Event - Green Unconference - This is an interesting event. I can't make it, but here's the home page -http://allsaintsla.org.uk/greenunconference2012/ - Saturday 27th Oct 10am - 6pm.
'Where - All Saints Church, Church Lane, Long Ashton, North Somerset. BS41 9LU
When - Saturday 27th October 2012 between 10am and 6pm (BST)
Chief Organiser - Daniel Lewis (Email: danieljohnlewis@gmail.com )
Assistant Organiser - Beki Lewis
Category - Unconference, Green, Environmentalism, Conservation, Sustainability
What is an Unconference?
An unconference is an informal meeting that is driven by its participants. Unconferences are always free to attend, they will try to form themselves without much funding and so are driven by the passion of a topic rather than money. They will often have talks & how-to's, stalls and a chance to do a little bit of new-contact meeting. They aren't attached to any particular organisations, and are usually not related to each other.'"
Friday, October 26, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Journal Paper - Driven Modelling: Visualisation and Systematic Interaction for end-user programming
A paper is being published on my PhD research, I'm lead author - Hale, P., Solomonides, A., Beeson, I., 2012. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing Volume 23 Issue 6 December 2012 354–379 - 'User-Driven Modelling: Visualisation and Systematic Interaction for end-user programming'.
The paper is online today - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045926X12000572.
The abstract and figures are available to all. Access to the full text depends on your personal or institutional entitlements.
I've submitted my version of this paper to the University of the West of England Research Repository and will include the link to it in this post when it's available.
The paper is online today - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045926X12000572.
The abstract and figures are available to all. Access to the full text depends on your personal or institutional entitlements.
I've submitted my version of this paper to the University of the West of England Research Repository and will include the link to it in this post when it's available.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Web access problems for unemployed and mentally ill
Over time as an activist in this aspect of health and computing I've noticed that the level of access of unemployed people of all ages, especially those that are unemployed or underemployed is very poor.
Both unemployed and mentally ill are at risk of having poor levels of web and technology access and use. The combination of both issues maximises this problems.
Charities do run schemes to try to tackle this issue but are overstretched for funding. Work programmes also look at these issue but only from the point of view of getting people ready for work. There are likely to be large numbers of mentally ill people (and those with other disabilities) that are not ready for work focused training. This group should not be left out of having training and assistance in getting and using technologies to access the web.
Isolation can make many mental health conditions worse. Web access would not solve this issue on it's own, what it does do however is to enable the sufferer to access websites of geoups that provide support and group based activities which can assist in tackling lonliness and depression.
Without more effort on the above solutions the at risk groups described above will be left as an isolated underclass.
Both unemployed and mentally ill are at risk of having poor levels of web and technology access and use. The combination of both issues maximises this problems.
Charities do run schemes to try to tackle this issue but are overstretched for funding. Work programmes also look at these issue but only from the point of view of getting people ready for work. There are likely to be large numbers of mentally ill people (and those with other disabilities) that are not ready for work focused training. This group should not be left out of having training and assistance in getting and using technologies to access the web.
Isolation can make many mental health conditions worse. Web access would not solve this issue on it's own, what it does do however is to enable the sufferer to access websites of geoups that provide support and group based activities which can assist in tackling lonliness and depression.
Without more effort on the above solutions the at risk groups described above will be left as an isolated underclass.
Monday, October 08, 2012
Tim Berners-Lee Interview - My Web course homework
This is an interesting interview by the BBC as part of their Virtual Revolution programme with Tim Berners-Lee - the inventor of the Web.
Video Clip - from The Virtual Revolution - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005cbgp - The Digital Revolution - Duration 12mins 13 secs - 27th Nov 2009.
"Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, 20 years ago. Since then he's been at the forefront of efforts to create web standards that mean we have one web worldwide. He's also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which strives for more widespread use of the web globally. Here he discusses how people think when using the web, and the 'spirit of the web'."
Video Clip - from The Virtual Revolution - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005cbgp - The Digital Revolution - Duration 12mins 13 secs - 27th Nov 2009.
"Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, 20 years ago. Since then he's been at the forefront of efforts to create web standards that mean we have one web worldwide. He's also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which strives for more widespread use of the web globally. Here he discusses how people think when using the web, and the 'spirit of the web'."
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