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Welcome to the online Portfolio of Eilidh Dickson
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Eilidh Dickson is currently based in Denmark studying at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) She is currently working on her final year project, where she is investigating how personal informatics can be used as a tool to help people live a more balanced life (click to see her progress) This Website shows a selection of projects from her time at CIID so far and from previous studies and work.
As well as this website Eilidh has a blog which she has been keeping since September 2008. It is used to record her everyday work and inspiration at CIID, a way of documenting her process and development throughout the projects she works on and for reflecting on her learning.
News...
FINAL PROJECT REVIEW
23rd June 2009
Yesterday at CIID we started our midway reviews for our final projects. Instead of having open presentations, we are having 2 hour working sessions with our adviser and an external faculty member. The first 20 minutes was spent presenting our research, design challenge and concepts so far and the rest of the time was to discuss next steps and iterations. The presentation below shows what i presented along with a scenario for my concept.
See scenario photographs here.
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BACK TO THESIS
9th June 2009
For the last two weeks we have been working on our final industry project at CIID, but now it is back to thesis work! For the last few days i have been collating all my insights from my research and trying to make sense of it all! My aim for this weekend is to:
1. Select the most intriguing/inspiring and surprising quotes from each respondant that i did not anticipate.
2. Identify underlying themes - when more than one person is saying similar things.
3. Try to formulate 'how might we' questions based on this themes and see if they are interesting enough challenges for design.
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DESIGN FOR SERVICE
6th May 2009
During the Easter holidays Interaction Designer Jeff Howard interviewed me on our past Service Design course at CIID, taught by Simona Maschi and Brian Rink. For me this was really exciting as the Design for Service website that Jeff writes for has been a great reference to me while i have been exploring the world of service design! The interview got published here today.
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POST NEXT No.6 EXCITMENT
23rd April 2009
Now we are back at CIID after the easter holidays things have started to calm down a little. Before the Easter break some of us from CIID were exhibiting our TUI projects at the NEXT conference in Arhus organised by the Innovation Lab. Mimi has put together a great video of the weeked. Thanks Mimi, great job!
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EILIDH@JOHNNY HOLLAND
19th April 2009
I am very happy to say that i have just had my first article published on the online magazine ‘johnny holland’. Johnny Holland is an open collective exploring the interactions of experience design. The first article i wrote was on the emerging field of personal informatics. You can check it out here.
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'GODMORGEN DENMARK' VIDEO
1st April 2009
......and here is the video from meet the food you eat on Good Morning Denmark.
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'MEET THE FOOD YOU EAT' ON 'GODMORGEN DENMARK'
30th March 2009
Tomorrow morning Sid, Adam and myself will be embarking on an adventure to the TV2 studio in Copenhagen. Innovation Lab’s Founder, Preben Mejer, will be on “God Morgen Danmark” discussing the NEXT conference and exhibition where four of the Pilot Year projects will be shown. Meet the Food you Eat will be featured on the show which will air between 6.30-9.00 on TV2. So right now we are finishing last minute calibration and wiring changes. Wish us luck!!
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CIID@NEXT No. 6 EXHIBITION
2nd April 2009
"NEXT no. 6 is held in Århus on April 2+3+4+5 2009 as part conference, part exhibition. A dozen of the most daunting international minds on business, technology and invention will take the conference stage. And 100 of the most perspectivating, forward facing and unexpected uses of new technology is drawn from research labs, startups, and R&D facilities from around the globe, to be showcased, tried, discussed and probably fixed a few times during the four day exhibition".....Innovation Lab.dk
Four Interaction Design Pilot Year projects will be shown in the exhibition: BunnyBot, Calen3dar, Compound Eye and our very own Meet the Food you Eat!
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MEET THE FOOD YOU EAT ON TREE HUGGER
16th February
Today Adam, Sid and i were super excited to see that our Project had been featured on Treehugger This was really great for us as throughout the project we had used this website as one of our keys sources of information, data and inspiration. Since the end of our TUI project we have been overwhelmed by the support and feedback we have been given with regards to our idea. It’s really great to see people getting excited about sustainability, and really caring about how their actions are having an affect on society.
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Eilidh Dickson Interaction Designer