Paris B-A » uni 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 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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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.

]]> http://paris.id.au/ozchi-2009-presentation/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!

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It’s also pretty cool that the AUC has Twitter now!

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“Project F”, also known as Secret Project, has been progressing extremely well. Many late nights have been spent working with the team: Andrew Bennett (Art), Jon Manning (Programming), Josh Deprez (Music), Zen Miles (Gameplay), Peter Lyle (Gameplay, Project Management) and myself (Producer). We’re in the middle stages of development right now and most of our time (with the exception of Andrew, who is busy 3D modelling, and Jon, who is busy coding the engine) has been spent designing levels (yes, Secret Project is a game!) Zen Miles, Andrew Bennett and Jon Manning hard at work!

We think we’ll start talking about it sometime within the next month, release is still scheduled for early June (around when everyone suspects WWDC will be!) Speaking of WWDC, I’m greatly looking forward to the now annual pilgrimage to San Francisco. Lots of exciting things are happening with Secret Lab at the moment and I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about them. Hopefully I’ll see lots of you there!

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My PhD is progressing well, not that much has happened – I’ve spent academic year thus far writing a few journal and conference papers, only one of which has been submitted yet – more on this as we receive it! I’m going to spend my time drinking coffee and working on cool things with Secret Lab. Until next time, everyone should go and watch robot friend, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Battlestar Galactica and Chuck. I’ll be posting more soon, with news of Button Squid and his new friend, Twitter! See you then!

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  • API Centre, 69 Liverpool Street Hobart
  • Wednesday, 11 March 2009
  • 5.30 – 7.30 PM

I should note that I was recently added to ACS Tasmania’s Executive Board, a role which I hope will allow TUCS and ACS Tasmania to have a mutually beneficial relationship! A good year ahead!

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I was also pleased to find out I achieved a grade of First Class Honours for my Honours work this semester. I’ll be heading into a PhD next year – wish me luck!

Secret Lab is doing well at the moment, we’ve made some great contacts in recent weeks and are embarking on some exciting projects! More to come soon, it’s all very secret still!

]]> http://paris.id.au/realbasic-honours-secret-lab/feed/ 0 Thesis! /dev/world! REALBasic! http://paris.id.au/thesis-devworld-realbasic/ http://paris.id.au/thesis-devworld-realbasic/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:51:13 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.secretlab.com.au/?p=39 Hard at work on my Honours thesis. I have almost completed my introductory chapter. Hopefully it actually makes sense, I’m planning on giving it to my supervisor to read sometime next week.

I’ll be giving a presentation at AUC’s /dev/world 2008 conference in Melbourne entitled “Polishing Your Cocoa Application” – should be good! Jon Manning and I will also be running two workshops on REALBasic in Melbourne and Sydney in late November/early December – if you’re at a eligible AUC University and are interested – then please go and apply!

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I had my initial Honours presentation on Tuesday.  From my perspective it went really well, had quite a few questions, at least one interested academic and no significant glitches. Although the Honours co-ordinator who was watching it over a video-link didn’t appear to be able to figure out precisely what my topic was.  Ah well, I’ll find out in detail what she thought soon enough

Spending a large chunk of time at the moment getting the new Secret Lab site presentable for people to look at during WWDC. Hopefully it will go live sometime tomorrow.

I leave for WWDC along with my friends from UTas early on Saturday morning. I’ll be blogging as much as I can while I’m over there and in-transit so please visit often!

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