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Women in STEM, women in society , January 9, 2025
2024 : My year in blogs , December 27, 2024
Where’s Wiley? Finding the Fermat fella , December 9, 2024
Ruth Stalker-Fascinating , November 21, 2024
Eat, Pray, Artificial Love: The world of digital anthropology , November 4, 2024
Digital Anthropology , October 25, 2024
Fighting, typing, and computing , September 18, 2024
When women were computers , September 17, 2024
Xed by X , August 10, 2024
Yoga at the still point of the turning world , June 27, 2024
AI for the WI , May 9, 2024
Designing for transparency: The Futon Company , March 20, 2024
The complete works , January 30, 2024
My blogposts about women , January 9, 2024
2023: Top 10 blogs , December 6, 2023
ChatGPT, Macbeth, and me , November 24, 2023
So long Instagram, and thanks for all the pix , November 17, 2023
Feeling normal at the Transplant Games , September 19, 2023
Circles of Power: Patriarchy, tech, and tensions in Women’s Spaces , July 14, 2023
Backing up gmail without Takeout or Thunderbird , July 10, 2023
Human-computer 1.5: Upgrading the upgrade , July 4, 2023
Wrestling with Spiderman , July 3, 2023
Spiderman’s eight golden rules of interface design , May 23, 2023
Panel participant: Engendering Love Summit , May 8, 2023
Chit Chat, Chitty Chitty Chit Chat, ChatGPT , April 15, 2023
One baby-lecture at a time , March 31, 2023
Nepo baby: The Rise and Fall of Skywalker , January 25, 2023
Written on the body , January 2, 2023
A place of OKness , December 28, 2022
2022: My year in blogposts , December 23, 2022
A Christmas Gift , December 19, 2022
Dazzling yourself , December 14, 2022
Knowing your story , December 5, 2022
Homesick and restless , October 28, 2022
Mutherhood, menopause and mysticism , October 16, 2022
The Nonconformist , July 8, 2022
Learning to plaster , June 26, 2022
A birthday gift , May 20, 2022
The uncanny valley , May 15, 2022
La Belle Époque , March 24, 2022
A revelation of Ruths , February 18, 2022
Sign me up! I want to be a ballerina , February 12, 2022
Coding in Minecraft (4): Variables , February 8, 2022
Coding in Minecraft (3): Coordinates, confusion and collaboration , January 30, 2022
What’s my why? , January 29, 2022
Coding in Minecraft (2): Creating classrooms , January 17, 2022
Coding in Minecraft (1): Chicken rain and sky writing , January 10, 2022
Coding in Minecraft (0): Tenacity , January 9, 2022
Top blogs of 2021 , December 17, 2021
Free Guy: Our favourite AI , December 15, 2021
Escape: TV, online gaming, and me , November 5, 2021
Invested in your life , October 5, 2021
Social media: The persuasion and pervasion of branding , September 17, 2021
Designing dialogue , August 3, 2021
Painting from the soul bones , July 21, 2021
Udemy 101 , July 3, 2021
‘I will not cry’ by Sandra Richardson , June 17, 2021
Alternatives to creating safe spaces online , May 30, 2021
Written on my body, steeped in my heart , April 28, 2021
Greeting myself , March 13, 2021
Counting the days , February 16, 2021
Five years of Bikram yoga #lockdown , January 24, 2021
Bluebeard, Bridgerton and Brontes’s romantic heroes , January 15, 2021
Felt along the heart: My top blogs of 2020 , December 22, 2020
Heather James: artist , November 30, 2020
Anyone can do human-computer interaction , November 24, 2020
5 minute Tarot: Stories, archetypes and energy , November 18, 2020
Blogs about my Human-computer interaction course on Udemy , November 12, 2020
Fairytale medicine , November 5, 2020
Data transformation , November 3, 2020
The cave of my heart , October 22, 2020
The heart of human-computer interaction , October 16, 2020
Call me Rurg , October 15, 2020
Gaming , October 10, 2020
How I created an online course , October 7, 2020
Social media as theatre , September 30, 2020
A one minute guide to creating a user persona , September 17, 2020
Ways to look at social media , September 11, 2020
WordPress Multisites , August 25, 2020
My udemy course on Human-computer interaction , August 15, 2020
101 ways to think about HCI , August 13, 2020
Creating an online course as an eternal student , August 12, 2020
20 dreams , July 29, 2020
Blue sky thinking , July 15, 2020
When UML gets hairy , June 26, 2020
Four years of Bikram yoga #lockdown , June 18, 2020
A Gacha guide to social anxiety on social media , May 28, 2020
Artificial Intelligence: Ghosts, Robots, Data , May 16, 2020
