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awesome real time infoviz
By: Noor on: Dec 24,2007 In: daily rambles, hci, infoviz, travel, user experience, user interfacesI’m not sure if the other airlines do this but I thought this was awesome! I was checking on Nabeela’s flight to see if it was delayed. Not only does JetBlue tell you its estimated arrival time, you can also look at a map that shows you the current location of the flight. That’s taking […]
Thesis Results Posted
By: Noor on: Jun 1,2006 In: SI, blogs, grad school, infoviz, master's thesis, research, social networks, university of michiganFor anyone who might be interested, I have posted a condensed online version of my master’s thesis, which was a study of relationship formation in three blog communities (Kuwait Blogs, UAE Blogs, and DFW Blogs).
Comments and questions (whether about the results, the experience of doing a master’s thesis at SI, or the online presentation) are […]
CHI 2006 Photos
By: Noor on: May 1,2006 In: CHI 2006, SI, conferences, grad school, hci, infoviz, photos, research, steps, technology, travel, university of michiganapete, mattbot, d*, and I went to the CHI conference last week to present Fitster at the Student Design Competition. Out of 48 entries, we placed third! Fitster was by far the best group project I’ve ever worked on (with all due respect to all of my former teammates from other projects) and […]
Woohoo!! Fitster is going to Montreal!
By: Noor on: Feb 13,2006 In: CHI 2006, SI, conferences, grad school, hci, infoviz, research, university of michiganFitster, the conceptual prototype that Andy, Matt, Diana, and I developed last semester for our infoviz project, has been accepted into the first round of the CHI Student Design Competition. Diana and I were both working on schoolwork in the DIAD this afternoon when we found out. I had just logged off and […]
packing and how not to get to the post office without a car
By: Noor on: Dec 15,2005 In: SI, ann arbor, daily rambles, dubai, family, friends, grad school, infoviz, middle east, teaching, travel, university of michigan, weatherpacking sucks . . . I hate packing . . . I hate unpacking even more, though . . .
I’ve just thrown a whole bunch of stuff into my bag. I really don’t know how many outfits I’ve thrown in or what it is that I’m actually taking. I just know I’m […]
Maybe I should be taking more notes, too?
By: Noor on: Oct 31,2005 In: SI, grad school, infoviz, university of michiganI’m sitting next to Erika in infoviz right now and she’s got paragraphs of notes. I’ve only managed to take a few sentences of notes.
Hmmm.
I really hope that by the end of this semester I will learn how to spell visualization*.
*For the record, I copied and pasted these instances of visualization from the instance that Word spell-checked and corrected for me.
For my infoviz class, my group is working on a fitness application that uses pedometers to track the number of steps a person takes in a day. The average American walks about 5,000 steps a day and most walking programs recommend walking 10,000 steps a day. My group and I have had our […]
About this blog
My name is Noor and this is my blog where I write about the mundane details of my life. I’m 30 and live in Northern California with my cats Mulder & Scully.
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