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		<title>HCI, Or Look At My New Toy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This is very US-centric. I get the impression that a lot of HCI professionals never matured past the &#8220;picture on the fridge&#8221; stage. If you read enough SIGCHI papers, it becomes that the &#8220;human&#8221; part is for NSF-funding rather than actually caring about people. And its understandable: we are very self rather than communally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EEG &amp; Disability: TED Talk Reaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, for those that don&#8217;t know, the TED conference that focuses on &#8220;ideas worth spreading.&#8221; Top specialists in various fields are invited to talk on their area of expertise and how they would like to change the world. EEG collects electrical signals from the brain noninvasively (usually with a cap and a scalp  covered in goop). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dabbling with Video Game Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 03:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I am on this little tangent after watching Danial Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Video Games and the Female Audience,&#8221; which I followed from &#8220;Considerations on Females as Game Consumers&#8221; at Border House (a feminist video gaming blog). One of the sticking ideas was that the marketing and design of female video game characters are exclusive towards women. Why are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prove you&#8217;re a programmer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was the major question for an interview I had yesterday. An interview where the only clear direction I had was that I would be doing a 15 minute presentation for. So, I, was expecting an interview focused on my communication skills. And a lot of it was. And then there was the &#8220;prove you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Dr. Duck &amp; More Ableism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Duck has done wonderful work towards outreach and encouraging children to pursue science and math. His name is on several papers that I have come to love, rereading as if they were a beloved novel. I wanted to work with him. Up until I met him. Oh, and did meeting him hurt. My chest, [...]]]></description>
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