Event

Bada Challenge Competition

We’re participating in the bada Student Developers Challenge 2011/12 – the ultimate coding challenge event run across the UK & Ireland in connection with other universities leading the way in Computer Sciences.
Giving student coders from first year to masters the chance to create their own Apps for Samsungs new bada platform and have those very apps uploaded to their stores. Whilst doing so, impressing people from one of the worlds biggest mobile phone manufacturers and standing the chance of winning a share of a £15,000 prize fund.

Event details

  • When: 29th September 2011 14:00 - 15:30
  • Where: Honey 104 - Hons Lab

Design, Agency and a Sense of Wellbeing by Ann Light

Abstract:

In Capability and Wellbeing, Sen (1993) says that acting freely and being able to choose may be directly conducive to wellbeing, not just because more freedom may make better alternatives available, but because the action of choice is itself a freedom. This talk reflects on three projects with older people and considers their sense of agency in thinking about interactive systems and future technologies, looking particularly at how agency might contribute to a sense of wellbeing. Although a theme running through the talk is the design of digital tools, the discussion takes a broad view of the factors to be considered in human-computer interaction.

Sen, Amartya. (1993). Capability and Well-Being. In M. Nussbaum and A. Sen, eds. The Quality of Life, pp. 30–53. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Event details

  • When: 28th November 2011 14:00 - 15:00
  • Where: Phys Theatre C
  • Series: CS Colloquia Series
  • Format: Colloquium