Blogs On Yoga , May 16, 2020
Feeling in glorious technicolor , April 18, 2020
Genre tripping in Westworld , April 14, 2020
Maslow , April 12, 2020
My year in blogposts , April 11, 2020
My Blogpost Series , April 5, 2020
Maslow’s hierarchy for women? , March 30, 2020
Difficult , March 29, 2020
Stardust and supermoons , March 9, 2020
Teaching my girls how to code in python , February 26, 2020
The heart of computer programming , February 17, 2020
Giving your python a bob martin’s , February 9, 2020
BikBot: Designing a bikram robot , February 2, 2020
Westworld: Robots and 10,247 lines of code , January 22, 2020
Storytelling with AI and machine learning , January 17, 2020
Tutorial: A quick guide to data mining on Twitter , January 13, 2020
Myth making in machine learning , December 26, 2019
Just like me , December 9, 2019
Resonance , December 3, 2019
38.5 hours and 51,426 words hath November , November 30, 2019
Pooh: Thirty Days Hath November , November 25, 2019
Lost the plot: Thirty Days hath November , November 18, 2019
A Third of Thirty Days , November 8, 2019
30 Days Hath November , October 31, 2019
2019: Top 10 blogs , October 26, 2019
2019: Top 10 blogs or the story in the stats , October 25, 2019
The accidental techie (10): Finished , October 24, 2019
The accidental techie (9): Creating , October 17, 2019
The accidental techie (8): 20/20 , October 14, 2019
The accidental techie (7): Lost and found , October 13, 2019
Social anxiety and emotional resonance on social media , October 11, 2019
The accidental techie (6): Going inside , October 5, 2019
Comfort , September 13, 2019
Our love affair with big data , August 22, 2019
The accidental techie (5): Shadowing , July 5, 2019
The accidental techie (4): Flow , June 29, 2019
The accidental techie (3): Transference California , June 25, 2019
The accidental techie (2) : The not invited , June 24, 2019
The accidental techie (1) : Dazzling confidence , June 18, 2019
The inner life: Tarot and technology , April 18, 2019
Three years of Bikram yoga , March 20, 2019
Westworld and the ghosts of AI , March 6, 2019
Social anxiety on social media , February 18, 2019
My top blogs of 2018 , December 23, 2018
Alone Together three years on: Is social media changing us? , December 5, 2018
Talking heads , November 28, 2018
Let’s talk! #broadcastsfrommybooth , November 20, 2018
Privacy , October 14, 2018
Sociability amongst strangers , September 14, 2018
Social computing: Tribes and tribulations , July 19, 2018
Human-Computer Interaction Conclusions: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (6) , July 8, 2018
Productive or Experiential? Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (5) , June 30, 2018
Codependency or Collaboration? Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (4) , June 14, 2018
User or Used? Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (3) , June 4, 2018
My grey hair two years on , May 28, 2018
Let’s Talk! Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (2) , May 20, 2018
Human-Computer Interaction : Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (1) , May 13, 2018
Thou shalt not: The Ten Commandments of Social Media (2) , May 9, 2018
Virtual Presence: Where do we go when we go online? , May 8, 2018
Thou shalt not: The Ten Commandments of Social Media , May 3, 2018
Connection online: Tracing the space between us , April 28, 2018
The ghosts of AI , February 21, 2018
Human-computer interaction, cyberpsychology and core disciplines , February 12, 2018
Society of the mind: A Rhumba of Ruths , January 31, 2018
Sit. Feast on your blogs , January 27, 2018
My name is Ruth , January 20, 2018
Connection: Lighting the fire , January 15, 2018
The Connection Economy: Memail, dodgy movies, and me , December 18, 2017
My top blogs 2017: Stories, statistics, and social media , December 11, 2017
Women (Conclusions): Society, Storytelling, Technology (9) , December 9, 2017
Women and girls on social media: Society, Storytelling, Technology (8) , December 7, 2017
Women in Tech: Society, Storytelling, Technology (7) , November 29, 2017
Women and religion: Society, Storytelling, Technology (6) , November 13, 2017
Women as superheroes: Society, Storytelling, Technology (5) , October 18, 2017
Women’s work: Society, Storytelling, Technology (4) , October 14, 2017
Women’s health: Society, Storytelling, Technology (3) , October 12, 2017
