After more than one year that I present this paper at DH 2012, it finally got accepted and published in the LLC Journal (September 2013). Here are the abstract and the link to the paper: In this article, we provide…
#yeglongday
Throughout the last summer, I was volunteering to work with Edmonton Pipelines, a research group based at the University of Alberta. I participated in an awesome experiment called #yeglongday, in which during the longest day of the year, June 21st,…
Touching the Physical World Through Mobile Media
Up to now, this panel has been about multitouch surfaces and interactions with the text. We have discussed how our fingers almost “touch” digital objects through a thin layer on top of a screen. The response is so fast that…
The criticism of the algorithm: Understanding the metrics
The Implementing New knowledge Environments research project, or just INKE, aims to study new ways of dealing with text documents, especially academic books, and literary texts. Led by Ray Siemens (University of Victoria), the project is multidisciplinary, involving 35 researchers…
A crítica do algorítmo: Para entender as métricas
Faço parte de um grupo de pesquisa chamado INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environment – Implementado Novos Ambientes de Conhecimento). O principal objetivo do INKE é estudar novas formas de leitura do texto, principalmente livros e texto acadêmico, e é liderado…
On Locative Media and the Urban Space
Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is capable of wirelessly connect to other devices, track geographic position and capture audiovisual information. They become ubiquitous in the society, especially in the urban space, where the access to the Internet is…