This is the research diary of researcher Lisbeth
Klastrup, since february 2001 sharing her thoughts on life, universe, persistent online
worlds, games, interactive stories and internet oddities with you on the www.
I am currently on leave from the IT University
of Copenhagen, and from aug. 2006 - aug. 2007 working as Associate Research Professor at the Center for Design Research Copenhagen, an independant center situated at the School of Architecture. During this year, I will be working on a book about the development of aesthetics, design and interaction on the WWW, together with colleague Ida Engholm.
My blog often reflects how busy I am in general, so posting may be pretty irregular, as well as my potential response to comments. But I read them!
My list of publications.
My official homepage at ITU.
Contact:
lisbethATklastrupDOTdk
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©Lisbeth Klastrup 2001-2007
Skal vi leke eller lege?
So like and yet so different. For the Norwegians and Danes in the reading audience, here is an astute little essay about some of the linguistic (and cultural) differences between Denmark and Norway, written by a Norwegian living in Denmark (partner of a colleague).
Danske forviklinger.
I think Espen Aarseth, my Norwegian colleague here at ITU and recently arrived in Denmark, can sympatise with Håkons woes. He's been joking about the difficulties of buying bread in Danish shops - Norwegians pronounce the word for bread somewhat differently from the Danish word (brød [broeth]) - so when he asks for "brø", the Danes just can't get it or even switch into English, unless he does a very exagerated pronounciation of the word. Crossing a border, even just homogenous Scandinavia, isn't always as easy as one may think.
So like and yet so different. For the Norwegians and Danes in the reading audience, here is an astute little essay about some of the linguistic (and cultural) differences between Denmark and Norway, written by a Norwegian living in Denmark (partner of a colleague).
Danske forviklinger.
I think Espen Aarseth, my Norwegian colleague here at ITU and recently arrived in Denmark, can sympatise with Håkons woes. He's been joking about the difficulties of buying bread in Danish shops - Norwegians pronounce the word for bread somewhat differently from the Danish word (brød [broeth]) - so when he asks for "brø", the Danes just can't get it or even switch into English, unless he does a very exagerated pronounciation of the word. Crossing a border, even just homogenous Scandinavia, isn't always as easy as one may think.
Life in There
Of course, a world like There.com would be hosting a website called: Life in There - real news for a virtual world
Of course, a world like There.com would be hosting a website called: Life in There - real news for a virtual world
A student, I used to supervise (I think...) has publised a master's dissertation on journalism on the net, with a basis in hypertext theory and webusability studies. Here is an article, describing some of the findings and giving some good advice on online journalistic writing: Speciale: Netaviser kan levere mere objektive nyheder.
The article is in Danish, but provides a link to the English abstract of his dissertation.
The article is in Danish, but provides a link to the English abstract of his dissertation.
Play:Right is a Danish gamers site which claims to hold the largest archive of Danish Game Reviews online. Otherwise primarily looking at console games.
A short Danish article in the online mag Bitconomy on amongst other items, advergaming. The writer writes about a phenomena, he coins (?) e-promos.
Kan gimmicks, spil og konkurrencer skabe resultater på B2B markedet?
Kan gimmicks, spil og konkurrencer skabe resultater på B2B markedet?
Go Jill!
Jill has received notice that her thesis has been accepted for defense. Congratulations! (we never doubted that of course it would be accepted :)). I wonder what green-eyed monster it is, that often forces us to focus more on the bad things that the good things in reviews. Jill is doing the right thing by in the end sticking to all the positive comments.
Think of it in this way: the critical comments are there to help you think and rethink aspects of your work in order to be able to engage in a fruitful dialogue with some rather smart people who are very interested in your work. Because, if they weren't really interested in your work, they wouldn't be in your committee!
I hope to go to Bergen, so I can report almost live from the event (need to figure out how to sms to my blog...)
Jill has received notice that her thesis has been accepted for defense. Congratulations! (we never doubted that of course it would be accepted :)). I wonder what green-eyed monster it is, that often forces us to focus more on the bad things that the good things in reviews. Jill is doing the right thing by in the end sticking to all the positive comments.
Think of it in this way: the critical comments are there to help you think and rethink aspects of your work in order to be able to engage in a fruitful dialogue with some rather smart people who are very interested in your work. Because, if they weren't really interested in your work, they wouldn't be in your committee!
I hope to go to Bergen, so I can report almost live from the event (need to figure out how to sms to my blog...)
InteractiveNarratives.org
A blog for Interactive Narratives, looks interesting, but difficult to figure out what the writers' take on this is...
Via Danish online journalist Kim Elmose's blog (and he blogs, though not often, in both Danish & English, respect!)
A blog for Interactive Narratives, looks interesting, but difficult to figure out what the writers' take on this is...
Via Danish online journalist Kim Elmose's blog (and he blogs, though not often, in both Danish & English, respect!)
Yet another surprise encounter with the Danish Tax System
Today I got a letter from the Danish Tax Office. Someone in office 3, the L-group, has discovered some inconsistencies in my tax payment scheme from 2001. This time it looks like this inconsistency is actually to my advantage, so I don't complain. I am still just amazed that there are people employed by the tax system to do this kind of work. Once before, many years ago, after I moved to Copenhagen, I was also tracked down by the tax office in my hometown, because they, something like two or three years too late, figured out I owed them some money for a service, they rendered me. So at the time I had to pay money for something I had completely forgotten about.
