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Publications November 5, 2006
I love LaTeX November 14, 2006
Humax PVR-9200T Freeview recorder November 21, 2006
Apple TV December 3, 2006
My Sony NW-E002 MP3 Player December 11, 2006
Card sort analysis using a spreadsheet December 23, 2006
WordPress January 14, 2007
Favicon creators January 16, 2007
In control of self-assessment January 23, 2007
Augmenting referees – why didn’t Piero help Uriah? January 28, 2007
Why my coffee machine is so sexy February 6, 2007
Designing with the future in mind: The Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough February 15, 2007
Stalkers in space and Facebook in your face February 20, 2007
Are computers making us stupid? March 1, 2007
Using patterns to shape our world March 9, 2007
WordPress groupie: blogging, fiddling, loving it March 18, 2007
Design using function, behaviour, structure March 27, 2007
Inside Your Users’ Mind: The Cultural Probe April 3, 2007
The eight tasks in an artefact lifecycle April 5, 2007
Design creativity: harnessing your inner genius April 18, 2007
Is the future of techology to be found in fiction? May 5, 2007
Digital Web: Anyone for a game of cards? May 15, 2007
Function-behaviour-structure for website design May 15, 2007
Semiotics: It’s a sign! May 24, 2007
Interaction ingénieur-machine pour les auscultations des ouvrages May 27, 2007
Engineer-Computer Interaction for Structural Monitoring May 27, 2007
Inside Your Users’ Mind: The Cultural Probe June 10, 2007
Visualisation: Information is power – just avoid drowning in data June 10, 2007
Human-computer interaction: Can you see what it is yet? June 21, 2007
Who ordered pizza? July 27, 2007
Cognitive Science for IT Security August 29, 2007
Codebreaking: Humans are the weakest link October 21, 2007
Why task analysis doesn’t do it for me October 26, 2007
Checklists November 6, 2007
Getting your hands on Apple’s iPhone November 8, 2007
Security and usability: Don’t let your users get you down November 15, 2007
Cognitive Science: What makes your users tick November 28, 2007
User motivation: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs December 5, 2007
Newspaper Cuttings: Representing Switzerland December 14, 2007
Jasmine February 17, 2008
Running two versions of wordpress March 17, 2008
An error occurred while processing this directive October 11, 2008
Augmented or virtual: Is your reality working or wearing? December 30, 2008
Goodbye Kubrick, hello twenty ten July 14, 2011
Get stuffed Stuff Magazine July 15, 2011
The power of the written word July 23, 2011
Upgrading your embodiment August 6, 2011
Experiencing embodiment February 24, 2012
Chemotherapy: The year of my hair October 3, 2012
Experience: Where am I? Where have I been? Where am I going? October 18, 2012
Storytelling: The power of fiction December 12, 2012
Storytelling and embodiment: The stories we tell ourselves December 18, 2012
Storytelling: The hero’s quest May 17, 2013
The view from my yoga mat July 13, 2013
Emerging Technologies: OWN the technology July 13, 2013
Mindfulness: The love within your love July 21, 2013
Emerging technologies: New ways for shared experiences July 28, 2013
Emerging Technologies: What’s the story? August 6, 2013
Beautiful content by Bitstrips October 27, 2013
Women Centre Stage October 29, 2013
Web design (0): The science of communication December 12, 2013
Is there anybody out there? (Or why do I blog?) December 29, 2013
Yoga Lessons: Life on the edge January 23, 2014
Social media security: Sharing is caring? June 3, 2014
Ambivalent web design October 23, 2014
Katie Hopkins’s #myfatstory is a story of vulnerability January 5, 2015
Bikram: Heat is the way to inner peace March 5, 2015
Maslow’s hierarchy of social media April 14, 2015
Alone together: Is social media changing us? April 22, 2015
Travels with my phone May 1, 2015
Social media explained May 10, 2015
Augmenting humans with social media May 27, 2015
Mind the gap! Or, is it watch this space? July 7, 2015
Ritual: Feast on your life July 9, 2015
Card Sorting: Anyone for a game of cards July 27, 2015
