Essays

A notebook to demonstrate introspective schema derivation

We used datasets from two customer relation management systems to derive the respective schemas and determine how to propagate changes from one system to the other.

Cybernetic Watchface Process Model

designing closed loop systems.

here we present a small exposition of a process model to communicate an approach to designing learning systems with feedback loops using a watch face metaphore and the interplay between cognitive processes and digital artefacts.

smoke alarms for pathogens?

This was a short description of the artefact.

Is it possible to use DIY components and design patterns from pollen monitors to create an intelligent network of aerosol sensors that can help make spaces safer? Sensors continue to get cheaper, and assembling and programming them seems to get easier. But what is the logic behind what they sense? What blueprint can be identified for something akin to a "smoke alarm" for viruses and pathogens? WHat tools can we create fro public health, epigenetic study and observation, and microbiome management? Let's find out!

datagenous sensing

This was a short description of the artefact.

As a way to explore how to conceptualize an IoT architecture, we decided to make "connected kombucha". We also like kombucha, but not when it is too sour. Can we set up a sensor that talks semantics and helps guide our understanding of the fermentation process? Yes we can.