At CHI recently I met with Michael Gubbels who is a graduate student in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland. Michael and his colleagues are working on SINQ: Scientific INQuiry Learning using Social Media. This is exciting work. Promoting the process of scientific inquiry in this manner is aligned with the PISA study’s Green… [Read more…]
April 5, 2012
The potential for a real Sustainable Lens suddenly got very real. Google’s Project Glass getting real (well, real as in concept video). AR has been around for a long time, what’s exciting is the consumer focussed seamless integration. From a development perspective the tools move into the realm of App development rather than that of… [Read more…]
March 16, 2012
This week I went to a great talk by Prof Jonathan Boston on the politics of global climate change. Here are some of the slides. I have to confess that his last slide was a surprise to me. While American right-wing denials fill our media we have failed to notice that almost every other conservative… [Read more…]
March 12, 2012
Prompted by the funeral for forester and mountaineer Don Slocum who we farewelled today, I’ve been thinking about Leopold’s Land Ethic. In 1948 Aldo Leopold published the Sand County Almanac. In it he recognised that our ethics are derived from a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.… [Read more…]
May 22, 2012
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