In Proceedings of the Annual Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Sharing stories “in the wild”: A mobile storytelling case study. A purposeful approach to the constant comparative method in the analysis of qualitative interviews. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Designing the reading experience for scanned multi-lingual picture books on mobile phones. In Qualitative Researching with Text, Image, and Sound. Organizational research: Determining appropriate sample size in survey research. An introduction to the structural analysis of narrative. Integrating the iPod Touch in K-12 education: Visions and vices. Clover: Connecting technology and character education using personally-constructed animated vignettes. Bailey, B., Tettegah, S., and Bradley, T.We include a discussion of the challenges and opportunities that similar “in the wild” studies hold for HCI research. Our results show that StoryKit’s simple but well-integrated interface attracted a high number of dedicated users in education contexts at all levels, including children with special learning needs. By taking advantage of a public distribution channel, we were able to evaluate StoryKit’s use on a scale beyond that usually found in lab settings or limited field trials. We detail a long-term, multimethod study on the use of StoryKit, a mobile storytelling application. Evaluating such tools authentically, as they are being used in-situ, can be even more challenging. However, designing authoring tools that effectively integrate the discrete media-capture components of mobile devices to enable rich expression-especially by children-remains a challenge. Today’s mobile devices are equipped with a variety of tools that enable users to capture and share their daily experiences.
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The airfield had a maximum landing run of between 2,400 and 3,000 feet but a railway line running alongside the site and its proximity to Stapleford Tawney meant that this was never an ideal location for an airfield.Ībridge was left vacant by 1 April 1936 and declared unfit for use on 17 June. Buildings at the site consisted of just one main hangar and three smaller lock-ups with a clubhouse on the south side. The airfield’s landing area was extended but a poor quality grass surface led to Lewington lacking the official acknowledgement for ‘all types’ aircraft use. The East Anglian Aero Club did operate for a time at Abridge. The flying school never came to fruition and the Bristol machine as well as two de Havilland Moths and another Bristol Fighter that was not certificated were all scrapped. However, the company could only operate one flyable aircraft, a First World War Bristol Fighter. The ambitious Lewington also intended Commercial Airways to provide regular services to many parts of Britain as well as air taxi and charter operations, joyriding, stunt exhibitions, parachuting and wing walking. Lewington, set up a company called Commercial Airways (Essex) Limited with the hope of starting a flying school. Sir Alan Cobham staged one of his flying displays here on 16 July 1932 but it was not until 29 November that the site was officially licensed as a private airfield.Ībridge officially opened as Essex Airport on 17 June 1933 although it became better known as Loughton or Loughton Air Park. However, the club had acquired another airstrip by March 1931 so it is unclear whether Abridge was ever used. There is mention of an airfield at Abridge in October 1930 when the South Essex Aero Club obtained land in the area. Internet Week: What’s it like running a business for kids, not being parents yourselves? Gover: Our perspective is that raising a child is an extraordinarily personal and highly-charged endeavor. Previously, I worked at an online marketing company and a family business in Texas. My background in psychology and I’m currently working on a Masters in Industrial Organizational Psychology NYU. I loved the business model and how a shared economy helps parents make their lives easier. Koors: Max posted an ad for help and I joined him at the beginning of the year to focus on the marketing efforts. Sparkbox takes me back to the education side and simultaneously lets me put into effect a lot of what I learned and practiced as an investment banker. Internet Week: Was that your background? Gover: I was a public high school math teacher in the Bronx and then went to business school and became an investment banker in corporate finance. After I looked into it a little more closely it really turned out there was something there and had good feedback from parents already using it, so I decided it was worth it to take the plunge. About a year ago they decided to step away for personal reasons and approached me about taking over the operations. Internet Week: How did Sparkbox begin? Gover: It was founded by two women friends of mine, who ran it as a side business. Yasmin Koors and Max Gover Photo courtesy of Sparkbox It's a variation on the old theme of a boy finding parallels between the characters populating his fantastic experiences and his humdrum life back home. Captain Morten is less a coming-of-age tale than a lesson in confidence and compassion, with echoes of Pinocchio and Alice in Wonderland thrown into the mix. But the cast is all Irish, and the film was the first stop motion feature with animation produced in Ireland, by Galway-based studio, Telegael. Captain Morten and the Spider Queen was directed by Estonian filmmaker, Kaspar Jancis, with partners in Belgium and the UK. It’s not unusual for animated films made in Europe to become international co-productions. But it is a fascinating experiment in what animation can do. The subject matter is not for the faint of heart either. Jones says working with children was a “stylistic decision.” Being the work of child artists and a small indie crew, The Green Marker Scare isn’t the most polished animated film ever made, and it can sometimes be difficult to follow what’s going on. A disclaimer at the front of the film stresses that none of the children knew that they were working on a horror picture. Jones had the entire film done as green lines on white, and everything in it was drawn by children. It’s a grisly and rather pulpy story, but that’s not what’s remarkable about the film. In 2012, he wrote and directed The Green Marker Scare, a psychological horror film about a young woman who investigates her father’s murder and finds a diabolical cult at the center of it all. The independent director, Graham Jones, has made several films on contemporary subjects concerning Irish youth. There is more to Irish animation than Cartoon Saloon – more than the output of an organized studio. The Breadwinner isn’t the type of story usually told in animation, but Twomey’s careful pacing and a brilliant voice cast helps it deliver a powerful