http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress A place where stories, thoughts and ideas come together... Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:34:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the last 3 years, I've been working with Prof. Volker Wulf's group at the University of Siegen, Germany on various projects related to Global Software Development. It all started at the ICGSE'07 conference in Munich, where I met Alexander Boden, one of Volker's PhD students, and we realised we were ... http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress/2010/07/packing-my-bags-for-a-study-visit-to-germany/ My intention was to give a presentation about FabLabs at 3Dcamp. But being in the middle of 1000 other things, I postponed putting my name forward until no slot was left unoccupied. Well, I guess you don't need to hear me talking - you can read it by yourselves. FabLab (or ... http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress/2010/05/3dcamp-a-note-on-fablabs/ Last year on Ada Lovelace's day, I wrote a post about someone I admire. I prepared a lot for that post, but I got very sick on that very day, so I had to crawl out of bed with fever to actually edit the post and publish it. Call me superstitious, ... http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress/2010/03/women-in-technology-i-admire/ On Wednesday, Nicholas Polley, the founder of the Dublin-based company 3rd Dimension was our guest in the IDC. He was invited to give a talk for our students and staff, continuing the Interaction Design Talks series we initiated in autumn (previous speakers were Nicola Quinn and Macdara Butler). 3rd Dimension's Visualisation ... http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress/2010/02/welcoming-visitors/ I've seen many posts, articles, presentations and videos about making social media to pay off. Most of the times, people don't get it, and I can see a lot of metrics that are produced just to please managers. So I was delighted when I cam across this presentation via someone's tweet: Olivier ... http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress/2010/01/a-good-one/ The series of iHCI conferences started two years ago - my colleague Luigina Ciolfi organised the 2007 event, hosted by the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick. The 2009 event is hosted by Trinity College Dublin and it was organised by Aaron Quigley and Gavin Doherty. The first day ... http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress/2009/09/the-ihci-conference-2009/ At ECSCW'07, I was running a workshop on GSD and couldn't attend the one organised by Michael Koch and Wolfgang Prinz on Web 2.0. As this workshop took place next door from ours, I couldn't avoid noticing the enthusiasm and the fun the participants had. For the current edition- ... http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress/2009/09/academia-20-workshop-at-ecscw09/ ... that's how the life gets in! On Wednesday evening, I took my daughter to the O2 to see Leonard Cohen. Other mothers (in the movies) might make more expensive gifts to their daughters at graduation, like a car, or a shopping trip to NY, but I'm not in that ... http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress/2009/07/theres-a-crack-a-crack-in-everything/ A few weeks ago, when I desperately needed a break, I decided to become a wwoofer. For a workaholic, I thought that was the most reasonable thing to do. You don't have to stop working, but you're doing something else, out in the nature. It turned much nicer that I ... http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress/2009/07/living-the-life-of-reilly/ At the end of April, I attended an event organised by the IBM Ireland Innovation Centre in Dublin. Together with colleagues from several other Irish universities, we listened to some excellent presentations about the IBM Academic Initiative and the ongoing projects at the Dublin Software Lab. During the break, we ... http://www.coniecto.org/wordpress/2009/05/an-ibm-presentation-at-3dcamp/