United Airlines announced earlier this year that they are offering a status match challenge to people signing up between January 1 and December 31, 2013. This offer seems to be targeted mainly at Delta elites, but according to different reports from FlyerTalk this offer is also valid for frequent fliers from other alliances such as oneworld. […]
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@ iConference 2013
Monday I arrived in Forth Worth, TX, USA, to attend iConference 2013 running February 12 – 15, 2013. I have now reached the second conference day and tomorrow I will be presenting the paper “TagPad: Supporting Field Interviews and Analysis” I wrote together with Louise Barkhuus. So I will be spending most of the today […]
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First Time Grading!
Last week, I spent some time grading parts of the final exam for an interaction design course at Aalborg University. This is my first time grading exams and the first time to use the red marker we all know too well. The first part was multiple-choice questions, so not much to do on my part. […]
Was flying CPH – AAL a few days ago and noticed that Norwegian is about to introduce a new in-flight entertainment system. This service was announced back in the fall of 2012 and is now being rolled out. The current system is only a preview and currently does not contain much content but provides a great […]
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Norwegian 2012 review
During the last six months I have been flying frequently with Norwegian (Norwegian Air Shuttle) (IATA: DY) between Copenhagen (CPH) and Aalborg (AAL), and also did a single London Gatwick (LGW) – Copenhagen (CPH) trip so decided it was time to post a review for my 2012 experiences. I have good experiences with both the […]
January 1st 2013 it was time for the final game of the 99th Rose Bowl game. This year the battle was between Wisconsin Badgers (8-5 before the final) and The Stanford Cardinal (11-2 before the final). The Badgers from Wisconsin haven’t had a great season so it was a happy surprise to find out that […]
UPDATE 2: This offer is no longer available. UPDATE: Between 1/1/2013 – 1/31/2013 this offer has been lowered to 600 miles. According to recent reports in this FlyerTalk thread some users have experienced delays in receiving the miles. BCKSTGR, a newly launched company branding clients through social media services, is offering up to 1000 United MileagePlus bonus […]
My co-author Louise Barkhuus and I got a paper accepted at iConference 2013. The conference will be held February 12 – 15, 2013 in Fort Worth, TX, USA. I will present the paper, something I’m looking very much forward too! In this paper, we report on experiences with the data collection tool TagPad. We presented […]
A study released earlier this month reveals that the number of articles retracted due to scientific misconduct has increased. The authors claim that because some retraction announcements published by journals etc. are “Incomplete, uninformative or misleading…”, earlier estimates of retractions due to misconduct have been too low. The authors examined 2.047 retracted articles in the […]
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Internet of Things Comic Book
Internet of Things, a term coined back in 1999, has no firm definition but deals with uniquely identifiable things or objects with virtual representations. Objects can be connected to the Internet or a local network and these objects will often have the option to interact and communicate with other nodes in the network. For example, […]