experience through the form. But fantasy can’t bleed into reality here to survive, Parvana must rely on her wits, her talents, and a few very good friends. The look of the characters is in the same general design family as the studio’s Irish tales, and a story-within-the-story done in a cut-out style offers the heroine, Parvana, some relief from the harsh world around her. It’s a sobering look at the plight of one family under the Taliban’s Afghanistan before the outbreak of war in 2001. But Cartoon Saloon’s Nora Twomey served as director. Technically, the film was a co-production with Canada’s Aircraft Pictures and Luxembourg’s Melusine Productions, with Angelina Jolie as an executive producer. On the other end of the Cartoon Saloon spectrum lies The Breadwinner, based on a novel of the same name by Deborah Ellis. It’s Ben’s slow acceptance of his sister through their mystical adventure that opens the door to a healthy acceptance of that grief and provides the heart of an often melancholy but beautiful film. And there’s an initial bitterness to the story of Song of the Sea that isn’t in the other two Moore films the disappearance of the family matriarch, Bronagh, on the night of childbirth leaves her husband broken, and drives her oldest child Ben to take out his grief and rage on his little sister, Saoirse. Instead, there’s an emphasis on the qualities of watercolor, artfully manipulated with modern technology. It’s a different visual experience, not as intricate as Kells or as sketchy as Wolfwalkers. It’s the only one with a relatively contemporary setting (the 1980s). But Song of the Sea is in some ways the most unique of the three. Besides their shared cultural tradition, the three films feature young people with close bonds to supernatural beings, well-meaning but harmful father figures, and the music of Bruno Coulais and folk group, Kíla. The Secret of Kells and Wolfwalkers mark the beginning and end of a loose trilogy from writer/director, Tomm Moore, with each entry drawing on elements of Irish folklore. * Sony devices require the Device Administrator permission. Pass your ID on to your trusted technician, who is using the TeamViewer full version. the support technician), needs to install and start the TeamViewer full version on his/her computer (download at 3. 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The location of the sceptre, the artifacts and which castles the villains inhabit are all randomized each game, adding to its replayability.Īs the player explores, he encounters various types of creatures native to the different continents, some of which are able to be recruited. Some of these chests represent various events that increase the hero's inherent abilities, such as magical strength or weekly income others may contain one of eight artifacts, which themselves provide a piece of the map, in addition to conferring their own unique powers. Along the way, numerous treasure chests are encountered scattered across the map. With each defeat of the progressively stronger villain's army, the character claims (along with the reward money for the "King's Bounty" on that villain) another piece of the map revealing the sceptre's burial location. The hero is given a weekly commission from the king to track down 17 villains across the 4 continents. 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According to Art Clokey's son Joe, Art loved Murphy's sketches and even allowed him to redub some of the old Gumby shorts for another sketch. Gumby's 1980s resurgence in popularity was most likely attributable to a series of sketches on Saturday Night Live depicting Gumby (played by Eddie Murphy) and Pokey (played by Joe Piscopo) as actually being old-time Jewish vaudeville stars themselves playing parts. A Gumby direct-to-video movie was released circa 1995. After the series' network run ended, Clokey bought back the rights to his characters and produced new Gumby episodes for syndication in The '60s and The '80s. The original Gumby shorts aired on NBC in 1957. He was successful enough to receive his own spin-off show. The character debuted in 1956, as a segment of Howdy Doody. Gumby's foes, the Blockheads, never spoke. His friends included Pokey, a red horse Prickle, a "prickly" yellow dragon (except for the episodes where he self-identified as a dinosaur) and Goo, a blue female character who rather resembles a small sea lion with a blond wig ( Word of God said she's a " gooey blue mermaid"). He also could walk into books and participate in the stories therein. Gumby himself was portrayed as a young boy capable of changing his shape at will. Clokey also performed some of the character voices. (Enter Charlie Brown cry after getting the football pulled from him): “AGGGGGUUHHHHHH!!!!!!” Blue Collar Survival #345 - I'm Gumby, Dammit !!!!Īh yes, friends and neighbors, the Blue Collar Guide To Music Biz Survival – no mystics, no potions, no shaman, just straight talk with a side of bacon (fruit, in my case – it’s called ‘watching-out-for-the-rock-geezer-body’….)!Įvery get to a point in life where you wonder what the hell yer doin’ and why yer doin’ it? Well, of course not, good friends – who asks THOSE philosophical questions anyhoo, huh? What’s the point, right – we just need to keep on plowin’ right thru, eyes focused on the road, one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the coffee cup….Art Clokey (who would go on to create Davey and Goliath) produced this series of clay animated shorts for NBC in The '50s after screening his student film Gumbasia for Twentieth Century Fox. I know I’ve ruminated on this in previous columns, but this installment will focus on a current project – my new EP/CD! (a smattering of applause, followed by crickets chirping, then a door slamming shut, two drunks at the bar laughing uncontrollably, broken glass, then, one minute of silence……THEN… more crickets chirping) With luck and God’s good grace, I get to turn 50 years old in September of this year, 2008. So, to wit, my point is: what happens to me with my music gig at this point in life, Mr.Īnd I know I have no reason to bat an eye, because people like my mother-in-law and my Aunt Boots would roll their eyes, and just say,” Oh, honey, come on, kid….” (My favorite expression on age, next to the Satchel Paige quote, comes from my Aunt Adel, in her 90’s now: “Well, do you want the ALTERNATIVE?”).Īt one point, 50 was the ‘new 40 ‘, but know I think it could even be the ‘new 30’ given our proclivity for advanced aging. Well, a lot of good things are emerging – one, this column, which has been a lifeline for my secret journalistic fantasies, two, I still get to gig – church gigs, coffeehouse and the rare bar gig. I work on guitar and bass amps still, but after 28 years of doing contract work, I’m picking and choosing what I can work on successfully (as much for me as my customer base). |