Workshop and Progress
I’m just ready to go to Switzerland for my first ever workshop on Sunday. Am I nervous? Yeah - I haven’t presented in such a large group of people in my life, but it should be OK. Somehow the joy from using a remote control to control my slides will take over my nerves, as the geek comes out of me. Until the remote stops working and I haven’t got a spare like Steve Jobs did during his Macworld iPhone keynote. Yeah right. It won’t make a slight bit of difference and I know it. The only way I’m going to get through this is proper preparation of my presentation. And I only have two days to work on it! Ahhhh! Any tips?
Anyway, for the past few days I’ve been working on a workshop position paper (for Shared Encounters - Chi 2007) entitled “Overlaid Information Communities”. I’ll link to it once I’ve finalised the draft and sent it off, but it was, I think, the paper which I’ve most enjoyed writing. It’s great at this stage of research because I haven’t performed and experiments yet, so I can still write about the tons of ideas I have in my head without totally committing on any one of them. I see the ideas I have being brought together now, and my research questions are beginning to emerge.
Back to the subject of Switzerland - does anyone have a Swiss plug adaptor I could borrow? European adaptors largely don’t work in Switzerland because they decided they’d be different. And I don’t want to run out of laptop power before I even begin the presentation 
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