Kicad schematic software to document the electronics schematic for the TRKBRD. I am putting together full documentation of the TRKBRD design for the Computer Science professor in [ READ MORE ]

Research Visualization Alpha

  • March 15th, 2010
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At this point I have read many research articles, and processed 12 of them into the blog to visualization what I’ve learned from each one. Each article is summarized, tagged for the tag cloud, and the thoughts each one provoked are summarized too. But now what? The scientific side of me curiously wants to organize [ READ MORE ]

TODAY IS DAY 5 OF JOB SEARCH

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