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CHI 2013: Louvre Pyramid Reflections
I have just returned from the CHI 2013 Conference in Paris and after such an inspiring week, at what is widely considered the most prestigious conference in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), I am now reflecting on my experience. I was delighted to open the workshop “Made for Sharing: HCI Stories of Transfer, Triumph and Tragedy” … Continue reading
GIS Research UK (GISRUK) 2013
About a month ago, I had the pleasure of attending the GISRUK 2013 annual conference, and am still reeling from the experience. Often I find that conferences tend to have an over-representation of a particular population, though that’s to be expected, as it’s the nature of a conference to bring together people of similar interests. … Continue reading
Doing it Yourself: Kite-mapping… an activity for the ‘privileged’?
Kite, check, reel, check, camera, check, SD card & batteries, check, camera rig, check, gloves, check, map, check, sunglasses, check. Weather conditions: partially cloudy with intermittent winds. Perhaps doing citizen science, as in taking the initiative to start a scientific project by yourself, requires a lot more than we think and makes us realise how much we … Continue reading
Truthloader discussion on citizen science
Truthloader is a YouTube show bringing investigative and citizen journalism, and on 19th March it carried out a discussion (using Google Hangouts) of citizen science, in which Cindy Regalado and Muki Haklay participated. The discussion is about 30 minutes long
Does citizen science by itself provide an evidence for cultural ecosystem services?
While designing an interdisciplinary PhD research project I am exploring different domains. From one hand I am focusing on the state-of-the-art of citizen science for ecological research and from the other hand I am reading about the conceptual frameworks that have been developed to convey environmental knowledge in policy relevant way. I came across a … Continue reading
Thank You: Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Since I am in the final year of my Industrial Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (RCE 1851), last night I had the honour to present my Engineering Doctorate (EngD) project (a collaboration with Dr Foster Intelligence, about which you can read more on the poster) at the biennial Presidential Dinner … Continue reading
More-than-Human Participation
Call for papers: More-than-Human Participation Christian Nold (University College London); Royal Geographical Society with IBG, 28th-30th August 2013, London. Addressing the conference theme of ‘new geographical frontiers’, this is one of three RGS-IBG sessions, dedicated to participatory science, to be held at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre. Entrance to these sessions is free. Sponsored by … Continue reading
Reflections on a Semester at the GCRC, Carleton University, Canada
In July 2012 I was invited by Professor D.R.F Taylor to work on a cybercartographic atlas of Baffin Island, Nunavut, as a Visiting Researcher, at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. I was intrigued by the cybercartographic atlases due to their bottom-up approach and because they are community driven … Continue reading
Reflections on the 12th NBN Conference
The 12th NBN Conference took part on the 23rd of November at the Royal Society. The National Biodiversity Network (NBN) is an initiative in the United Kingdom to capture, integrate and distribute biodiversity information via various (online) media. People can submit or download species observations by means of an open access portal called NBN Gateway. Most of the … Continue reading
Citizen Cyberlab starts officially: the journey begins
This past 12 and 13 of November marked the beginning of a 3 year journey into the consolidation of the Citizen Cyberlab, an FP7-ICT-funded initiative. Members of the Citizen Cyberlab consortium met to kick-off their project “Citizen Cyberlab: Technology enhanced creative learning in the field of citizen cyberscience“. With members from Université Paris Descartes (UPD), … Continue reading
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