a slower rate of babble
Apr. 27th, 2006 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaeclecticI think my posting rate has slowed a titch, but I'm still having a great time here. One more session and the closing plenary to go...
Sadly, I seem to be coming down with a chest cold, which may lessen my enjoyment of my free day in Montreal tomorrow. I just hope I'm over the worst of it before visiting my 81yo Dad on Sunday.
Let's see, what have I done since updating last?
- Did get a good night's sleep, yay!
- Went to a panel discussion that was more or less "applying HCI to big significant problems, rather than little artificial lab situations", e.g. on the one hand, preventing auto accidents, and using robots to search for disaster victims, and on the other hand, designing systems to support teams that are only partly co-located, and examining laptop usage in meetings in the context of research on conversational patterns when one party is using technology. Strangely enough, there were actually some themes across these quite disparate presentations, e.g. needing to model expected behavior because you can't test all options...
- Went to a session of "Experience Reports" on education, partly because the topics sounded modestly interesting, partly because I hadn't yet checked out that format of session, which is new this year, and intended to be more practical / less academic.
Next I think I'll go to the panel session on "human-information interaction". Overall, I've been going with the theory that I can read papers later, so when all else is held equal, I choose panel sessions before paper sessions. So far this has been working pretty well for me.
Then the closing plenary is going to be Scott McCloud. I fully expect it to be a blast :)
In sum: physical energy is low, but positive affect still high ;)
Sadly, I seem to be coming down with a chest cold, which may lessen my enjoyment of my free day in Montreal tomorrow. I just hope I'm over the worst of it before visiting my 81yo Dad on Sunday.
Let's see, what have I done since updating last?
- Did get a good night's sleep, yay!
- Went to a panel discussion that was more or less "applying HCI to big significant problems, rather than little artificial lab situations", e.g. on the one hand, preventing auto accidents, and using robots to search for disaster victims, and on the other hand, designing systems to support teams that are only partly co-located, and examining laptop usage in meetings in the context of research on conversational patterns when one party is using technology. Strangely enough, there were actually some themes across these quite disparate presentations, e.g. needing to model expected behavior because you can't test all options...
- Went to a session of "Experience Reports" on education, partly because the topics sounded modestly interesting, partly because I hadn't yet checked out that format of session, which is new this year, and intended to be more practical / less academic.
Next I think I'll go to the panel session on "human-information interaction". Overall, I've been going with the theory that I can read papers later, so when all else is held equal, I choose panel sessions before paper sessions. So far this has been working pretty well for me.
Then the closing plenary is going to be Scott McCloud. I fully expect it to be a blast :)
In sum: physical energy is low, but positive affect still high ;)