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Thoughts on research, software development, and academic life
2026
January
- Welcome to Bugs Become Features 1 min read
- About 4 min read
- Accessibility Publications 14 min read
- Behaviour and Physiology Publications 4 min read
- Blog Archives 1 min read
- Climate Action: Personal Carbon Accounting 3 min read
- COMP20312: Fundamentals of Databases 6 min read
- COMP20341: Software Engineering I 4 min read
- COMP33511: User Experience 10 min read
- Example: How to Add Projects 1 min read
- Friday Night Experiments 7 min read
- Parkinson's Disease Publications 2 min read
- Publications 21 min read
- Research 3 min read
- The Battle for Attention 5 min read
- Type 1 Diabetes Publications 3 min read
2025
January
- More About Me 4 min read
- CO2 Audit 2024: Five Years of Progress 2 min read
2024
January
- CO2 Audit 2023: Heat Pump Benefits Realised 1 min read
- Pivoting to Type 1 Diabetes Research 3 min read
2023
January
- CO2 Audit 2022: Maintaining Discipline 1 min read
2022
December
- Building a Site in Sphinx & reStructuredText 3 min read
- Climate Change 1 min read
- The Bedtime Ramblings 1 min read
- The Friday Night Experiments 2 min read
January
- CO2 Audit 2021: Finding the New Normal 2 min read
2021
August
- Unsocial Sundays: A Weekly Digital Detox 8 min read
January
- CO2 Audit 2020: The Lockdown Year 3 min read
2020
June
- CO2 Currency: Treating Carbon as a Budget 4 min read
April
February
- Why I Support the UCU Strike 2 min read
January
- CO2 Audit 2019: Establishing a Baseline 3 min read
2019
November
- Transportation and its Carbon Footprint 4 min read
June
- How Honeybees Can Help Us Monitor Pollution 9 min read
March
- I Love Facebook 6 min read
2018
September
- Return of the Podcast 7 min read
- BeeLife: Adventures in Urban Beekeeping 8 min read
2015
January
2014
November
- Information Sediment and Data Particles 2 min read
October
- ACM ASSETS 2014 Doctoral Consortium 2 min read
- Research Software NOW! 2 min read
September
- Neurodiversity HCI 1 min read
- No Brain Left Behind 2 min read
- Search Gear 20 Cleaning Up 1 min read
- Search Gear 19 Regular Expressions 2 min read
- Hypertext Notes - http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/ 3 min read
- PayPal it seems Do Have Your Back! 1 min read
- Search Gear 17 - TEST the TWITTER COLLECTOR 1 min read
- ACM SIGWeb Report 1 min read
August
- Search Gear 16 - json Decoder Encoder 3 min read
- Search Gear 15 - Half Way - Interfaces 2 min read
- Search Gear 14 - Pseudo Constructors! 1 min read
- Search Gear 13 - Variable Scoping! 2 min read
- Search Gear 11- Testing and Coverage! 1 min read
- Search Gear 9 - Drone.io and More Testing! 2 min read
- PayPal Don't 'got your back'! 2 min read
- Search Gear 6 - Spew, Hopwatch, toml-go! 1 min read
- Search Gear 5 - A Week of Go! 2 min read
- Quite Down Twitter! 2 min read
- Search Gear 1 - Go, IDE, VCS, TDD, Doc, CI 3 min read
- Why 'Go'? 2 min read
- Summer in the City 2 min read
July
- Man Computer Symbiosis 3 min read
June
- ASSETS 2014 Reviewing DONE! 4 min read
May
- The Extensible Web 3 min read
- PaperPile - maybe Good for you? 1 min read
- Making and Citizen Scientists 2 min read
April
- CHI 2014 - Here we GO! 2 min read
- The Common Crawl 2 min read
- W4A 2014 Trip Update 2 min read
March
- Tiree Tech Wave 1 min read
February
- UX Open Courseware 1 min read
- W4A 2014 - Get to Korea! 1 min read
- Patronage in Research 2 min read
January
- Academic Markdown Pre-Processor (AMPP) 2 min read
- Old Research Becomes New Utility! 1 min read
