by Ethan Watrall | Apr 22, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program
The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2016-2017 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowship program. The Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowships offer MSU graduate students in departments and programs with an emphasis on cultural...
by Nikki Silva | Apr 22, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In the past few weeks Autumn and I allowed some of our friends and family, with varying levels of archaeological experience, to view the site to see if it is user friendly. With some of their constructive comments, we first added some language to the intro pop-up to...
by jfelipe195 | Apr 14, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
BARDSS will allow scholars of Atlantic slavery to access data on hundreds of thousands of individual African slaves and their descendants who lived and died in Latin American slave societies. The quantity of data in BARDSS means that historians and social...
by Autumn Painter | Apr 12, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
As Nikki and I finish up the final touches on the Mapping Morton Village site, I focused on user interaction and navigation. One aspect of our site that we knew we wanted to include was an automatic (on page-load) popup modal to give an introduction to our site, see...
by Nikki Silva | Mar 30, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
During the past few weeks, we’ve focused on getting some technical aspects of the site figured out. I focused on making our images more interactive by giving each one Lightbox attributes, which makes the images/captions larger and ‘pop-out’ from the page. We also gave...
by jfelipe195 | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
This post explores the structure of BARDSS and, in particular, how we envision the user interface which might be launched by the end of April, 2016. BARDSS is divided into two main domains: the data entry/administrator interface and the user, search, and visualization...
by Tos_Ram | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
For my CHI project this year, I am building a website that will host stories of Xicano cultural survivance in Michigan. I’d like to take the opportunity with this blog post to give a preview of one story to be featured on that site. Enjoy! In 2004 my brother—stage...
by wargojon | Mar 13, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
My CHI project (#hearmyhome), uses sound to amplify what Steph Ceraso has called “multimodal listening,” a process that attends to the bodily, material, and contextual aspects of sonic interactions and relations. #hearmyhome uses the rhythmic resonances of everyday to...
by Bernard C. Moore | Mar 4, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
March 2013, Helsinki: I had the privilege to interview Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland and Nobel Prize Laureate, for my documentary film From Windhoek to Washington. From 1977 through 1981, Ahtisaari was the United Nations Special Representative for...
by Autumn Painter | Mar 3, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
We have made some major progress since Nikki’s post last week! Not only have we figured out our toggling layer problem, we have placed the interactive map into our website! While we still have some little things to keep working on and adding to the website, our...
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