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“Post-sustainability” workshop at CHI
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
Arguing in a way that responding challenges my thinking
October 4, 2012
Jeffrey Bardzell makes some really interesting points in his recent discussion on the nature of peer reviewing of argument papers. I agree with his approach to reviewing essays, but that is not why I’m writing this post. Jeffrey argues that we should look beyond the usual normative criteria to judge argument/essay papers: Do I agree […]
Computing for Sustainability 
December 17, 2012
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