Paris B-A » Secret Lab http://paris.id.au The personal domain of Paris Buttfield-Addison, opinionated bastard, HCI graduate researcher, author and co-founder of Secret Lab. I teach people things, write books and research papers, develop iPhone and iPad apps and games, and wander the world looking for coffee. Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:53:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 iPad Day http://paris.id.au/ipad-day/ http://paris.id.au/ipad-day/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:09:09 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=218 After waiting for 7 hours in line outside the Palo Alto Apple Store -

Waiting

We were finally let in at 9AM, after meeting Robert Scoble, Scott Forstall, some venture capitalists, the Russian kid who invented Charoulette, an awesome Indian limousine driver and many other awesome people, and were greeted by the Apple Store employees being fanatical -

More photos are on my Flickr page: http://bit.ly/b1AVek
Answering questions on MacTalk Forums: http://bit.ly/c4K9vm

]]> http://paris.id.au/ipad-day/feed/ 1 OZCHI 2009 Proceedings; GDC 2010 http://paris.id.au/ozchi-2009-proceedings-gdc-2010/ http://paris.id.au/ozchi-2009-proceedings-gdc-2010/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:49:01 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=202 Greetings humans! Just a quick blog to note that the paper I wrote with Christopher Lueg (my supervisor) and Jon Manning is now available online as part of the proceedings. If it interests you, you can go and read all about “The pile of least effort: supporting lived document management practices” in the “Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7“. Yay!

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Also: we just go back from GDC 2010 in San Francisco. A fantastic time! More to come soon. In the mean-time, you can read more about what I’m up to in the Secret Lab Blog.

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This weekend (namely Saturday, February 13), The Secret Lab crew (i.e. Jon and I) will be in an hour north in San Francisco to wander aimlessly around the Macworld 2010 Expo floor.

From March 9 – 13, we’ll again be in San Francisco to attend the 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC). We’ll undoubtedly have some Secret Lab schwag to share at this point, so try and sync up with us if you can! We’ll hopefully have some big news about our upcoming projects then too.

From April 10 – 15 we’re hoping to be in Atlanta, Georgia attending CHI 2010; but this is yet to be confirmed (due to the million other things we’re doing!)

From the beginning of May, we’ll be back in Australia. We’re going to be running a few workshops, likely on Unity and iPhone/iPad development then (probably in Melbourne and Brisbane) – stay tuned for information on those!

In June (probably, depending on the whim of the mighty Apple) we’ll be back in San Francisco to WWDC 2010 and all the exciting iPad learning it brings.

And… that’s all for now!

]]> http://paris.id.au/upcoming-conferences/feed/ 1 OZCHI 2009 Presentation http://paris.id.au/ozchi-2009-presentation/ http://paris.id.au/ozchi-2009-presentation/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:44:38 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=177 This is my OZCHI 2009 presentation (of my short paper), The Pile of Least Effort. It’s slides only I’m afraid, as the talk wasn’t recorded (to my knowledge!)

If you want a PDF or PPT of this presentation, click the “full screen” button in the embedded player, then choose what you want from the “actions” menu.

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Our book is announced! Rejoice!

More (preliminary, and temporary) info at Wiley.

Oh, and we have a United States phone number now (mostly for voicemail and SMS): +1 (510) 854-6522

Most excellent!

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  • June 2009 – July 2009: Attending Apple’s WWDC in San Francisco, CA, meetings in Los Angeles, CA (6 weeks)
  • August 2009 – September 2009: Meetings and business in Mountain View, CA (2 weeks)
  • September 2009: Speaking at the AUC /dev/world/2009 Conference in Canberra (3 days)
  • October 2009: Impromptu trip to Melbourne to visit the United States Consulate for Non-Immigrant Processing (2 days)
  • October 2009: Working on-site with client in Mountain View, CA (1 week)
  • October 2009: Attending Unity’s Unite 2009 Conference in San Francisco, CA (1 week)
  • October 2009 – November 2009: Working on-site with client in Mountain View, CA (4 weeks)
  • November 2009: Presenting at OZCHI 2009 in Melbourne (1 week)
  • December 2009: Presenting at the AUC CreateWorld 2009 Conference in Brisbane (3 days)
  • December 2009: Running the 3-day intensive AUC Unity Workshop in Sydney (3 days)
  • December 2009: (Tentative) Running 3-day iPhone Workshop in Melbourne (3 days)

Phew.

]]> http://paris.id.au/secret-labs-travel-schedule/feed/ 0 A brief update http://paris.id.au/brief-updat/ http://paris.id.au/brief-updat/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:46:03 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=149 OZCHI! Mountain View! Awesome!

Again, it’s been quite some time since my last post! A few interesting things have been happening:

  • A paper I wrote got accepted into OZCHI! This pleases me greatly! So I’ll be heading there in November.
  • Pending our upcoming E-3 Visa issuance, the Secret Lab team will be heading to Mountain View, California to work for a month in two weeks. That should be great fun!
  • The AUC /dev/world/2009 conference went very well! #fingUTAS (also known as the University of Tasmania) gave a great bunch of presentations, and hosted a fun Quiz Night and Lightning Talks. All the presentations were great! My two presentations went very well, and will be available for download in the near future!
  • The most recent TUCS Tech Talks, starring pjf were a huge success! Paul is an amazing speaker, and we got an amazing crowd!

More updates soon.

]]> http://paris.id.au/brief-updat/feed/ 0 What I’ve been up to! http://paris.id.au/what-ive-been-up-to/ http://paris.id.au/what-ive-been-up-to/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:48:30 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=147 Greetings blog! I haven’t posted in a while, I’m seeking to remedy that soon. However, here is a small snippet of what I’m currently doing.

  • Working on a variety of academic papers for my PhD
  • Working on cool things for TUCS as Vice-President
  • Preparing to speak at the AUC (Apple University Consortium) /dev/world/2009 conference in late September (along with Jon, Josh, and Andrew, also from Secret Lab – together we make up 7 of the conference presentations!)
  • Working hard on the Tiki Bar TV game
  • Having meetings and discussions with some awesome people in Mountain View, California (where I am as I write this post!)
  • Attending to my duties as a member of the board for ACS Tasmania (Australian Computer Society)

… and that’s just a brief list. More posts soon!

]]> http://paris.id.au/what-ive-been-up-to/feed/ 0 The Red Phone; The Red Robot (Box) http://paris.id.au/the-red-phone-the-red-robot-box/ http://paris.id.au/the-red-phone-the-red-robot-box/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:25:06 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=135 Secret Lab answering the Red Phone with Doctor Tiki and Tiki Tosca

Secret Lab answering the Red Phone with Doctor Tiki and Tiki Tosca

That is all. More on San Francisco and Los Angeles soon!

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