Category: CHI Articles & Discussions
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Standing on the Shoulders of Open Source Giants
analysis, geojson for the data translation, and JavaScript for the interactive functionality. Don’t ask me why I decided to do it this way. I’ve never taken the easy road in my life. Every time I worked on the project, I shed a tear for not being able to use Flourish rather than coding my own…
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Pictures and Conversation
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures…
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Lost in Translation or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Github
Grandiose ideas are often the downfall of any undertaking. Take Napoleon and the decision to invade Russia, Tony Stark building Ultron, the Sega Dreamcast and the withdrawal of Sega from the console market. The most important point I am trying to keep in mind for the project is to keep the parts under the hood…
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Tokyo: The Virtual City
In May of 2017 while in Tokyo I visited Meiji shrine in Shinjuku for the Spring Grand Festival, a series of traditional performances including dance, archery and theater. After returning home, I posted a few photos of the event to social media, as people of my generation tend to do. I soon received a comment…
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Visualizing Southern Television (v. 1.0) Launched!
In 1987, the University of Mississippi held a symposium entitled “Covering the South: A National Symposium on the Media and the Civil Rights Movement” wherein participants discussed the influence of media on the civil rights movement. During one panel, a group consisting of eleven Pulitzer Prize winners and three Emmy awardees make huge claims about…
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Announcing “The Virtual Black Romulus Cultural Heritage Map (VBRCHM)”
In this brief blog, I will provide a description of my project, discuss the importance of my project, and present the intended functionality of my project. The hope is that the discussion of this project may inspire others to embark on similar projects as well as utilize the completed project for personal, professional and educational…
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Digitizing the Dead
Recently, a joint effort between the Royal College of Surgeons of London, the University of Bradford, and the Museum of London Archaeology announced the creation of a collection of digitized pathological skeletal specimens for study by osteoarchaeologists and bioarchaeologists. Digitised Disease, which is currently in beta version, will provide high resolution 3D models generated by laser…
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Toilet Technology: The Appropriation of Bathrooms for Digital Activity
One of the distinguishing, if not alarming qualities of our current historical moment is that cultural change occurs so rapidly and dramatically that one generation can scarcely recognize the next. Digital innovations of even the last twenty years have so forcefully changed everyday behaviors and communicatory norms that a grandparent simply asking a grandchild “what…
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Indigenous Language and Twitter
As and older student I remember being an undergraduate during a time when email was new and rarely used on campus. Most of my communication with my professors was in person or sometimes by telephone; the kind that were attached to walls! Grades were posted outside of their doors next to your social security numbers…
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Laypeople’s Role in Cultural and Heritage Preservation
Laypeople and community organizations can aid scholars and professionals dedicated to digitizing African American culture and heritage in four important ways. First, scanning photographs, obituaries, organizational documents, class photos, workplace photos, and other documents (such as report cards and newspaper clippings) into digital format will help preserve primary sources that will prove valuable for students,…