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Scaling up trajectories?
I’m thinking about the trajectory work of Steve Benford (Yes, I know I’ve been doing this for a while). Trajectories offer a way of thinking about the design of extended user experiences. I’m wondering if we can scale that up for thinking about the role of computing in societal change. Last week we interviewed Hordur […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, HCI
Apples for the students? Beyond good or evil
February 18, 2013
We’ve got a new Mac suite at work. We intend to use it for teaching operating systems, networks etc, as well as a platform for developing for the iOS. On our department facebook page an interesting debate has been raging, started by the following question: I’d like to know (and I know of others who […]
Permageekery
January 28, 2013
Over the summer we interviewed Danyl Strype on Sustainable Lens. Active in both the Permaculture in New Zealand and the creative commons movements, Danyl describes himself as a permageek. We spent an enjoyable hour wallowing in sustainable IT (without mentioning virtualisation) – here’s the pod.
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
“Post-sustainability” workshop at CHI
December 17, 2012
The CHI sustainability community will be hosting a workshop on ‘Post-Sustainability’ as part of CHI 2013: Changing Perspectives, the annual ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Paris, France (27 April – 2 May 2013). The workshop will be held on a single day prior to the start of the main conference, […]
Posted in: CHI, Computing for Sustainability
EcoExplore citizen science app framework
November 21, 2012
Another successful capstone project, EcoExplore is a flexible and scalable framework built to be a foundation for mobile applications that aim to engage members of the public in the exploration of the natural environments of New Zealand, and enable sharing of their discoveries. The NZ Marine Metre Squared application is an implementation of the EcoExplore […]
Posted in: Bachelor of Information Technology
Panda Island
November 21, 2012
Otago Polytechnic’s Bachelor of Information Technology capstone project sees groups of students undertaking year long “real projects for real clients”. Panda Island is a recently completed project. The Peace Foundation has identified a need for an interactive tool to complement their Cool Schools programme, which is aimed at primary school students to learn skills required […]
Posted in: Bachelor of Information Technology, Otago Polytechnic
FarmBase
November 21, 2012
Here’s one of our recently completed capstone projects. The farm environmental accreditation process is a time consuming, costly and document-laden endeavour. FarmBase enables efficient management and auditing by providing agribusiness and environmental data in an integrated system (for Ian Brown Consulting).
Posted in: Bachelor of Information Technology
March 31, 2013
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