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Published Papers:
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The Tactile Touchpad
[CHI]
A significantly higher throughput pointing device is introduced
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A Comparison of Three Selection Techniques for Touchpads
[CHI]
The Tactile Touchpad significantly betters standard touchpad techniques
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Unipad: Single Stroke Text Entry With Language-based Acceleration
[NordiChi]
Improving upon mobile text entry
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Gyrodrive: Bettering the iPod Clickwheel
[Pending]
Two-handed functionality utilizing one hand
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A comparison of two input methods for keypads on mobile devices
[CHI]
The RollPad mobile phone text entry method is introduced
Rollpad Demo:
Tactile Touchpad Demo:
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Published Articles:
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The iPhone in Canada & The Cost of Data
Watching YouTube costs $1.25 per second!
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Think Outside the Box
A $600 laptop with a broken monitor? Makes sense
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Stick to simple technology
Over-engineering taking away our freedom
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Carry Big Brother in your pocket
Pondering the use of cellphones as mandatory ID
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Wear your tech on your sleeve
Matching your clothing with your gear
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Moving software towards the Web
Google is leading the pack in online services
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The IPod with every song ever made
Only so much music has ever been recorded
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Use pedal power to recharge iPod
Adventures in reducing waste and saving the earth
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Forget biotech – the future is quantum
Simultaneous existence of 0 and 1 won't save York
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Live in your own cone of silence
Blocking noise is easier than you think
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Lay off the kerosene
LED lamps could save up to a million lives per year
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Blink and you won’t miss it
Breaking the myth of faster technology
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Enough cord to hang yourself with
Even ‘wireless' devices come with wires
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Will you win the warranty lottery?
Choose between 6/49, being hit by lightning and getting the extended warranty
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Looking for the nature of technology
From hammers to radioactive watches, tech is not all science
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Tricked out laptops for everyday needs
Unorthodox accessories could make the most out of laptops
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Crimes of the nanopod age
Freud would call it earbud envy
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Technology on downward trend
Let's catch up with our past
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‘You’re so annoying, 10-4’
What's the point of walkie-talkie phones?
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Will your fridge eat up your fingers?
Hybrid appliances make for a cool new world
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Knobs make the world go round
Or buttons, the scourge of the digital age
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Use the tech, Luke
One day, you too will have to do your part against the evil side of technology, young Jedi
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Weave your essays in cloth – almost
Cloth keyboard and handheld PCs make essay writing portable
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Keep Hollywood in your backpocket
Watch movies during your long commute to York
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Podcasts change the face of radio
Download weird homemade radio shows onto your portable music player
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Follow hurricane Katrina on your watch
Also has atomic time and news headlines
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Drop the mountain bike and the SUV
The Common Sense Use of Everyday Technology
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iPod is one really bad apple
Thinking of buying an iPod Mini? Think again!
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Remember when it used to be free?
Water and television used to cost nothing. Yes, that's right. They were free!
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The buttons don’t work
Think that door closed button in every elevator actually works? Well, think again!
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Austin Powers in Goldconverter
How to make a remote controlled lamp
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Stupid camera tricks (don’t try at home)
When is a camera not just a camera?
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Two monitors equals twice the fun
Let's do the math
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Evolving beyond our bodies
Humans are not androids yet, but it's only a matter of time
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It’s the motion of the ocean, baby!
Small is where it's at
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Hey DJ, turn up that VCR!
CDs end before parties do
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Why won’t my computer shut up?
You can blame Microsoft for the end of the silent age of computing. Thanks a lot, Bill Gates.
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Don’t be fooled again by DSS
Quad sound is not just something from the era of bell bottoms, bongs and progressive rock albums
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A mall for the gadget inclined
Expand your horizons beyond the Radio Shack
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See the light and go wireless
It surrounds us, penetrates us and provides guidance to those who ask
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The Mercedes of remote controls
Gadget delivers a cheap and easy way to spice up your TV
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Trade in your big TV for the real deal
Is NASA really telling us everything they know about plasma television?
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Ultimate TV
No monthly fees!
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E-Books
Get yourself an environmentally friendly e-book reader
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Hardware Creations:
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MacQuarium
A broken Apple Macintosh's new life as an aquarium
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Autonomous Robot
Hunts light, follows lines and doesn't fall off tables
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Volunteering:
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Nordichi Finland
Conference in Human Computer Interaction
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Graphics Interface Halifax
Conference in Graphics and Human Computer Interaction
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CHI Atlanta
Conference in Human Computer Interaction
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CHI Los Angeles
Conference in Human Computer Interaction
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CHI Pittsburgh
Conference in Human Computer Interaction
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CHI Fort Lauderdale
Conference in Human Computer Interaction
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UIST Banff
Conference in User Interfaces
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Fashion Cares 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
, 2005, 2006
Fundraising charity
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TV/Film/Commercial:
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Extra
I was a "background performer" in some old TV shows and things
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Lotteries
A CITY TV camera crew asked me what I thought about lotteries
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The Design Game
I won a microwave, luggage and a dining room set on a game show! haha
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David Hasselhoff
Mr. Hasselhoff was filming on my street so I introduced myself...
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Celebrities:
Michael Palin,
Penn &
Teller,
Frank Gorshin,
Douglas Coupland,
Bill Maher,
Jimmy Walker,
Corry Doctorow and
Roger Ebert
Famous people that were nice enough to stop for a photo
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