I’m Peter Lyle

Just a quick update to confirm that I am not in fact dead.

Thinking at this stage a use for this blog might be to document the final weeks of my honours thesis, because of course in the final weeks of any sort of epic dissertative (word not found?) work one needs to have epic procrastination and distraction. I have no doubt that my house will be incredibly tidy and everything non-thesis in my life will be up-to-date by the time the due date comes around. As to whether I’ll have something to submit, who knows.

Anyhow, the story so far:
Broad research area - Interaction with public or shared displays from mobile devices.
More specific aim or hypothesis - To test the scalability of cursor based interaction from mobile devices with public or shared displays.

How do I attempt to do this you say? I’m doing something that likely involves qualitative rather than quantitative data analysis you say? I picked up my car from having it’s clutch replaced today you say?

Well, to answer those questions, I’m going to assume they were said. The context of the question is largely irrelevant.

1. I attempt to do this with a scenario involving the dynamic voting of music selection. Think democratic jukebox ala Juloka and the work by Kenton O’Hara et al. (google or trawl ACM archives, or even ask me if interested in more detail).
2. Yes, most research in CSCW and HCI involves either partially or fully immersing oneself in qualitative data analysis. These areas sort of have roots in the sociology and psychology communities (of the former I think is awesome fun, and the later I think is probably fun but I haven’t done any units in that field). Nevertheless, I hope to get some results hopefully with some time to actually play with them before I have to submit something…
3. Yes, it’s true. My car got clutch-punched yesterday which thoroughly turned my day upside down and inside-in (because I’m not entirely sure inside-out makes sense for a unit of time, not sure about upside down either but it’s too late on that one). So the car is back, and all I had to do was give the auto-repair shop all my money (although I do regularly give them my money, and in return I have a car that works, thanks KAR )

Ps. As for the title of this post it’s not a misprint, it just so happens that yesterday my Motif turned up, which will be a fantastic distraction from anything important that I should be doing, huzzah!

Tags: notdeadyet, thesis

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