Matt Radbourne
UX Consultant

Challenging the relationship between the human user and the digital image

This article investigates ways in which ‘embodiment’ challenges our understanding of the relationship between digital images and ‘real’ human users.

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Posted by Matt Radbourne on Tue, 27 Dec 2011

How affect influences geolocation design

In the design of an interactive University tour using GPS on a mobile device, the direction of the tour depends entirely on the outcome of the decisions made by the user. The proposal is to produce an application for a mobile device that allows the user to walk around a specific University campus and monitors the user’s GPS position in order to locate points of interest in close proximity and push relevant information to the GUI and audio outputs of the device, be these headphones or an internal speaker.

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Posted by Matt Radbourne on Sun, 4 Dec 2011

Community experience: Real vs virtual

This short essay focusses the potential risks of particular types of community that exist only online. I will use concepts defined by Marshall McLuhan and other theorists to highlight and analyse the differences between online- and offline-specific examples and identify rationale for these risks.

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Posted by Matt Radbourne on Sun, 4 Dec 2011