Prism Reflectη: Visual Tumblr Diary

Fear in change

I now have a tumblr blog filled with a collection of photos taken by me of my life!

Copenhagen Service Design Jam ’12

I organised/hosted (with Persona master, Lene Nielsen) the Copenhagen location for the Global Service Design Jam 2012 at ITU. It was held from 22nd-24th of February and individuals from many different backgrounds took part to create solutions to the theme “hidden treasures”. It was a fantastic and tiring weekend for all! Thanks to all that participated (25) and came up with the 4 concepts.

Check out the Flickr group photos

Sustainable Materialism service designs

The “Sustainable Materialism” research was an exploration into understanding the social influences that drive an individual’s materialistic behaviour, and then using that understanding to develop interaction design solutions that reflect on materialism and promote sustainable behaviour, and lifestyles, through services. It drew heavily on the elements of materialism (being materialistic), and how these elements, embedded into our social structures and surroundings, help feed a perception of one-self through identity management. I hypothesised that service designs require methods to: (A) not only create reflection on elements attached to being materialistic; (B) but also use the attractiveness and strengths of these elements to promote positives in the use of sustainable driven services. (…)

Sustainable Materialism

Master’s thesis cover. The “Sustainable Materialism” research was an exploration into understanding the social influences that drive an individual’s materialistic behaviour, and then using that understanding to develop interaction design solutions that reflect on materialism and promote sustainable behaviour, and lifestyles, through interaction design based service solutions.

Decreasing sexually transmitted diseases: paving the way for an alternative solution for the LGBT community

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are continuing to increase at alarming rates around the globe. Various reasons have been proposed as to why infection numbers are not stabilising; particularly in Europe, Australia and Asian regions (Hill-Jones and Noble, 2009). The heterosexual communities in the age-group 18-29, and even more in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi and tran-sexual) community have the largest increase in recent years (WHO, 2008). The exact figures of infections is quite difficult to obtain; as governmental bodies around the world have inconsistencies in surveillance techniques of new infections and, of course, infections that have not been treated or picked up go untraced (WHO, 2008). (…)

*WHY DONOR I? service solution: OpenIDEO

*a play on the question “why don’t I?” (donate) and tapping into the expanding mobile application era + service designs as a motivator to increase donors.*

A location based service solution that concentrates on using local donor information, collected through the service, to help promote and bring a sense of presence (and community connection) to the people that live and commute around you and their experiences in becoming bone marrow donors. The service eases the donor process by providing up-to-date simple visualised donor information. In the end, this will help to demystify the myths of the donor process and increase new donors.

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Designing digital technologies for communities that reflect on practice

This is an excerpt from my recent PhD study plan (October 2011). It outlines the current direction of my PhD research.

There is no doubt that we are currently in the age of a strong participatory culture(Shirky, 2011). The Internet has turned into a platform that enables any individual to create and contribute collectively to an entourage of communities of interest stemming from the beginnings of open source software era (O ’ Mahony & West, 2008). (…)

See beyond the fear in change – Coffee Break (nineteen)

Interview with Mediafront, Norway:

We invite colleagues, competitors, clients and other skilled people from (or relevant for) the industry, for a coffee. Todays guest is Aaron, from Melbourne, but he is currently living in Malmö, Sweden; transiting daily to work in Copenhagen, Denmark. After his education at The University of Melbourne Aaron completed his Masters in Interaction Design at K3, Malmö University; his thesis was on designing services for reflection on unsustainable outcomes. (…)