Posts Tagged ‘florence’

the end of CHI

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Wow, this has been a crazy week. So much information to process, people to meet, pictures to take.

Lectures and courses
I’ve been following so many lectures on so many papers. It’s been crazy. Subjects ranged from “A comparison between Heuristics Evalutation Methods” to “User Research using Mechanical Turk”. I’ve been trying to attend to a lot of usability lectures, some of which were really interesting and some of which were plain bad. It was nice to see the difference between academic work and corporate work.
On the general however, it’s just like school. A lot of people sitting and listening to a lecture. Some people taking notes on paper, some taking notes on their macbook pros and some just taking pictures of the projected slides. (more…)

Being locked out is no fun…

Monday, April 7th, 2008

dsc_0042-Editdsc_0045My fellow students are attending some reception, which costs something like 65$ aka too much for me. I however am stuck somewhere between the apartment and the conference. Some of my colleagues hid one of the keys somewhere near our door, but apparently a bit too well.
It kind of sucks. It mainly sucks because I have to attend some lectures at 9:00 tomorrow, for which I should wake up at around 7:30. It doesn’t suck that much, because it’s still pretty warm outside and until about half an hour ago, I was able to shoot pictures of il Duomo (some church thing… I don’t really know the proper names for different churches like cathedrals and abbeys and the likes).
Anyways. I’m not going to type much more. I’m getting a bit tired and I just want to go to bed to be honest… So enjoy the pics.