by Emily Niespodziewanski | Aug 31, 2012 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
Well, kids, it’s finally here. Please, allow me to present the mobile web app version of: TALUS! Check it out on your smartphone or shrink down a browser window to see it in reasonable dimensions. I set out with a pretty clear vision of the product I wanted to...
by Emily Niespodziewanski | Aug 7, 2012 | CHI Fellowship Program
Recently, I visited the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC/CIL) at Hickam Joint Base in Honolulu, Hawaii. (For another post chronicling my personal experiences, click here.) Although the big name is complex, you might guess from...
by Emily Niespodziewanski | Jul 11, 2012 | CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Project Info
Going into building TALUS, I had minimal understanding of programming. Maybe in the 90s, I learned that if you surround text with <b> and </b>, that text will be bolded. And something about the existence of a hexadecimal number code system (weird). But...
by Emily Niespodziewanski | Apr 7, 2012 | CHI Fellowship Program
For a while now, I’ve been listening in on discussion in Digital Humanities about the pros and cons of digital dissertations. From Seventeen Moments in Soviet History to a master’s thesis on composer Henry Cowell, my colleagues have promoted the digitization of...
by Emily Niespodziewanski | Feb 16, 2012 | CHI Articles & Discussions
Social media is largely overlooked by physical anthropologists. This is due in part to the nature of the data that goes into research. Someone studying vitamin A deficiency in infants in relation to the mother in Kenya does not need to use social media to interview or...
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