Week 175

Went along to the Computation Turn and presented my paper on Patterns in the Digital Humanities. The keynotes from Katherine Hayles and Lev Manovich are online there as videos.

The one major thing I came out of it with was realizing that recognizing shapes is not the same as recognizing patterns. Most of the time when someone says they see patterns in data sets and visualizations, they see shapes in the data, not patterns.

Also the HEAT workshops keep progressing. Still looking into behavior change through both mobile devices and serious gaming as part of that.