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Alan Walks Wales sensing the miles Alan Dix Talis and University of Birmingham http://alandix.com/ alanwalkswales/

Alan Walks Wales: Sensing the Miles - 1 - Introduction

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Introduction to presentation for 'Enhancing Self-Reflection with Wearable Sensors', workshop at mobileHCI 2014. This is about my 1000 mile walk in 2013 around the periphery of walls, some of the sensors I carried and data collected.

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Alan Walks Walessensing the miles

Alan Dix

Talis and University of Birmingham

http://alandix.com/alanwalkswales/

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University ofBirmingham

Tiree

about me

Tiree Tech Wave23-27 Oct 2014

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Alan Walks Wales

1058 miles (1700km)3 million footfalls3 ½ monthsApril-July 2013

focus on IT at the margins

one thousand miles of poetry, technology and community

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vision

personalencircling, encompassing, pilgrimage, homecoming,

practicalIT for the walker & IT for local communities

philosophicalreflections on walking and space, locality and identity

researchpersonal agenda and living lab lots of

data

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