Writing fast and slow August 4, 2015
Feeding the machine: The embodied human in a social media world August 23, 2015
Love the machine, don’t rage against it August 27, 2015
Simplexity and the Internet of Things September 5, 2015
Digital Culture September 12, 2015
Web design (1): What’s the story? September 16, 2015
Web design (3): Getting to grips with your user’s experience September 29, 2015
Web design (4): Being content with your content October 3, 2015
Web design (6): Sharing and caring on social media October 9, 2015
Web design (7): Evaluation October 16, 2015
Writing a blog series October 22, 2015
How stories matter November 14, 2015
Women and Storytelling: Saint, Spy, Suffragette December 3, 2015
Storyboarding tales, technology and my CV December 9, 2015
2015: Top 10 blogs January 2, 2016
Storytelling in technology: The myth of progress January 8, 2016
Katie Hopkins’s #fatstory one year on January 18, 2016
Social Psychology: The Social Animal on Social Media (1) January 20, 2016
Yoga Lessons: Bikram one year on January 30, 2016
Women in Storytelling – Star Wars: The Force Awakens January 31, 2016
Conformity: The Social Animal on Social Media (2) February 7, 2016
Propaganda and Persuasion: The Social Animal on Social Media (3) February 11, 2016
Social Cognition: The Social Animal on Social Media (4) March 14, 2016
Yoga Lessons: Bikram wisdom March 19, 2016
Self-justification: The Social Animal on Social Media (5) April 1, 2016
Storytelling: Narrative, Databases, and Big Data April 14, 2016
Aggression: The social animal on social media (6) April 20, 2016
Yoga lessons: More Bikram wisdom April 23, 2016
Prejudice: The social animal on social media (7) April 29, 2016
Liking, loving and interpersonal sensitivity: The social animal on social media (8) June 10, 2016
Conclusions: The limits of the social animal on social media (9) July 19, 2016
Web design (2): Get the picture July 29, 2016
Designing design: The science of the artificial September 21, 2016
Designing design: Function, behaviour, structure September 22, 2016
Designing design: Form follows function September 23, 2016
Designing design: No function in structure September 26, 2016
Designing design: The medium is the message September 29, 2016
Designing design: Types and schemas October 3, 2016
Designing design: Attractive things work better October 5, 2016
Designing design: Great expectations October 8, 2016
Designing design: Colour October 12, 2016
Designing design: Style and standards October 13, 2016
Designing design: Solution spaces October 14, 2016
Designing design: Conclusions October 14, 2016
Gaming: Storytelling and ludology October 17, 2016
Storytelling: Intimacy, privacy and social media October 24, 2016
Moments in modern technology November 11, 2016
Semiotics: Finding meaning in storytelling November 14, 2016
Carpe diem: Travels without my phone December 1, 2016
Stories, Semantics and the Web of Data December 11, 2016
The Connection Economy: Memail, mixtapes and fortune cookies December 13, 2016
Fifty shades of my grey hair December 19, 2016
My top 10 blogs 2016 December 23, 2016
Yoga Lessons: A year in front of Bikram’s mirrors December 24, 2016
Game theory in social media (1): Fate and power December 27, 2016
Game theory in social media marketing (2): Customers and competitors January 7, 2017
Game theory & social media (3): What are you playing at? January 10, 2017
Game theory & social media marketing (4): Conclusions January 14, 2017
Web design (5): Structure January 19, 2017
Designing story (1): The intimacy of the written word January 29, 2017
Maslow’s hierarchy of chakras February 19, 2017
Designing story (2) : Structure March 1, 2017
Designing story (3): Archetypes and aesthetics March 5, 2017
Designing story (4): Women March 19, 2017
Designing story (5): Possession, the relations between minds March 23, 2017
Is this progress? Humans, computers and stories March 29, 2017
Trusting technology, ourselves, and others May 9, 2017
When the Internet becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it May 29, 2017
Creating space June 20, 2017
Creating space (2): In daily life June 21, 2017
