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Submitted review to SIDeR 2016

Just submitted a review to the 12th Student Interaction Design Research conference (SIDeR 2016). This is the second time I’m reviewing for this conference. This idea behind the conference is to provide a venue for students to publish short papers reporting research conducted and reflections made during their ongoing studies such as outcomes of project […]

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Happy new year 2016!

A few highlights from my year:

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Libratone Lounge in the mail

After being on the look out for a relative small, non-expensive, and of cause high quality wireless speaker for about three years I finally made my order this Black Friday. I’m not really a Black Friday guy since most of the good offers require one to get up very early and navigate in a chaotic […]

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Free secondary (slave) DNS

Need free secondary (slave) domain name servers (DNS)? Luckily there are several stable providers offering this. The following list contains only providers that have proven stability and commitment. The list is based on my own experiences and by going through reviews of the services. Information about the performance of most of the listed providers can […]

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Papers PhD Fellow Life

Teaching Software Developers to Perform UX Tasks

Together with my co-authors, Tina Øvad, Lars Bo Larsen, and Jan Stage, we got the paper “Teaching Software Developers to Perform UX Tasks” accepted at OzCHI 2015 taking place in Melbourne, Australia, December 7-10, 2015. This paper has been in the works for quite some time so I’m very happy that it finally found a […]

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Using design cards to facilitate redesign: initial findings

When developing new design concepts and redesigning existing ones the idea of using design cards to facilitate the process and creativity has been explored in several different fields. The idea of using design cards as part of design workshops has been explored when developing new design concepts such as game designs [7], “playful experiences” [6], […]

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DNS Linux

Installing MaraDNS on CentOS

MaraDNS is a simple lightweight domain name service (DNS) including both an authority and a recursive DNS. In a few words DNS is used to translate domain names (for example, bornoe.org) into an IP address (for example, 127.0.0.1) bound to a specific server on the Internet. An authority DNS contains information about specific domains and which […]

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Thank You Knud Højgaard’s Foundation

I was delighted to receive a travel grant from Knud Højgaard’s Foundation. I attended the CHI 2015 conference last month. Along with the free registration I received as a student volunteer this grant will partially cover my travel and participation expenses. As always, CHI was a great experience.

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@ CHI 2015

Spending this week at CHI 2015. The theme of the conference is “Crossings”, which aim to explore the intersections and collaborations between different fields, perspectives, and cultures in the design and use of interactive technologies. As always, it’s a pleasure to meet the HCI community, share ideas, random thoughts, and learning from the hundreds of […]

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Attending CHI 2015

I’ll be attending the CHI 2015 conference, the ACM’s HCI flagship conference. This year the conference is held in Seoul, South Korea, April 18 – 23, 2015, at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center. This will be my third attendance CHI, I also attended in 2010 and 2011, and it will be my third time […]