Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Posts from September 2007

The Experience Sampling Method

I’ve been looking at the experience sampling method (ESM), taken from Psychology for my research. It’s a technique for gathering both quantitative and qualitative information in-situ, prompting users to respond to a series of questions at certain time intervals. ESM, accredited in its current form to Csikszentmihalyi et al. can be adapted to ubiquitous computing [...]


Street Hacking

This photo was taken in Lyon. This is awesome! It’s one form of vandalism that I think is justified… it probably makes hundreds of people smile every day. Isn’t that worth breaking the rules for?


Thesis Proposal

Woohoo, I submitted my thesis proposal last week. If you’re interested in mobile location-based awareness, check it out [pdf]!
Here’s the abstract:
Researchers in context-aware computing aim to solve real-world problems by adapting systems to context. For many years, the HCI research community have explored the possibilities that context-aware computing has to offer, leading to novel [...]