Creating space (3): Authenticity July 3, 2017
Creating space (4): Invasion, expansion and girls July 9, 2017
Creating space (5): When people can’t stand you July 19, 2017
Women: Society, Storytelling, Technology (1) August 16, 2017
Women’s bodies: Society, Storytelling, Technology (2) September 9, 2017
Women’s health: Society, Storytelling, Technology (3) October 12, 2017
Women’s work: Society, Storytelling, Technology (4) October 14, 2017
Women as superheroes: Society, Storytelling, Technology (5) October 18, 2017
Women and religion: Society, Storytelling, Technology (6) November 13, 2017
Women in Tech: Society, Storytelling, Technology (7) November 29, 2017
Women and girls on social media: Society, Storytelling, Technology (8) December 7, 2017
Women (Conclusions): Society, Storytelling, Technology (9) December 9, 2017
My top blogs 2017: Stories, statistics, and social media December 11, 2017
The Connection Economy: Memail, dodgy movies, and me December 18, 2017
Connection: Lighting the fire January 15, 2018
My name is Ruth January 20, 2018
Sit. Feast on your blogs January 27, 2018
Society of the mind: A Rhumba of Ruths January 31, 2018
Human-computer interaction, cyberpsychology and core disciplines February 12, 2018
The ghosts of AI February 21, 2018
Connection online: Tracing the space between us April 28, 2018
Thou shalt not: The Ten Commandments of Social Media May 3, 2018
Virtual Presence: Where do we go when we go online? May 8, 2018
Thou shalt not: The Ten Commandments of Social Media (2) May 9, 2018
Human-Computer Interaction : Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (1) May 13, 2018
Let’s Talk! Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (2) May 20, 2018
My grey hair two years on May 28, 2018
User or Used? Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (3) June 4, 2018
Codependency or Collaboration? Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (4) June 14, 2018
Productive or Experiential? Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (5) June 30, 2018
Human-Computer Interaction Conclusions: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (6) July 8, 2018
Social computing: Tribes and tribulations July 19, 2018
Sociability amongst strangers September 14, 2018
Privacy October 14, 2018
Let’s talk! #broadcastsfrommybooth November 20, 2018
Talking heads November 28, 2018
Alone Together three years on: Is social media changing us? December 5, 2018
My top blogs of 2018 December 23, 2018
Social anxiety on social media February 18, 2019
Westworld and the ghosts of AI March 6, 2019
Three years of Bikram yoga March 20, 2019
The inner life: Tarot and technology April 18, 2019
The accidental techie June 18, 2019
The accidental techie (2) : The not invited June 24, 2019
The accidental techie (3): Transference California June 25, 2019
The accidental techie (4): Flow June 29, 2019
The accidental techie (5): Shadowing July 5, 2019
Our love affair with big data August 22, 2019
Comfort September 13, 2019
The accidental techie (6): Going inside October 5, 2019
Social anxiety and emotional resonance on social media October 11, 2019
The accidental techie (7): Lost and found October 13, 2019
The accidental techie (8): 20/20 October 14, 2019
The accidental techie (9): Creating October 17, 2019
The accidental techie (10): Finished October 24, 2019
2019: Top 10 blogs or the story in the stats October 25, 2019
2019: Top 10 blogs October 26, 2019
30 Days Hath November October 31, 2019
A Third of Thirty Days November 8, 2019
Lost the plot: Thirty Days hath November November 18, 2019
Pooh: Thirty Days Hath November November 25, 2019
38.5 hours and 51,426 words hath November November 30, 2019
Resonance December 3, 2019
Just like me December 9, 2019
Myth making in machine learning December 26, 2019
Tutorial: A quick guide to data mining on Twitter January 13, 2020
Storytelling with AI and machine learning January 17, 2020
Westworld: Robots and 10,247 lines of code January 22, 2020
BikBot: Designing a bikram robot February 2, 2020
Giving your python a bob martin’s February 9, 2020
