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Offline HTML5, Chrome, and infinite regress
I am using HTML5′s offline mode as part of the Tiree Mobile Archive project. This is, in principle, a lovely way of creating web sites that behave pretty much like native apps on mobile devices....
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Wonderful image and set of slides describing some of the reasons multitasking is a myth and how the interfaces we design may be literally killing people (during a mobile outage in Dubai cat accidents...
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First version of Tiree Mobile Archive app goes live at Wave Classic
The first release version of the Tiree Mobile Archive app (see “Tiree Going Mobile“) is seeing real use this coming week at the Tiree Wave Classic. As well as historical information, and parts...
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The war in the west
Just got back from the book launch for “Tiree: War among the Barley and Brine“. Organised by An Iodhlann and the Islands Book Trust. Mike Hughes, one of the authors, gave a talk and there were...
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get fit on Tiree
Today is the winter 10K run on Tiree. It has been organised by Craig Watson, one of the airport firefighters on Tiree, in aid of the “Michelle Henderson Cervical Cancer Trust”. It is looking a lovely...
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details matter: infinite scrolling and feature interaction
Many sites now dynamically add content to a page as you scroll down; this includes both Facebook and Twitter feeds, which add content as you get near the bottom. In many ways this is a good thing, if...
View ArticleAction Research in HCI
Recently Daniel Tetteroo asked if I knew about publications in HCI, prompted partly by the fact that I have described my Wales walk next year as a form of action research. I realised that all my...
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more on disappearing scrollbars
I recently wrote about problems with a slightly too smart scroll bar, and Google periodically change something in Gmail which means you have to horizontally scroll the page to get hook of the vertical...
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wonder women
As I started to prepare for the Wales walk I learnt about Anne-Marie “Arry” Beresford-Webb, who in her DragonRun1027 was first to traverse the new Wales Coast Path and existing Offa’s Dyke long...
View ArticleCHI Academy … a Faustian bargain?
I am on a short excursion from walking Wales to CHI 2013 in Paris. Last night I was inducted into the SIGCHI Academy. No great fanfares or anything, just a select dinner and a short ceremony. I thought...
View Articlethe myth of the ‘supermom’ supervisor
On Facebook I’ve seen a number of shares to an article in the Times Higher entitled “10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you“. The author is writing from an Australian perspective, and is now a...
View Articlethe economics of misery
It is agreed, by academics and politicians, if the poor are always to be with us, it had better be grinding poverty. Last week I spotted an interestingly titled “A strong faith ‘can weaken the...
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HCI 2013
Yesterday I got back from HCI 2013, the British Human–Computer Interaction conference in Brunel: lovely people, stimulating papers, and ceilidh dancing to boot. My first ever paper in computing1...
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India and APCHI
I am sitting in the Crowne Plaza hotel in Bangelore looking down over the city spreading seemingly endlessly as far as I can see. Here, out in the suburbs and in the heart of Electronics City, the...
View ArticleUnnatural Winter
Through cloud haze A snow field Green and mud-red become A grey-white sheep-fleece palette of crop and earth Rectilinear pieces puzzle-fit between ice-flow river-paths. Below a town. Bare, ringed toes...
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Edinburgh days
I’ve just spent most of the last week in Edinburgh. This was mainly for a one day update meeting for the projects in the Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture in Scotland, who funded the An...
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A sleepless night; do you have a b**ping mobile phone?
There are many reasons to swear at your mobile phone. I’ll talk about just one. I have just had a sleepless night. I was staying in an Oban hotel and needed to get up at 5:45am for the Tiree ferry. I...
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Christmas and the Foundational Myths of Social-Anthropology
I have started to read “Unwrapping Christmas” (David Miller ed.) a collection about the modern celebration of Christmas from an anthropological and sociological perspective. So far I have read just the...
View ArticleJavaScript gotcha: var scope
I have been using JavaScript for more than 15 years with some projects running to several thousand lines. But just discovered that for all these years I have misunderstood the scope rules for...
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big brother Is watching … but doing it so, so badly
I followed a link to an article on Forbes’ web site1. After a few moments the computer fan started to spin like a merry-go-round and the page, and the browser in general became virtually unresponsive....
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