Monthly Archives: December 2007

affordances

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } affordances, originally uploaded by bmevans80. When I was waiting to use the restroom on a flight recently, I noticed that a flight attendant had placed some paper towels between the handles [...]

Did you follow the KPBS Twitter feed during the San Diego fires?

Brief intro: I am interested in how people use and appropriate technology (especially new Web technology). When I read a workshop paper over the summer on Why We Twitter (Java, Song, Finin, and Tseng), I realized that microblogging services like Twitter deserved real attention from the research community. As a light-weight, free, mobile tool for [...]

daily links 12/12/2007

Honda: fuel-cell car development and home energy station Honda has been developing solar-powered home energy stations to generate heat and electricity for the home as well as for power for fuel-cell cars. This is really promising. – post by bmevans

daily links 12/11/2007

ACM’s Committee on Women in Computing ACM has started a new program to award funds for traveling to research conferences to support women in computing at all levels (undergrad, graduate). Deadline of Feb 1 for April conferences. – post by bmevans

Congratulations, Amaya !

CONGRATULATIONS, Amaya !! Yesterday I sat in on my first dissertation defense, that of my good friend and lab-mate, Amaya Becvar. It was unbelievable! Jim Hollan opened the session with a story of his first interaction with Amaya (then an unknown graduate student in Bio-Chemistry who wrote such a phenomenal essay in his undergrad HCI [...]