Women’s bodies: Society, Storytelling, Technology (2) , September 9, 2017
Women: Society, Storytelling, Technology (1) , August 16, 2017
Creating space (5): When people can’t stand you , July 19, 2017
Creating space (4): Invasion, expansion and girls , July 9, 2017
Creating space (3): Authenticity , July 3, 2017
Creating space (2): In daily life , June 21, 2017
Creating space , June 20, 2017
When the Internet becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it , May 29, 2017
Trusting technology, ourselves, and others , May 9, 2017
Is this progress? Humans, computers and stories , March 29, 2017
Designing story (5): Possession, the relations between minds , March 23, 2017
Designing story (4): Women , March 19, 2017
Designing story (3): Archetypes and aesthetics , March 5, 2017
Designing story (2) : Structure , March 1, 2017
Maslow’s hierarchy of chakras , February 19, 2017
Designing story (1): The intimacy of the written word , January 29, 2017
Web design (5): Structure , January 19, 2017
Game theory & social media marketing (4): Conclusions , January 14, 2017
Game theory & social media (3): What are you playing at? , January 10, 2017
Game theory in social media marketing (2): Customers and competitors , January 7, 2017
Game theory in social media (1): Fate and power , December 27, 2016
Yoga Lessons: A year in front of Bikram’s mirrors , December 24, 2016
My top 10 blogs 2016 , December 23, 2016
Fifty shades of my grey hair , December 19, 2016
The Connection Economy: Memail, mixtapes and fortune cookies , December 13, 2016
Stories, Semantics and the Web of Data , December 11, 2016
Carpe diem: Travels without my phone , December 1, 2016
Semiotics: Finding meaning in storytelling , November 14, 2016
Moments in modern technology , November 11, 2016
Storytelling: Intimacy, privacy and social media , October 24, 2016
Gaming: Storytelling and ludology , October 17, 2016
Designing design: Conclusions , October 14, 2016
Designing design: Solution spaces , October 14, 2016
Designing design: Style and standards , October 13, 2016
Designing design: Colour , October 12, 2016
Designing design: Great expectations , October 8, 2016
Designing design: Attractive things work better , October 5, 2016
Designing design: Types and schemas , October 3, 2016
Designing design: The medium is the message , September 29, 2016
Designing design: No function in structure , September 26, 2016
Designing design: Form follows function , September 23, 2016
Designing design: Function, behaviour, structure , September 22, 2016
Designing design: The science of the artificial , September 21, 2016
Web design (2): Get the picture , July 29, 2016
Conclusions: The limits of the social animal on social media (9) , July 19, 2016
Liking, loving and interpersonal sensitivity: The social animal on social media (8) , June 10, 2016
Prejudice: The social animal on social media (7) , April 29, 2016
Yoga lessons: More Bikram wisdom , April 23, 2016
Aggression: The social animal on social media (6) , April 20, 2016
Storytelling: Narrative, Databases, and Big Data , April 14, 2016
Self-justification: The Social Animal on Social Media (5) , April 1, 2016
Yoga Lessons: Bikram wisdom , March 19, 2016
Social Cognition: The Social Animal on Social Media (4) , March 14, 2016
Propaganda and Persuasion: The Social Animal on Social Media (3) , February 11, 2016
Conformity: The Social Animal on Social Media (2) , February 7, 2016
Women in Storytelling – Star Wars: The Force Awakens , January 31, 2016
Yoga Lessons: Bikram one year on , January 30, 2016
Social Psychology: The Social Animal on Social Media (1) , January 20, 2016
Katie Hopkins’s #fatstory one year on , January 18, 2016
Storytelling in technology: The myth of progress , January 8, 2016
2015: Top 10 blogs , January 2, 2016
Storyboarding tales, technology and my CV , December 9, 2015
Women in Storytelling: Saint, Spy, Suffragette , December 3, 2015
How stories matter , November 14, 2015
Writing a blog series , October 22, 2015
Web design (7): Evaluation , October 16, 2015
Web design (6): Sharing and caring on social media , October 9, 2015
Web design (4): Being content with your content , October 3, 2015
Web design (3): Getting to grips with your user’s experience , September 29, 2015
Web design (1): What’s the story? , September 16, 2015
Digital Culture , September 12, 2015
Simplexity and the Internet of Things , September 5, 2015
