"A context-aware web": Supervised a group of six students to produce an interactive installation/game by (mis)using responsive web design technologies and ideas.
Taught basic web design and development, including responsive design and progressive enhancement, to students from a variety of (mostly non-technical) backgrounds. Marked coursework.
Taught basic web design and development, including responsive design and progressive enhancement, to students from a variety of (mostly non-technical) backgrounds. Marked coursework.
Core classes taught concepts from architecture, philosophy, art, sociology, media theory, political sciences, choreography, design, history, literature... and who knows what else. My eyes were opened to a million new ways of thinking about the world. I started to understand 'research by practice' and the value of play. There was still a lot of artsy crap I couldn't accept, but it was mostly okay. I took electives inside my comfort zone, from the School of Informatics (Advanced Natural Language Processing and Multi-agent Semantic Web Systems). I worked on group projects with an awesome and diverse bunch of people from whom I learnt a lot.
(I cleverly wrote this thesis in Google Docs, but I might translate it to HTML and link to it one day).
I worked with a couple of people in the English Literature department to build Palimpsest, a web app (with Python and JavaScript on Google AppEngine) that shows you historical texts based on your location as you walk around a city. I spent most time on the authoring interface, for plotting texts onto a map. The project is still going, though it's morphed now and outgrown the code I wrote. I'd intended to develop this into a full blown interactive fiction engine and authoring system that let you draw the world map onto a real map, so that players could navigate the story by moving around IRL. I didn't pull that off, but I mocked it up.