And so week 1 of the fall semester in IU HCI/d has come to a close. It was quite refreshing to get back to the grind of school again, and to also be able to interact with the people in my classes again. I’m taking 3 classes here: Capstone (a year-long personal project), Interaction Culture [...]
And yet another summer is quickly coming to a close, and another semester in IU HCI/d will start up on Monday. There was so much that got taken care of this summer (go ahead to poke through all of the archives here to see what went on!), namely: Tabletop programming, consulting work, helping out GZ.tv, [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to a housewarming party. There was a lot of people there, and we were also swimming in the amount of chicken we could have to eat. There was roast chicken, even more roast chicken, KFC, macaroni and cheese, and then there was more chicken. We were able [...]
Slide Show + -Full Screen Last week, I had the luxury of being invited to go on a road trip to Cincinnati to see Video Games Live (Wikipedia Link). They play orchestrated versions of popular video game music. It took around 3 hours to get there, and we also had the luxury of stopping at [...]
Slide Show + -Full Screen Last week, our HCI cohort decided to throw a surprise birthday party for one of our professors. We arranged for a surprise dance number, cake, presents, and the fun that would ensue for the night. Here are some pictures to bring this event to life again. Everyone had cake and [...]
On the way back home, before I went to the airport, a good friend and I went to a fast food restaurant I haven’t been to in awhile – Hardees. I have been getting their coupons lately, and have been wanting to go, but this was one of the opportunities I have gotten to come [...]
Slide Show + -Full Screen I also took almost 2 weeks off from blogging and work to go back home and enjoy Independence Day with my family. The experience was overwhelming. Not only was I welcomed home and missed terribly, but everyone was interested in what I was doing out here in Indiana. I was [...]
Slide Show + -Full Screen When I went back home in early July, I was fortunate enough to be able to go on a road trip to play Dance Dance Revolution. We took a 45 minute drive up to Simsbury, Connecticut, to Blue Fox Rock and Bowl. It was a small place, and the machine [...]
Slide Show + -Full Screen When I went home for vacation, one of the things I enjoyed the most was being able to see the cat again. “The Little Lovin”, as I call her, was a rescue cat and is quite a joy to be around. Once she gets accustomed to you, you can be [...]
Recently, I took some time to not do some work. My friends wanted to show me some of the sights around here in Bloomington, and I didn’t want to pass up the opportunity to not only enjoy their company, but to see what they had to show me. We then got into the car and [...]
Slide Show + -Full Screen I haven’t been writing in a while, as I have been working on research over the summer, and I also went home for vacation. Here are some of the pictures I have also taken on some of the other trips I have taken this year. Taking trips is something I [...]
Slide Show + -Full Screen During this summer, I also have had the luxury of spelunking around the Bloomington campus at night, and took some wonderful photos with my iPhone. There are so many different places I have never seen before, and I want to share this experience with you, though it pales in comparison [...]
Slide Show + -Full Screen Sorry for not writing in a while – in my next post I’ll reveal why I haven’t been writing. But in the mean time, I have finally found a good way to post and share pictures here, so I’ll let you take a look at the past year in HCI [...]
During the past couple of months, I ended up doing some things that I have never done before, which have helped me to see how much more of an HCI professional I am now than a year ago. Going to CHI I went to the conference on Computer-Human Interaction in Boston, USA. The experience there [...]
A full year has passed since I graduated from my undergraduate in upstate New York. I have had my first taste of a graduate career, and so far, it is quite the ride. I’ve gotten to experience research, design, learning, failure, and new people all in one quick year. The past two semesters have flown, [...]
After a long time with this current theme, I feel it is time for me to flex my own web design muscle here and gift this site a deserved facelift. Keep checking here often to see what it looks like, and feel free to give your own two cents as to whether you like the [...]
Experiencing it Remotely A couple weeks ago, I qualified to be a part of a remote usability test for a site which was undergoing a redesign. The interesting factor for me was that I was not the one giving the test, and I wasn’t in the same room as the facilitator of the test. It [...]
Tips from the Wise For our upcoming assignment, we received some advice. We need to go through the theories presented so far, and use them as a tool to explore and play with the interactions we choose to critique. This is a guided brainstorm session, facilitated by these theories. These theories again, are the 4 [...]
Starting With… We began class with another aesthetic experience: wishing our professor a happy birthday. You can take a look below at the video I recorded during the celebration process to get a more nuanced look at how graduate classes at IU are actually experienced. Words of Deep Concern from Bolter and Grusin So we [...]
So there has been some funny stuff I have been watching which I have not put up yet on this here blog, so here’s a second I have to do this: Awesome Meme I hope people start adopting this around the internets and here at Indiana. Just watch and be amazed. A Reference Some May [...]
Before we get into the meat and potatoes of what happened yesterday, we went over a reminder – the tools and the technical vocabulary we have been given are tools to explore what an experience truly is, and how to play with it and capture every detail. We get to play with these tools, as [...]
There’s a lot going on in the world right now, especially in my little section of it. I’ve got my Master’s program in Human-Computer Interaction Design, a potential submission to Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a lot of awesome people to interact with, and also I just recently gotten an internship as part of the Web Team [...]
As many people know about me, I love to play in the arcade as often as I can. It’s not only fun, but it’s also a great way to meet people and get some exercise done as well. I have originally started to venture into arcades back in my freshman year at RPI, where we [...]
I just saw Cloverfield last night. It was an interesting an experience, which I’ll reveal why. In terms of the storyline, with minimal spoilers, this is a disaster movie (roughly). People start out having a party, and then all of a sudden, a disaster happens in New York, and we’re (as an audience) left to [...]