A semi-coherent log for Martin Sønderlev Christensen - mixed with snipets of fun, critical thinking, love of all things connected and other browseworthy items.

Bødker goes doc!

My great friend, neighbor and brilliant ex-co-phd-colleague/trusted-conference-travel-companion Mads Bødker is defending his phd thesis at the IT-University, Auditorium 1 on Thursday, November 1. at 10.00 AM. If you generally interested in the new breed of HCI research and issues relating to Risk and Reflective design you should stop by on Thursday for the talk. "Trust Within Technology: Risk, Existential Trust, and Reflective Designs in Human Computer Interaction" check ...

Social Interaction Design

Haven't been all the way through the text, but I do find Adrian Chans attempt to write up A Social Interaction Design (SxD) Guide on Social Media, Social Practices, Social Content, very interesting. Read it here.. We can no longer make sense of social software and related applications from a user-centric model—at least not the model that has come out of cognitive science. That model has insisted on ...

Social Software Kursus Manifest

Jeg har lige lynskrevet et blurp til vores kommende kursus på IT Universitetet "Social Software - Design og implementering" Men er det for tacky? Ville du deltage? Comments? MySpace.com, Flickr.com, Del.icio.us, Plazes.com, Last.fm, digg.com, Wikipedia.org, Youtube.com, Facebook.com, Second life, Beta, blogging, tagging, metadata, moblogging, AJAX, RSS, podcasting, mashups, folksonomier etc. etc. I løbet af de seneste år har vi på internettet set en udvikling set en relativ stor vækst ...

Adios 2007 - Olá 2007

2006 is closing down. It sure has been exciting, yet at times a pretty bumpy ride. On a personal note, I successfully defended my Ph.D. in 2006. Got hold of the Doc title, Oh Yeahh. Finishing really felt nice, although it was a quite exhausting and somehow nerve wrecking exercise. Ending 3 intense years (and some) of work was to me very strange. I have also started on ...

I FUCKING MADE IT

mr phd Originally uploaded by stilleben ['stelle:bƏn].

Ready for Defense

This is probably nothing in the large context of things going around at the moment. To me however, this is pretty solid news. I'm happy to declare that my PhD thesis, has been approved by the assesment commitee meaning that I'm due to defend the bloody thing on the 29th of September, at the IT University of copenhagen, starting 14.00. M i Aud. 4 4. floor. You are ...

Tangible interface

Wow, tangible interfaces has surely come along way, just check out this multi touch "Minority Report" like demo and what seems to be navigation of Google Earth, and a super-funky DJ like interface. more on Multi-Touch Interaction Research Oh, and if you believe that graffiti can't be deligthfully poetic then watch this.

Microsofts present world-wiev

Technologies form our world, we live and work with them, for better or worse. They are partakers in the shaping of our world and indeed we often shape technology to fit our everyday life practices. But can we say that technology is “natural” to us that we always get what we need. No never, technology is obviously always produced, encoded if you will, by companies or the individuals ...

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