Morning sessions at dConstruct08
This blogging lark is pretty time consuming and there has to be a more efficient way if doing this than I am following.
Blogging during the presentations is a none starter as you end up missing details. So for the morning I’ve decided to leave it until the lunch break and then do a summary of the first 3 sessions. So let’s go ......
We started with an interesting talk by Steven Johnson on the urban web. The first 15 min were about cholera outbreaks in London, which as you can imagine was a real ice breaker. However what he demonstrated was the similarities between research done into the source of the outbreak and that done with social networks, sounds strange I know but it did work. He then went on to talk about the need to be able to find content by location and the benefit location aware devices like the iphone can bring to the web and our social interactions online.
Next up was Aleks Krotoski of Guardian Tech Weekly fame. She discussed the common grounds between game and web designers and the lessons that we could learn from each other. Aleks was her usual enthusiastic self and had some useful observations, even managing to make some of the more academic elements pretty entertaining.
Finally we had Joshua Porter who continued on from Aleks talk to discuss leveraging cognitive bias in social design. This was my favourite presentation of the morning session with Joshua making some interesting points about the cognitive barriers around encouraging the take up of new web apps.
An interesting series if presentations with plenty of food for thought and ideas to take away.
And the blogging? Well typing all these words on the iPhone is little tiresome but achievable. The bigger issue was leaving the writing of the post until lunchtime. I think in the afternoon I will try to draft the post as we go along, writing some words at the end of each session.
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