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		<title>UX Conference 2012: Design Studio</title>
		<link>http://synapticnulship.com/blog/2012/05/11/ux-conference-2012-design-studio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 22:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Kenyon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[interaction design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the particularly good presentations at the UPA Boston 11th Annual User Experience Conference (#UPABOS12) was called &#8220;Design Studio&#8221; by designer Adam Connor.
The main points are:

Why brainstorming is usually implemented wrong.
How to properly generate ideas and consensus (the &#8220;design studio&#8221;).

Charrettes (are used by the design studio process).



Design
As a super condensed version of the presentation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>User Experience Conference 2012: Link Blast</title>
		<link>http://synapticnulship.com/blog/2012/05/07/user-experience-conference-2012-link-blast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 03:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Kenyon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[interaction design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IxD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ux]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post lists tools and websites I learned about today at the UPA Boston 11th Annual User Experience Conference.
Tools for Mobile Prototyping and Usability Testing
Although I&#8217;m familiar with wearable computers, especially for the  military, and have developed for PDAs back in the day, I am fairly new  to the current popular commercial mobile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illuminated Armbands</title>
		<link>http://synapticnulship.com/blog/2012/04/24/illuminated-armbands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Kenyon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EL wire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I felt like building something physical on Saturday. Since I was going to be at a military fetish dance party later that night, I decided to make some chevron arm bands.
The goal was to have them stay on my bare upper arms. And illuminate.
Fortunately I just happened to have materials lying around to throw this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snake vs. Robosquirrel</title>
		<link>http://synapticnulship.com/blog/2012/02/05/snake-vs-robosquirrel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Kenyon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ethology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Animal behavior scientists are teaming up with engineers to devise new kinds of research tools: mechatronic animal models.
Or you could just call them robots.
Robosquirrel
Robosquirrel was made as part of a collaboration between UC Davis, West Chester University, and San Diego State University.
Is that a real squirrel?
Nope! Chuck Testa.
That was a joke&#8230;Chuck Testa was not involved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does a Chinese Boy Really have Nightvision Eyes?</title>
		<link>http://synapticnulship.com/blog/2012/01/31/does-a-chinese-boy-really-have-nightvision-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Kenyon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transhumanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutants]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://synapticnulship.com/blog/?p=1206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, no. But so many people seem to be taking this seriously that I felt the need to make a skeptical commentary on society&#8217;s desire for mutants (and the lack of skepticism in memes):

Alien Mutant Hybrid Has Super Cat Eyes That Glow In The Dark
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		<title>Social Games for Health Behavior Modification</title>
		<link>http://synapticnulship.com/blog/2012/01/16/health-behavior-modification-with-iphone-games/</link>
		<comments>http://synapticnulship.com/blog/2012/01/16/health-behavior-modification-with-iphone-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Kenyon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gamification is a topic I have mentioned not too long ago (see this post). Recently I attended a Boston CHI presentation by Chris Cartter called &#8220;The Socialization and Gamification of Health Behavior Change Apps.&#8221;
Gamification
One thing that Cartter said that sounds right, and may resonate with some of my readers, is that games are fuzzy, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seed and the Flower</title>
		<link>http://synapticnulship.com/blog/2011/12/30/the-seed-and-the-flower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Kenyon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[artificial intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transhumanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now I&#8217;m reading an architecture book from the 1970s called The Timeless Way of Building.  So far it has to do with theories of how towns and buildings and other things seem more &#8220;alive&#8221; than others, and how to achieve this quality&#8212;the &#8220;quality without a name&#8221;.
This of course goes far beyond merely architecture; indeed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recursion and the Human Mind</title>
		<link>http://synapticnulship.com/blog/2011/12/05/recursion-and-the-human-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Kenyon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cognitive science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evo-devo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gestures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recursion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s certainly not new to propose recursion as a key element of the human mind&#8212;for instance Douglas Hofstadter has been writing about that since the 1970s.
Michael C. Corballis, a former professor of psychology,  came out with a new book this year called The Recursive Mind. It explains his specific theory that I will attempt [...]]]></description>
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