Empathy Machine: The Dialector

By Amelia, on March 6th, 2013

I get frustrated with people who speak differently than I do. Dialect, vernacular, language… these heavily-researched social science topics become lumpy and gray in my mind, but, at the end of the day, I still don’t always enjoy conversing with someone who doesn’t speak the way I do. Being from the South, with a [...]

March 6th, 2013 | Category: Rest of Us | Comments are closed

Visual Diary: Final Project Proposal

By Amelia, on March 5th, 2013

For our final project, I was a bit torn with feeling like I needed to do something in the P-comp vein. But, quite honestly, I just haven’t been able to come up with any solid ideas that involve my building something electronic. ​

That said, I have really enjoyed the Digital Footprint portion [...]

March 5th, 2013 | Category: Final | Comments are closed

Google Image Chat and Generated Screen Savers

By Amelia, on February 27th, 2013

This week, I had fun tracking a ton of activity from my input to my computer… key strokes, mouse clicks, application usage, etc. However, I didn’t feel that there was enough data to make anything terribly interesting, so I chose to run the Most Interesting Words of the Month program on my entire [...]

February 27th, 2013 | Category: Patterns in Your Digital Footprint | Comments are closed