Category: CHI Project Info
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Excavating the Digital Sub-Strata of an Archaeology Conference
The Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA) was held January 3rd – 6th, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. I went to this annual meeting for a variety of reasons: 1) present my preliminary research findings on the Neolithic mortuary practices of southern Greece; 2) network with…
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“Visualizing Adderall” CHI Project Proposal
Introduction: From vitamins to painkillers to psychotropic drugs, consuming pills has become a normalized and even expected part of life for many Americans. In 2010, US pharmaceutical sales topped $300 billion dollars and continue to be one of the most profitable industries in the nation[i]. This unprecedented incorporation of prescription drugs into daily life has…
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The Tumulus Mapping Archive: Tumulus
Introduction The project that is emerging as a result of my CHI Fellowship is one related to my dissertation research in northern Albania. The tumuli (burial mounds) of northern Albania appeared suddenly on the Shkodër plain around the start of the Bronze Age (ca. 3000 BC). As a result of the ongoing Projekti Arkeologjikë i…
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Settler Colonialism Uncovered: Beginnings
Introduction The majority of present-day states are former colonies or colonial metropoles, a number of which were or still are settler colonies.[1] Consequently, it is essential to know where and how such colonies formed to understand current geopolitics and to raise awareness of their legacy, especially in present-day settler colonies, such as the United States,…
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Corridor: Redux
After many months of holding you in suspense, it’s now time to show my CHI fellowship project and bid you all adieu with this final post as a CHI fellow. To refresh your memory, the project I proposed last spring was called Corridor. It was a web application that would serve as a reference for…
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The Oman Archive: eyes forward, a look in the rearview mirror
For a country of people noted for their unhurried grace, the Sultanate of Oman is changing at a head-spinning rate. The Oman Archive (OA) was originally conceived of as a digital attempt to archive Oman’s archaeological heritage in and around the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat. The OA had several functions: To integrate and…
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The End is Only the Beginning for QUALANTH: A Digital Repository for Qualitative Researchers
When conceptualizing QUALANTH, I wanted to build a digital repository for researchers, like myself, who work with human research participants. Over the past year, I have tackled issues around privacy, protection of human subjects, IRB and consent form and tried to embody these issues when designing QUALANTH but this work is far from over. An…
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Reveal and review: Talus through development
Well, kids, it’s finally here. Please, allow me to present the mobile web app version of: TALUS! Check it out on your smartphone or shrink down a browser window to see it in reasonable dimensions. I set out with a pretty clear vision of the product I wanted to create. Starting from total zero, besides…
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Building a mobile app as a novice: tools review
Going into building TALUS, I had minimal understanding of programming. Maybe in the 90s, I learned that if you surround text with <b> and </b>, that text will be bolded. And something about the existence of a hexadecimal number code system (weird). But that was pretty much it. However, as a consumer, I feel more…
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Introducing Corridor
Twitter has been an invaluable tool for me as a new grad student and growing scholar. Communicating and building connections over Twitter has helped form relationships with my colleagues and professors in my program and across the university. Using Twitter has also afforded me access to the growing domain of digital humanities through the tweets…