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eLivingCampus wireframes and paper prototyping
Robert Fulghum famously wrote that all he really needed to know he learned in kindergarten. He meant, of course, the important stuff like sharing and not hitting, but perhaps he also meant cutting out. In the development of the eLivingCampus we’ve been doing just that with our paper based prototyping. We first develop wireframe […]
eLivingCampus Dialogue diagrams
October 21, 2008
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, […]
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Posts from ACTS: Lesley Stone – a wishlist for EfS
October 16, 2008
Dr Lesley Stone spoke about a wishlist for tertiary education for sustainability at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. Lesley is the Envrionmental Coordinator at the University of Auckland. In her presentation she explored the findings of her 2006 paper “Progress and pitfalls in the provision of tertiary education for sustainable development inNew […]
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 […]
Computing for Sustainability 
October 22, 2008
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