Is Big Brother watching me or do I just live in a very fair and square society? I haven't figured out the answer yet.
Today I got a letter from the Danish Tax Office. Someone in office 3, the L-group, has discovered some inconsistencies in my tax payment scheme from 2001. This time it looks like this inconsistency is actually to my advantage, so I don't complain. I am still just amazed that there are people employed by the tax system to do this kind of work. Once before, many years ago, after I moved to Copenhagen, I was also tracked down by the tax office in my hometown, because they, something like two or three years too late, figured out I owed them some money for a service, they rendered me. So at the time I had to pay money for something I had completely forgotten about.
Is Big Brother watching me or do I just live in a very fair and square society? I haven't figured out the answer yet.
Denmark victorious in Cybersports!
A Danish Team "Team 9" made it as nr. 3 in the official world championships in Counterstrike at the World Cyber Games), according to this article in Politiken. The article also links to the full interview with the Danish team. Btw, the Swedes won. Damnation.
A Danish Team "Team 9" made it as nr. 3 in the official world championships in Counterstrike at the World Cyber Games), according to this article in Politiken. The article also links to the full interview with the Danish team. Btw, the Swedes won. Damnation.
Anthology- Anxieties
This week has been the Danish Autumn Holidays, so I have primarily worked at home, and also taken some time off to do stuff with my family. However, I am also svamped in work with the anthology, I am editing with colleague Ida Engholm so haven't had much time to write in this space.
The title is Digital Aesthetics & Design and the manuscript has to be finished and on the publisher's desk on November 1st. Currently I am finishing up my own article, translating some of the English-language articles and proof-reading all the other incoming articles. A lot of work, but great fun mostly :). I have been feeling really iffy about the anthology until very recently, because people hadn't delivered their articles and I just couldn't see how we could make it, but now it seems like we might make the deadline after all. Provided I translate more or less non-stop for the next week or so, but that's ok.
Off to bed. My Danglish is deteriorating.
This week has been the Danish Autumn Holidays, so I have primarily worked at home, and also taken some time off to do stuff with my family. However, I am also svamped in work with the anthology, I am editing with colleague Ida Engholm so haven't had much time to write in this space.
The title is Digital Aesthetics & Design and the manuscript has to be finished and on the publisher's desk on November 1st. Currently I am finishing up my own article, translating some of the English-language articles and proof-reading all the other incoming articles. A lot of work, but great fun mostly :). I have been feeling really iffy about the anthology until very recently, because people hadn't delivered their articles and I just couldn't see how we could make it, but now it seems like we might make the deadline after all. Provided I translate more or less non-stop for the next week or so, but that's ok.
Off to bed. My Danglish is deteriorating.
Fun interaction...
Last friday I gave a lecture on Aesthetics and Interactivity on Mads' and Martin's cool course on Digital Aesthetics & Communication. In the exercises (classes at ITU are comprised of 3 hours lectures/classroom based discussion and then 2 hours exercises), we looked at the Danish Artgroup Oncotype's interactive DVD movie Switching (launched April 2003) and Australian Andrew Hutchinson et als interactive story of images, Juvenate.
It was puzzling to observe, that what interested the students the most and finally made a good deal of them stand around a small screen, telling the interactor what to do next, was either of the above, but a webgame/story that Martin referred us to in the break. It is a nifty little piece.
It hasn't really got a name, so I named it The Tree-Thing
Btw. I am trying to work more with interaction as a functional device in digital works. So for the lecture, I tried to outline some different motivations for interaction (partly inspired by Peacock) and then tried to relate these to some concrete pieces (Jill gave the URLs for some of those, thanks!). I made the students come up individually and try out the different pieces, which worked well. In this way I was able to both talk about interactivity in general and comment on what they were doing without having to concentrate on navigating the work myself. I think I will try this more in the future :)
Perhaps you can find something of interest in my slides (3 MB). I'd love to hear some comments, at least.
Last friday I gave a lecture on Aesthetics and Interactivity on Mads' and Martin's cool course on Digital Aesthetics & Communication. In the exercises (classes at ITU are comprised of 3 hours lectures/classroom based discussion and then 2 hours exercises), we looked at the Danish Artgroup Oncotype's interactive DVD movie Switching (launched April 2003) and Australian Andrew Hutchinson et als interactive story of images, Juvenate.
It was puzzling to observe, that what interested the students the most and finally made a good deal of them stand around a small screen, telling the interactor what to do next, was either of the above, but a webgame/story that Martin referred us to in the break. It is a nifty little piece.
It hasn't really got a name, so I named it The Tree-Thing
Btw. I am trying to work more with interaction as a functional device in digital works. So for the lecture, I tried to outline some different motivations for interaction (partly inspired by Peacock) and then tried to relate these to some concrete pieces (Jill gave the URLs for some of those, thanks!). I made the students come up individually and try out the different pieces, which worked well. In this way I was able to both talk about interactivity in general and comment on what they were doing without having to concentrate on navigating the work myself. I think I will try this more in the future :)
Perhaps you can find something of interest in my slides (3 MB). I'd love to hear some comments, at least.
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Conferences
ACE 2007
Mobile Media 2007
MobileCHI 07
Perth DAC 2007
DIGRA 2007
AOIR 8.0/2007
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My Ph.D. thesis website:
Towards a Poetics of Virtual Worlds
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Misc
I also used to host & work in a world called StoryMOO.