Now that the hype has died down and I had some time to recover, it’s about time I write something about the mind-blowing experience that has been “Magic Is Might 2012”, the conference that Gráinne O’Brien of the Department of Sociology and myself organised here at UL a couple of weeks ago. I say mind-blowing…… Continue reading The Might of Magic

We have extended the submission deadline to the special issue we are preparing for the CSCW Journal as part of the NWL Project. Full Call for papers is below! CSCW Journal Special Issue: Work Practices, Nomadicity and the Mediational Role of Technology Special issue editors: Luigina Ciolfi (Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Luigina.Ciolfi@ul.ie) Ap. Fabiano Pinatti…… Continue reading CfP JCSCW Special Issue: Work Practices, Nomadicity and the Mediational Role of Technology

As many of you probably know by now, I am quite the Potterhead :). As well as that, I am also co-organising a conference on the cultural impact that the Harry Potter books and films have had in the years between the publication of the first novel in the series (in 1997) to date. I…… Continue reading “The Making of Harry Potter” Exhibition

Had a great few days in Marseille attending COOP 2012, 10th International  Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems. The theme this year was “From research to practice: Results and open challenges”, and indeed there was an excellent variety of papers covering the entire space between field studies and design and evaluation. The program featured work on…… Continue reading COOP 2012

This week I visited Linköping University where I was invited by the Interaction and Service Design Research Group to give a talk on my research. It was a really interesting visit as I had not been at Linköping University before and I got a chance to take a tour of the campus (and admire some interesting architecture!)…… Continue reading Research Talk at Linköping University