Paris B-A 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 Cat http://paris.id.au/ipad-cat/ http://paris.id.au/ipad-cat/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:53:29 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=225 ]]> http://paris.id.au/ipad-cat/feed/ 2 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 Make it so… http://paris.id.au/make-it-so/ http://paris.id.au/make-it-so/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:47:47 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=213 ]]> http://paris.id.au/make-it-so/feed/ 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.

]]> http://paris.id.au/ozchi-2009-proceedings-gdc-2010/feed/ 0 Business Cards for GDC http://paris.id.au/business-cards-for-gdc/ http://paris.id.au/business-cards-for-gdc/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:05:46 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=194 Secret Lab GDC Business Cards ]]> http://paris.id.au/business-cards-for-gdc/feed/ 0 Upcoming conference(s) http://paris.id.au/upcoming-conferences/ http://paris.id.au/upcoming-conferences/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:55:09 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=186 Another brief update before I hit the blog with my over-the-top Mass Effect 2 and Nexus One commentaries.

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!

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I’m in California again for work! It is raining heaps and I’m really enjoying it. Half of Secret Lab’s clients are now in the Bay Area. PhD is coming along slowly (but smoothly!)

Gadget wise: So, I’m using a Nexus One now. Review to come (uncharacteristically I plan to review the thing!)

In short: win.

]]> http://paris.id.au/california-phd-google-htcs-nexus-one/feed/ 1 Why 2009 was a good year for movies http://paris.id.au/why-2009-was-a-good-year-for-movies/ http://paris.id.au/why-2009-was-a-good-year-for-movies/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:11:18 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=180 Update 21/01/2010: added Zombieland!

Another post of no substance! Why 2009 was an above-average year for movies, in no particular order:

  • District 9
  • Watchmen
  • Coraline
  • Up
  • Star Trek
  • Moon
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Avatar
  • Zombieland
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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.

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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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