Fangled wirelessness and some

--@some stupid time andstill working

Been so incredibly busy with dissertation/report writing that I've managed to be more unexciting than usual. Have been home since Friday morning and not planning on heading back to Brunel until I get a draft done for my supervisor - it's coming along nicely but there is still so much to do, and I don't know how much of it will seem new to the markers - here's hoping they have forgotten all the old stuff I wrote.

I've got crap wireless access here - the router is on the other side of the house on the ground floor - that's about three walls and a ceiling the transmission has to go through, and it's not doing it well (enough for my liking). Messenger goes nuts too... oh well, I suppose it stops me from getting distracted by the internet as it's doing now.

Turns out that there wasn't a perfect order for the links between Usability-Ergonomics, Usefulness-Technology, and Desirability-Aesthetics - i.e. they didn't appear consecutively. I managed to cock up part of my UUD-ETA construct classification business and calculated it wrong, resulting in... hold on, just closing down messenger - pain in the arse program...

...resulting in Usability-Ergonomics appearing further down the list. The top three are: oh hold on, shit, just spotted something...

...sorted... are: Usa-Aes 59.4%; Des-Aes 58.7%; Use-Tec 57.3%.

Usa-Erg scores at 48.5% which is quite low in relation to the rest of the other (inc. UUD-UUD and ETA-ETA relationships).
Mind, I'm still pretty happy with the top three relationships even though the first isn't what I wanted. Major publications and many journals and papers state that there is some connection between an aesthetically pleasing object and its rated usability - some stuff to do with pyschology and how you find a beautiful product easy to use - i.e. you essentially look past its shortfall because it's so good in some other area.

It's actually quite interesting, even to me who has been reading up on all this for the past 9 months or so. Exciting stuff.

Oh also, today, I got an email from our Masters course director about an available position at IDEO, London branch. Interestingly, he specifically put my email address down along with my supervisor's and then CC'ed it to the rest of the group. Fair enough, I thought, seeing as I think I'm the only one really involved with Human Factors and emotions and such like. Deadline for the application is 17th August, so not long. Want to hand in a summary of this Tangible Emotions report as part of the application (they ask for it).

Nearly finished that Jason Bourne book - only another 100 pages or so... hey, it's a big book, plus I only read it when I go to sleep.

And finally, because I really should be getting on with work and the fact that I said I would treat myself to a break after I got the Results chapter finished (which is nearly, nearly done, honest), is that I read somewhere in blogger.com that to increase my own blog traffic I should read other people's blogs and comment regularly, who then may return the favour. So I'll start doing that soon, once I get this draft out the way.
Also, they said to turn on certain settings to increase the awareness of my blog, which I have done.

Right, laters - and don't go stealing my results. You won't have the proof to back it up anyway... ha de ha ha...

god, I'm knackered.

--steven