Last night, I worked on an SVG file that Caitlin Kelleher had created with Inkscape (for the cover of the proceedings of VL/HCC 2011). I also used Inkscape, but it took a few tricks on my Mac to get it to work properly. I wanted to use Helvetica Neue for all of the text, but …
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Steve Jobs presents plans for Apple’s new campus
Just one day after his keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs made an appearance last night at the Cupertino City Council to present the company’s plans for a new campus in Cupertino, on the old Hewlett-Packard site. It essentially consists of one giant building shaped like a doughnut that will hold 12,000 people. …
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CHI 2011 Tweets: May 12–14
Buxton: Jobs revived Apple with people already employed there, such as Jonathan Ives. The culture needed changing, not the people. Gerken et al present method called Concept Maps to elicit developer’s mental model of API. A related resource: apiusability.org Missed Wrangler (creating data transformation scripts interactively), but saw Jeff Heer’s BayCHI talk on it. Good …
CHI 2011 Tweets: May 11
Saw and enjoyed last 3 papers of Photo Sharing session, especially Jones and O’Neill on relationship of photo metadata and sharing Will definitely discuss web credibility papers back at work. Need to read other 2 papers in that session. Not tweeting much during CHI 2011 itself: the wi-fi is totally overloaded so I can’t connect …
CHI 2011 Tweets: May 10
Freed looks like an interesting system for creating multiple views of a collection of digital objects (Mendels et al) Odom et al: great discussion on the relationship of physical and virtual possessions, including metadata and perceived value
CHI 2011 Tweets: May 9
Enjoyed talk by Leah Findlater on non-parametric factorial analysis techniques. Just the right depth for a CHI talk. Didn’t go to many talks today at CHI 2011, a lot of schmoozing instead. Also, I must be getting old, greasy food getting to me.
CHI 2011 Tweets: May 8
Here are my Twitter posts on the first day of my trip to CHI 2011, which was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. At SFO Terminal 3. Longest security line I’ve seen in years. I better make my flight, which leaves in 1 hour. @tsatracker SFO Terminal 3 economy security: 24 minute wait At YVR …
Twitter highlights: May 1–7, 2011
James Landay: “Nice profile of Scott Klemmer’s work in Technology Review: Tools for Better Web Design” Watch President Obama announce the death of Osama bin Laden: MSNBC [May 1] Osama’s death have prompted huge crowds to gather at World Trade Ctr. (Wall Street Journal) Hard to believe I was there <36 hrs ago. Sadat Shami: …
Twitter highlights of my trip to New York: April 23–30, 2011
Saturday, April 23 When setting your alarm for a morning flight, make sure it’s set for AM, not PM. Parked in short term and just made it. Don’t remember so many NYC subway service notices, but managed to get to the hotel anyway. Late night pizza nearby for dinner. Sunday, April 24 For brunch, meeting …
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Twitter highlights: April 24–30, 2011
Thou Shalt Not Be Colloquial: why the King James Bible endures (New York Times) Sadat Shami: “Awesome overview of the New York Times’ R&D Lab’s Project Cascade – a tool to explore the life stories in social spaces” (Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard) @StartupJesus: “Googling ‘Torture + Friday’ used to return hits about Good Friday, …