http://www.davidroedl.com Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:01:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently returned home from the Imagine Cup World Finals in Paris. I'm proud to say that along with my teammate Will Odom, our team IU EcoVis won first place in the Interface Design category. It was an intense and rewarding experience on several levels: a challenging exercise in design ... http://www.davidroedl.com/2008/07/12/imagine-cup-finals-recap/ This is the first post in a series documenting my trip to Paris to compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup Interface Design Competition. Unfortunately, our journey got off to a slow start yesterday. Storms over the midwest kept our flight out of Indy delayed over 5 hours. When we finally ... http://www.davidroedl.com/2008/07/03/imagine-cup-day-1/ One of the biggest pleasures of working on the IU Energy Challenge has been getting tapped into the broader initiative to promote environmental sustainability on the IUB campus. This summer, I am honored to continue this effort by participating in the second summer internship program sponsored by the Sustainability Task ... http://www.davidroedl.com/2008/06/06/summer-of-sustainability/ On Friday, I presented my master's capstone project, which in a symbolic sense concluded and summed up my design school experience. Putting together the presentation gave me a chance to reflect on the type of work I did this year: my approach, my process and the tacit knowledge gained. ... http://www.davidroedl.com/2008/05/25/reflections-on-service-strategy-protoyping/ I just found out that I have advanced to the final round of the 2008 Microsoft Imagine Cup Interface Design competition. The theme of this year's competition is "Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment". My design (submitted along with teammate Will Odom) is part of my capstone ... http://www.davidroedl.com/2008/05/25/imagine-cup-finalist/ For the past two months, I've been working to overhaul the look and contents of this site. I was getting bored with the generic Wordpress theme, so I decided to create my own style from scratch. This turned out to be a lot more work than I expected, but ... http://www.davidroedl.com/2008/02/18/a-new-look/ This essay is about the challenge of making environmental sustainability a focus of HCI research and practice. While environmental concerns have been around for a long time and have been considered important in other design disciplines like architecture and product design, the topic has only recently been recognized in the ... http://www.davidroedl.com/2008/01/18/entropy-and-ensoulment-the-environmental-evil-and-slendor-of-hci-design/ This fun 20 minute video is one the coolest things I've seen in a while. Its written and narrated by Annie Leonard and designed by Free Range Studios, who previously produced the popular Meatrix videos. With a delightfully blunt and simple style, Leonard clearly breaks down the complexities of ... http://www.davidroedl.com/2007/12/24/the-story-of-stuff/ I am currently reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan's illuminating account of the industrial food system. The book provides an excellent explanation of where food comes from and the journey it travels before we eat it. What makes the book so powerful is that Pollan really connects all the dots; ... http://www.davidroedl.com/2007/11/11/food-and-the-design-of-an-industrial-system/ Yesterday a friend sent me an interesting link (thanks Drew), and today Erik Stolterman posted it to the HCI listserve as an example “worth reflection and critique”: http://www.infinityart.ro/ I think this site is a great artifact to apply the critical approaches I have been learning in class. Using a phenomenological lens, my ... http://www.davidroedl.com/2007/11/02/interaction-criticism-in-action/