Sinead O'Brien, eSTEAMed

Art Journal – What makes a house a home

What makes a house a home? Is it a nice set of curtains? Is it designer furniture? Is it having the biggest TV and hottest new technology? Having lived in 14 houses so far I know that none of the above are what make a house a home for me. As part of her PhD my colleague Caro Claisse designed a kit, including a blank build-it-yourself laser cut house, to act as a canvas for people to express what makes a house a home for them.

pictures of post visit postcard, how to use passcode on postcard on website, invitation to add your own memories

Atlantic Wall post-visit website

“The Hague and the Atlantic Wall: War in the City of Peace” was a museum exhibition which ran from April to October in 2015 at Museon in the city of The Hague, in The Netherlands. The Atlantic Wall was a set of the defensive lines and placements that were built by the German forces during WWII along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea, from Norway to the French/Spanish border. The wall consisted of a 5,000 km long chain of bunkers, anti-tank walls, cliffs and other barriers and was aimed at preventing an Allied attack on the Reich’s Western frontiers. This exhibition focused specifically on the Atlantic Wall in The Hague and the impact of its construction on the city and its inhabitants. Visitors were tracked as they interacted with the exhibition and once they had completed their visit they could visit a checkout point and print themselves a personalized visit souvenir postcard.

Making Sewing

DIY Cowl Top

The image below for this DIY Cowl Top kept appearing in my Pinterest feed and eventually prompted me to sew up my own jersey version. I don't know the original source of the inspiration image. A reverse Google image look-up suggests that may have come from this Serbian (according to Chrome) website here.

Data Visualizations Design Research

meSch Post Visit Website

Introduction

The idea of allowing users to extend their visit is very popular with Museum officials at present. The meSch post-visit visualization tool was designed to explore how elements from an exhibition could be combined with information from a users visit to provide a personalized hyper-visual interface. The hope being it would allow the visitor:

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From Instagram: Trying to find a way to put all this in words. #mesch #visualisation #postvisit

Post museum visit visualisations. This image has been automagically pulled from my Instagram feed here

Dolls

Blythe Button Eye chips

Yes. Just like Coraline

Making

Weave a scarf in a day

Last week I attend a day class to learn how to weave a scarf in a day with Jane Huws in Sheffield. During the class Jane taught a small group…

Making Sewing

Scottish Tweed Burda Jacket pattern mashup

The body of a jacket and the peplum of a similar but not quite the same jacket... Oh wait...

DIY Anthro Doll - Monster High Body and Littlest Pet Shop jumbo head

Dolls Making

DIY Anthro Dolls

I love my Blythe dolls, but variety is the spice of life. I looked into buying my ladies some animalistic friends but WOW those Wonderfrogs, Hujoo dolls and similar are difficult to find in the UK and pricey! Ouch!! I'd rather put that money and effort towards my next dolly purchase. The solution, as the title suggests, is DIY.

Knitting Making

Easy Lace Shrug #80064AD

Easy Lace Shrug #80064AD by Lion Brand Yarn knitted in hand spun autumnal lovelyness. Details on Ravelry here.

Knitting Making

Folded Knitting Pattern

This is my finished version of Folded by Veera Välimäki Details can be found here on Ravelry.

Code Data Visualizations Research

Create Kibana visualizations and dashboards dynamically

If you've used Kibana, then you probably know how easy it is to create a dashboard via the GUI. What you may not know is that it is also possible to dynamically create kibana dashboards and visualizations! It is as easy as making a curl request.

kibanagui - dynamically create kibana dashboards

Android Code

Atlantikwall Android App

The video below demonstrates an Android App built for evaluation of Atlantikwall exhibition at Museon in Den Haag. This application has been built on the Ionic Cordova stack. The user first chooses language(Dutch or English), then perspective(Soldier, Civilian or Civil Servant) and may then watch videos for the various points of interest.

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iStep in action

What is iStep

iStep is a web based intervention developed by Sheffield Hallam University as part of the EU funded project Innovage. Its aims were to both promote and enable healthy, active lifestyles towards a reduction in levels of problematic obesity in increasingly aging populations. iStep stands for 'Intergenerational Support To Encourage Physical Activity'. The iStep tool was designed to allow a younger and an older person to form a partnerships and track their physical activity. Two people would pair up to form a dyad. They could then compete against other pairs to complete a challenge. Users of the system could see how much activity they had done, compare their progress with other dyads teams, and work towards a series of collective goals, by logging onto the on-line iStep environment.

How does iStep work?

The videos below illustrate each stage of using the iStep platform.

Dolls Making Sewing

From Instagram: Blythe dinosaur dresses

Can't say no to dinosaurs with top hats and monocles. #stashbust #blythe #danbo #justsewing This image has been automagically pulled from my Instagram feed here