Love the machine, don’t rage against it , August 27, 2015
Feeding the machine: The embodied human in a social media world , August 23, 2015
Writing fast and slow , August 4, 2015
Card Sorting: Anyone for a game of cards , July 27, 2015
Ritual: Feast on your life , July 9, 2015
Mind the gap! Or, is it watch this space? , July 7, 2015
Augmenting humans with social media , May 27, 2015
Social media explained , May 10, 2015
Travels with my phone , May 1, 2015
Alone together: Is social media changing us? , April 22, 2015
Maslow’s hierarchy of social media , April 14, 2015
Bikram: Heat is the way to inner peace , March 5, 2015
Katie Hopkins’s #myfatstory is a story of vulnerability , January 5, 2015
Ambivalent web design , October 23, 2014
Social media security: Sharing is caring? , June 3, 2014
Yoga Lessons: Life on the edge , January 23, 2014
Is there anybody out there? (Or why do I blog?) , December 29, 2013
Web design (0): The science of communication , December 12, 2013
Women Centre Stage , October 29, 2013
Beautiful content by Bitstrips , October 27, 2013
Emerging Technologies: What’s the story? , August 6, 2013
Emerging technologies: New ways for shared experiences , July 28, 2013
Mindfulness: The love within your love , July 21, 2013
Emerging Technologies: OWN the technology , July 13, 2013
The view from my yoga mat , July 13, 2013
Storytelling: The hero’s quest , May 17, 2013
Storytelling and embodiment: The stories we tell ourselves , December 18, 2012
Storytelling: The power of fiction , December 12, 2012
Experience: Where am I? Where have I been? Where am I going? , October 18, 2012
Chemotherapy: The year of my hair , October 3, 2012
Experiencing embodiment , February 24, 2012
Upgrading your embodiment , August 6, 2011
The power of the written word , July 23, 2011
Get stuffed Stuff Magazine , July 15, 2011
Goodbye Kubrick, hello twenty ten , July 14, 2011
Augmented or virtual: Is your reality working or wearing? , December 30, 2008
An error occurred while processing this directive , October 11, 2008
Running two versions of wordpress , March 17, 2008
Jasmine , February 17, 2008
Newspaper Cuttings: Representing Switzerland , December 14, 2007
User motivation: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs , December 5, 2007
Cognitive Science: What makes your users tick , November 28, 2007
Security and usability: Don’t let your users get you down , November 15, 2007
Getting your hands on Apple’s iPhone , November 8, 2007
Checklists , November 6, 2007
Why task analysis doesn’t do it for me , October 26, 2007
Codebreaking: Humans are the weakest link , October 21, 2007
Cognitive Science for IT Security , August 29, 2007
Who ordered pizza? , July 27, 2007
Human-computer interaction: Can you see what it is yet? , June 21, 2007
Visualisation: Information is power – just avoid drowning in data , June 10, 2007
Inside Your Users’ Mind: The Cultural Probe , June 10, 2007
Engineer-Computer Interaction for Structural Monitoring , May 27, 2007
Interaction ingénieur-machine pour les auscultations des ouvrages , May 27, 2007
Semiotics: It’s a sign! , May 24, 2007
Function-behaviour-structure for website design , May 15, 2007
Digital Web: Anyone for a game of cards? , May 15, 2007
Is the future of techology to be found in fiction? , May 5, 2007
Design creativity: harnessing your inner genius , April 18, 2007
The eight tasks in an artefact lifecycle , April 5, 2007
Inside Your Users’ Mind: The Cultural Probe , April 3, 2007
Design using function, behaviour, structure , March 27, 2007
WordPress groupie: blogging, fiddling, loving it , March 18, 2007
Using patterns to shape our world , March 9, 2007
Are computers making us stupid? , March 1, 2007
Stalkers in space and Facebook in your face , February 20, 2007
Designing with the future in mind: The Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough , February 15, 2007
Why my coffee machine is so sexy , February 6, 2007
Augmenting referees – why didn’t Piero help Uriah? , January 28, 2007
In control of self-assessment , January 23, 2007
Favicon creators , January 16, 2007
WordPress , January 14, 2007
Card sort analysis using a spreadsheet , December 23, 2006
My Sony NW-E002 MP3 Player , December 11, 2006
Apple TV , December 3, 2006
Humax PVR-9200T Freeview recorder , November 21, 2006
I love LaTeX , November 14, 2006
Publications , November 5, 2006