Paris B-A

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.

Tag: phd

OZCHI 2009 Proceedings; GDC 2010

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 [...]

Upcoming conference(s)

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, [...]

California; PhD; Google & HTC’s Nexus One

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. [...]

A brief update

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 [...]