informal dialogue

the post links aren’t working..
I’m not really sure why!
My fault.. fixed!

The pixeltag project has progressed once again;
* the interface has been amended slightly to allow for yaw input (not just roll) as the ‘x’ axis data,
* the ‘cursor’ item has been implemented, allowing the user to see where they are about to draw prior to doing so,
* The up/down ratios have been adjusted to allow [...]

Classic!
I saw this random line in a joke book in the outhouse at work (yes, we have an outhouse, and it’s great), and thought it was just such a poignant statement, given my current situation of consistently flipping between my homepage, wiki and blog.
More on this to come…

The pixeltag project has progressed once again;
* the interface has been amended slightly to allow for yaw input (not just roll) as the ‘x’ axis data,
* the ‘cursor’ item has been implemented, allowing the user to see where they are about to draw prior to doing so,
* The up/down ratios have been adjusted to allow [...]

Lately there have been many ideas/thoughts flying around regarding potential project outcomes for my fledgeline Ph.D. research.
I wanted to get some of them out into the blogosphere, so I can get them out of my head and into some kind of intelligent format.  So here goes;
bus tracker
Web based interface for seeing real-time locations of buses [...]

Make that; Palin vs fundamental, accepted and peer-reviewed science.
David Burns of SO-AD recently posted this article on Sarah Palin on his facebook profile, which brought it to my attention. The article outlines some of the already known problems with the Palin campaign, but neatly wraps them all up into one article.
What worries me most [...]

As part of my research into interactive architecture, I have come across some very interesting ideas for designing and implementing feedback interfaces.
One such idea was embedded in the wii remote, as discussed in an earlier post on the pixeltag project. Another such test we worked on in the interactivation lab is the connection of [...]

JotYou™ – Location Based Mobile Messaging
(tags: tracking mobile tools)

100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick (both for Mac and Win)
(tags: tips usb apps)

1 Awesome Gmail tip You Don’t Know about. Seriously. | MakeUseOf.com
gmail tip to detect spam – simply add tags to your incoming email address (eg. instead of example@gmail.com you could use example+delicious@gmail.com to [...]

By Rachael Hemmings, Jessica Marsden-Smedley and Jason McDermott.
Completed for ‘Architecture, Cinema and Representation’, Autumn Semester.

Architecture Delirium (2007) from Jason McDermott on Vimeo

The Chennai Free Information Zone project is exhibited as part of the Continuum: Tactics for Contingent Environments Exhibition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  The Continuum exhibition is a collaboration between Anthony Burke of UTS DAB Architecture and David Burns of Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture.

The google-verse has recently been expanded to include gapminder software as part of the ever impressive Google Docs platform.
Below is an interactive spreadsheet example of the sophisticated motion graphs now available in Google Docs.
The motion graph is based on the Gapminder software first demonstrated to the world by Hans Rosling in his exciting and highly [...]

Solved!
Lately I’ve been configuring and (almost) loving the ease of use and simplicity of my brand new wiki. However, there have been some serious teething problems, which have not gone unnoticed.  If the wiki page does not load, you know that I have not yet solved my problems!
The wiki page problems have been resolved and [...]

Architecture Delirium is a short film (by Rachael Hemmings, Jessica Marsden-Smedley and myself) submitted in 2007 for an Architecture Cinema & Representation subject in the Bachelor of Architecture course at UTS.
It is a quirky little film that tells the (somewhat autobiographical) story of one student’s descent into madness due to many hours spent in the [...]

As part of my PhD work in the Interactivation Studio, I have been testing various configurations of existing interfaces, as input/output devices in conjunction with Max/MSP and Arduino.  This work is mainly focussed on developing new ways of embedding a type of programmable intelligence into people’s interactions with physical space.  To date I’ve experimented mainly [...]