In the next couple of weeks I am planning to conduct some interviews with Edge visitors and people who hang out here and do all sorts of stuff. The goal is to get an understanding of what sort of people come to the Edge and what they do and work on when they hang out [...]
I just met Gavin Bannerman at Lab 1. He was using one of the Macs in the Lab to edit some pictures with Illustrator. Gavin is a very interesting guy, he is the webmaster and project manager of BikingBrisbane (www.bikingbrisbane.com), a website that describes the Brisbane cyclist subculture. BikingBrisbane comprises digital stories of people who [...]
I participated in the ‘Smart Cities master class’ which was based at the Edge last weekend. Here are some of my thoughts and experiences during the workshop: The master workshop was outlined as a 32 hours ‘live studio experience’ where participants would work in different groups and design proposals for hypothetical future smart city sites. [...]
Hi there, I am Mark Bilandzic and I am doing a study at the Edge where I am particularly interested in improving the experience of people when they come to the Edge through the use of ambient technologies. The Edge is a physical place for people to meet, explore, experience, learn and teach each other [...]
A number of the current residents and catalysts got together with PhD students from QUT’s Urban Informatics group to work with the newly released Edge public power consumption data. The ideas was to find new and creative ways of visualising the energy consumption at the Edge. We had some excellent activities which included hacking Edge-labelled [...]
The Edge uses a power monitor (Satec BFM136) to measure the energy that is consumed. We now made this data publicly available at Pachube: http://www.pachube.com/feeds/8912. Pachube is a service that allows people to share sensor information and create the “Internet of things”. The release of the Edge power data is a starting point in our [...]
We have been closely collaborating with a number of the residents and catalysts at The Edge by providing technical expertise. We have worked with Sandra Landolt on the realisation of two concepts. First, a wearable interactive input device that explores how to control light and kinetic installations. And second, an interactive installation using micro-controller based [...]
Workshop At the start of May we conducted a well-attended 2-day workshop titled “Making things sense: Urban sensing and physical computing”. The focus was on how to build sensor hardware and how to share sensor information with others. Our attendants ranged from artists, over game developers to PhD students. The workshop was very well received. [...]
We created SenseLab is part of the Edge opening activities. The aim was to showcase how sensor and social mobile technologies could be used in conjunction. Sense-lab is an application that displays physical and social activities in different parts of the Edge on a large interactive touch screen. Activity sensors were installed in four of [...]
Twitterwall: The Twitterwall displays people’s comments about the Edge to a large public display. People use Twitter or SMS to make comments. The application is based on the “Discussions in Space tool”, built by QUT’s Urban Informatics PhD student Ronny Schroeter. The Twitterwall was used during the Edge launch, both in a bay as well [...]
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