Monday, April 26, 2004
CHI costs
The workshop was useful - a variety of issues realting to time presented; Mark´s video and media work was good, Andrew´s use of GOMs was good, and there may be hints towards a formalism I can use for my trigger work. An interesting observation from a review of SMS usage - all messages were to known people, almost all of those who were very close aquaintences; implication, SMS is a very personal, intimate medium - and therefore adverts from unknown sources on it are likely to be very annoying and poorly regarded by users. We knew this, but it's nice to see it confirmed by preliminary research. But the venue organisation was dire.
$150 to go to the workshop, and CHI didn't even provide a projector. There were 25 of us: you could buy one for that money! They ran out of coffee: they knew how many people were coming to the workshops, and yet couldn't provide even 1/3 of the cups of coffee needed, and that was for only one each. No lunch, no resturant in the venue open, and on the list of resturants we got from them, all were closed. And without an Austrian phone number, we even had trouble ordering pizza until a woman in a tabac took pity on us and rang her local delivery service and asked them to help us. Disgraceful: where does all that money go?
Grumble grumble :-) However, Vienna is pretty - sunny today so need to have a look around.
The workshop was useful - a variety of issues realting to time presented; Mark´s video and media work was good, Andrew´s use of GOMs was good, and there may be hints towards a formalism I can use for my trigger work. An interesting observation from a review of SMS usage - all messages were to known people, almost all of those who were very close aquaintences; implication, SMS is a very personal, intimate medium - and therefore adverts from unknown sources on it are likely to be very annoying and poorly regarded by users. We knew this, but it's nice to see it confirmed by preliminary research. But the venue organisation was dire.
$150 to go to the workshop, and CHI didn't even provide a projector. There were 25 of us: you could buy one for that money! They ran out of coffee: they knew how many people were coming to the workshops, and yet couldn't provide even 1/3 of the cups of coffee needed, and that was for only one each. No lunch, no resturant in the venue open, and on the list of resturants we got from them, all were closed. And without an Austrian phone number, we even had trouble ordering pizza until a woman in a tabac took pity on us and rang her local delivery service and asked them to help us. Disgraceful: where does all that money go?
Grumble grumble :-) However, Vienna is pretty - sunny today so need to have a look around.
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