The heart of computer programming February 17, 2020
Teaching my girls how to code in python February 26, 2020
Stardust and supermoons March 9, 2020
Difficult March 29, 2020
Maslow’s hierarchy for women? March 30, 2020
My Blogpost Series April 5, 2020
My year in blogposts April 11, 2020
Maslow April 12, 2020
Genre tripping in Westworld April 14, 2020
Feeling in glorious technicolor April 18, 2020
Blogs On Yoga May 16, 2020
Artificial Intelligence: Ghosts, Robots, Data May 16, 2020
A Gacha guide to social anxiety on social media May 28, 2020
Four years of Bikram yoga #lockdown June 18, 2020
When UML gets hairy June 26, 2020
Blue sky thinking July 15, 2020
20 dreams July 29, 2020
Creating an online course as an eternal student August 12, 2020
101 ways to think about HCI August 13, 2020
My udemy course on Human-computer interaction August 15, 2020
WordPress Multisites August 25, 2020
Ways to look at social media September 11, 2020
A one minute guide to creating a user persona September 17, 2020
Social media as theatre September 30, 2020
How I created an online course October 7, 2020
Gaming October 10, 2020
Call me Rurg October 15, 2020
The heart of human-computer interaction October 16, 2020
The cave of my heart October 22, 2020
Data transformation November 3, 2020
Fairytale medicine November 5, 2020
Blogs about my Human-computer interaction course on Udemy November 12, 2020
5 minute Tarot: Stories, archetypes and energy November 18, 2020
Anyone can do human-computer interaction November 24, 2020
Heather James: artist November 30, 2020
Felt along the heart: My top blogs of 2020 December 22, 2020
Bluebeard, Bridgerton and Brontes’s romantic heroes January 15, 2021
Five years of Bikram yoga #lockdown January 24, 2021
Counting the days February 16, 2021
Greeting myself March 13, 2021
Written on my body, steeped in my heart April 28, 2021
Alternatives to creating safe spaces online May 30, 2021
‘I will not cry’ by Sandra Richardson June 17, 2021
Udemy 101 July 3, 2021
Painting from the soul bones July 21, 2021
Designing dialogue August 3, 2021
Social media: The persuasion and pervasion of branding September 17, 2021
Invested in your life October 5, 2021
Escape: TV, online gaming, and me November 5, 2021
Free Guy: Our favourite AI December 15, 2021
Top blogs of 2021 December 17, 2021
Coding in Minecraft (0): Tenacity January 9, 2022
Coding in Minecraft (1): Chicken rain and sky writing January 10, 2022
Coding in Minecraft (2): Creating classrooms January 17, 2022
What’s my why? January 29, 2022
Coding in Minecraft (3): Coordinates, confusion and collaboration January 30, 2022
Coding in Minecraft (4): Variables February 8, 2022
Sign me up! I want to be a ballerina February 12, 2022
A revelation of Ruths February 18, 2022
La Belle Époque March 24, 2022
The uncanny valley May 15, 2022
A birthday gift May 20, 2022
Learning to plaster June 26, 2022
The Nonconformist July 8, 2022
Mutherhood, menopause and mysticism October 16, 2022
Homesick and restless October 28, 2022
Knowing your story December 5, 2022
Dazzling yourself December 14, 2022
A Christmas Gift December 19, 2022
2022: My year in blogposts December 23, 2022
A place of OKness December 28, 2022
Written on the body January 2, 2023
Nepo baby: The Rise and Fall of Skywalker January 25, 2023
One baby-lecture at a time March 31, 2023
Chit Chat, Chitty Chitty Chit Chat, ChatGPT April 15, 2023
Panel participant: Engendering Love Summit May 8, 2023
Spiderman’s eight golden rules of interface design May 23, 2023
Wrestling with Spiderman July 3, 2023
Human-computer 1.5: Upgrading the upgrade July 4, 2023
Backing up gmail without Takeout or Thunderbird July 10, 2023
Patriarchy in women’s circles July 14, 2023
Feeling normal at the Transplant Games September 19, 2023
So long Instagram, and thanks for all the pix November 17, 2023
ChatGPT, Macbeth, and me November 24, 2023
2023: Top 10 blogs December 6, 2023
The complete works January 30, 2024
Designing for transparency: The Futon Company March 20, 2024
AI for the WI May 9, 2024
Yoga at the still point of the turning world June 27, 2024
Xed by X August 10, 2024