My time at ASU has come and gone incredibly fast; too fast actually. After traveling around the country conducting primary research for my thesis, I’ve been eager to slow down and take time to explore thoughts I’ve been grappling with. This winter I’ve relished time spent working to realize these ideas, and this summer I’ll be sharing them.
After receiving positive feedback from our paper for the Chicago Ethnography Conference, Chris Meierling and I have decided to build on those thoughts for the IVSA 2010 Conference in Bologna. Our paper and presentation explore how researchers can put forth information that is accessible and actionable for others and asks how we might be able to create a space that is informative, facilitating, inspirational, and ethical.
I am also excited to announce a very special new piece of work – Community Futures Project. Over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly interested in the use of the Internet and online visualization tools to inform and inspire the design process. While considerable research exists on the social impacts of digital communication, online consumption and the Web, we have paid far less attention to the opportunities presented by digital technology to understand people’s lives. Interested in exploring this opportunity space, I’ve teamed up with Kyle Larkin to advance the use of online tools as a means to connect with people over time and space to produce new, deep and continuing insights. We’ll be presenting and showcasing our work at the Create10 conference
in Edinburgh.