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is the Welsh coast fractal?
In my earlier post ‘measuring it out‘, I wondered how fractal the Welsh coast is. Shortly after writing ‘measuring it out’, I found a GPX file for the Welsh Coastal path at the Long Distance Walkers...
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Workflowy as CMS
Although this is a WordPress blog, the bookshelf section I added last week is generated from a Workflowy list that Fiona created. Now Workflowy is a collaborative list-making web application, not a CMS...
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roots – how do we see ourselves spatially
I was looking through my blog and came upon the following post from 2011, which I’d forgotten about. It seemed particularly relevant given my focus on both local maps and more personal maps such as...
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flowing cities – beauty in bits and buildings
I have written quite a lot about the use of local maps that emphasise the identity of an individual or of a place. However, there are also incredibly creative uses of maps that are more in the...
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talking about Wales from south to north
I’m heading down south, for last trip before the walk, taking in five talks about the walk, from Southampton to Aberdeen, with Birmingham, Brunel and Birmingham between! I’ve also got meetings...
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award for art of cartography
The Ordnance Survey in collaboration with the British Cartography Society, have announced an award, the OS OpenData award, for work that spans art and cartography, using the hard data supplied in OS...
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February travels
I am back at home now after two weeks travelling up and down the country (see talking about Wales from south to north). Gave five talks, visited seven cities in three countries; some fantastic...
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day 11 – in Paris and wishing I were in Wales
Yesterday had great day at the GeoHCI workshop, lots about mobile maps, and sense of place. I talked a bit about Frasan, the mobile app in Tiree and a bit about Wales walk including the Monmouth...
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Reflections on ‘Making There’, Bidwell and Browning
I have just read Nic Bidwell and David Browning’s paper “Making There: Methods To Uncover Egocentric Experience in a Dialogic of Natural Places” (OZCHI ’06, pp.229-236, doi: 10.1145/1228175.1228216)....
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Walking in the US: Technology on the Trail
A couple of weeks ago I was in Blacksburg, Virginia for a workshop called “Technology on the Trail“. CHCI, the Centre for Human Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech have an initiative of the same name...
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Grounding walking
The latest paper based on Alan Walks Wales data has been published in Interacting with Computers at Oxford University Press. The paper Walking: A Grounded Theory of Social Engagement and Experience is...
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Talking about (poor) connectivity at ITA17
I just got back from a trip to Glyndwr University in Wrexham where I gave a keynote talk “Communicating in Wales: design and architecture for mobile applications over poor connectivity” at the Internet...
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roots – how do we see ourselves spatially
I was looking through my blog and came upon the following post from 2011, which I’d forgotten about. It seemed particularly relevant given my focus on both local maps and more personal maps such as...
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flowing cities – beauty in bits and buildings
I have written quite a lot about the use of local maps that emphasise the identity of an individual or of a place. However, there are also incredibly creative uses of maps that are more in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
talking about Wales from south to north
I’m heading down south, for last trip before the walk, taking in five talks about the walk, from Southampton to Aberdeen, with Birmingham, Brunel and Birmingham between! I’ve also got meetings...
View ArticleClik here to view.
award for art of cartography
The Ordnance Survey in collaboration with the British Cartography Society, have announced an award, the OS OpenData award, for work that spans art and cartography, using the hard data supplied in OS...
View ArticleClik here to view.
February travels
I am back at home now after two weeks travelling up and down the country (see talking about Wales from south to north). Gave five talks, visited seven cities in three countries; some fantastic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
day 11 – in Paris and wishing I were in Wales
Yesterday had a great day at the GeoHCI workshop, lots about mobile maps, and sense of place. I talked a bit about Frasan, the mobile app in Tiree and a bit about the Wales walk including the Monmouth...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reflections on ‘Making There’, Bidwell and Browning
I have just read Nic Bidwell and David Browning’s paper “Making There: Methods To Uncover Egocentric Experience in a Dialogic of Natural Places” (OZCHI ’06, pp.229-236, doi: 10.1145/1228175.1228216)....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Walking in the US: Technology on the Trail
A couple of weeks ago I was in Blacksburg, Virginia for a workshop called “Technology on the Trail“. CHCI, the Centre for Human Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech have an initiative of the same name...
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