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Pilot survey (pilot as in trial, not as in flying)
We’re piloting the NZ IT Student Learning and Careers Expectations survey (background). Supported by CITRENZ, the survey is intended to help ensure that IT graduates align with society and industry expectations. This survey is being completed by IT/computing students throughout NZ during the first weeks of study. Employers will be asked a similar set […]
Posted in: education
Thoughts for Chris’ design students visiting Paris
January 22, 2014
My friend Chris Ebbert is taking a class of UK product designers to Paris. What should they see he asks? Here are my thoughts (it was a 3k straight swim this morning so lots of time for thinking). I’m sure there are places such as product design museums or particular icons that you should have […]
Posted in: design
Why have you chosen computing?
December 3, 2013
As part of the development of the Excellence in Communications project, we’re planning an NZ-wide survey of students and industry to get a deeper understanding of IT student and industry values and educational expectations. At the beginning of 2014, CITRENZ will be undertaking a benchmark survey of all incoming IT/computing students: the “Values and Educational […]
What have we learned? A SustCHI workshop.
November 25, 2013
The SIGCHI HCI & Sustainability Community will host a workshop as part of CHI 2014, the annual Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. This year’s conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, 26 Apr–1 May. The workshop will be held on either 26 Apr or 27 Apr. Our one-day workshop will gather new […]
Posted in: CHI
Hopeful tourism computing?
November 21, 2013
A couple of weeks a ago I interviewed Tess Brosnan, a film maker who wanted to talk about links between citizen science and hopeful tourism. This led me to read Annette Pritchard, Nigel Morgan and Irena Ateljevic’s “Hopeful tourism: A new transformative perspective” (pdf). I found myself reading while mentally replacing “tourism” with “computing”. For […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Computing for Sustainability 
February 3, 2014
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