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eLivingCampus Dialogue diagrams
The Agile Development Framework we’re following for the development of the eLivingCampus is very much user focussed. We’ve just spent a few days developing dialogue diagrams that explore possible flows of interaction. The basis for this process is an analysis of each task (person interacting with a functional requirement = a task). I think […]
The risk of ignoring them?
October 20, 2008
Dr Colin Boswell, my colleague at NACCQ, sends me nuggets. This time he’s sent news of a new report from Gartner “Green IT falls off the agenda“. ZDnet reports “The report lists the top 10 strategic technologies as follows, with green IT slipping from first position in the previous list, released in late 2007, […]
The Wall at Te Papa
October 16, 2008
There’s a great new interactive exhibit at Te Papa. The Wall is part of a big new development “Our Space”. I stood and watched people interacting with the wall for ages. Much of the time they were playing with the technology but unconciously perhaps they’re telling the story of New Zealand(ers). It’s not […]
Muller and Hatch, orators and entrepreneurs
October 12, 2008
My friend Logan Muller is a brilliant speaker. He uses appreciative inquiry to move people to a position of wanting to do something to improve the world. As part of this he uses a device of simultaneously looking forward and back. To summarise (and without the eloquence or passion), in 30 years […]
Posts from ACTS: David Thompson on 3D sustainability
October 7, 2008
David Thompson spoke about 3D sustainability at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. He got a mixed reception. Some hadn’t seen SecondLife before and were impressed. Others gave him quite a hard time. They picked up on his “gee, second life is cool, you should use it for sustainability” and probed […]
October 21, 2008
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