- Markdown for Academics 2 min read
- Search and Serendipity 2 min read
- New Year, New Look 1 min read
2013
December
- Mono-Tasking in Research 2 min read
- Chocolate C 2 min read
September
- Note to Self 3 min read
August
July
- Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research 2 min read
June
- eAccessibility Research Agenda Roadmap 2 min read
- Industrial Ties NOT Industrial Development 2 min read
May
- Users at WWW2013 2 min read
- W4A and W4A Camp Trip Report 3 min read
- Google Cards NOW! 2 min read
April
- Pecha Kucha - WTF! 2 min read
- Defocus to Refocus 2 min read
- Call of the Wild 2 min read
March
- Evaluating Accessibility-in-Use 2 min read
- Disabled Users are Überusers 2 min read
February
- Accessibility in Use 3 min read
- W4A - Are You Ready? 1 min read
- Bugs Become Features! 3 min read
2012
December
- Funded PhD in Lung Cancer and HCI 2 min read
- Scientific Movember 1 min read
November
- Vint Cerf on Accessibility! 2 min read
- ACM Open Publishing 3 min read
October
- Hurricane Sandy 1 min read
- ACM ASSETS 2012 Live Stream 1 min read
- Accessibility at Apple - One Year On 2 min read
- Let's Hangout at ASSETS 2012 1 min read
- Roll Up Roll Up of the ASSETS 2012 SRC 2 min read
September
- Adapting Interfaces to Suit Our Senses 2 min read
- Web Accessibility Metrics W3C WAI Report 2 min read
August
- CS Impact Factors are 'Pants' 3 min read
- SIGWEB Annual Report 9 min read
- Accessibility for All 3 min read
July
- Deep Accessibility 2 min read
- Accessibility & Big Open Data 2 min read
- RDWG Mobile Symposium Transcript 75 min read
- What Makes Digital Inclusion Good or Bad? 7 min read
June
- Word is getting out... 1 min read
- Caring for Carers 3 min read
May
- Advice for Alzheimer’s Carers 3 min read
- Camp Update - w4a accessibility a11y 3 min read
April
- I Love Active Tiles! [a11y accessibility UX] 2 min read
March
- UX Open Courseware - ux 1 min read
- Indie UI - WAI [Accessibility a11y] 2 min read
- W4A Camp [w4a12 w4acamp12] 1 min read
February
January
- HCI Capability in CompSci here at Manchester 4 min read
- The Personality Principle [ux] 3 min read
- SIGWEB Interview 2 min read
- Designing the Star User Interface [UX] 4 min read
2011
December
November
- UX Syllabus [ux] 7 min read
- UNIX is Usability, UNIX is Accessibility! 2 min read
- In Love Again [assets11 accessibility a11y] 2 min read
October
- Raspberry Pi [accessibility a11y] 2 min read
- ACM Author-Izer 2 min read
September
- UX the Ghost [ux] 10 min read
August
- Why do we need Mobile only Sub-sites? 2 min read
- Fitts, and the Amplitude of Movement 2 min read
- Accessibility 2020 [accessibility a11y] 3 min read
- UX Methods [ux] 5 min read
July
- External Validity [accessibility a11y] 4 min read
June
- ゆいまる - Yuimaru [w4a11 w4a12] 4 min read
- Digital Umami [accessibility a11y ux] 4 min read
May
- A History of HCI in 15 Papers 3 min read
April
- Of Chocolate and Human Factors 2 min read
- Single User Studies Considered Useful 3 min read
March
- Defining HCI: Meditations on Human Factors 4 min read
- Wordpress Accessibility [accessibility a11y] 2 min read
- Open Access at a Price 2 min read
- Ideology in Human Factors & CS 3 min read
February
- Computational Thinking 3 min read
January
- Back to Bush 3 min read
- 2010 In Review 2 min read
2010
December
- Research Funding - and a Happy New Year 2010 3 min read
- Defining UX - and a Merry Christmas 2010! 4 min read
November
- Human Factors from 30,000ft - Gime Feedback! 8 min read
- ASSETS 2010 Picks - assets10 4 min read
- Mark Lombardi and webartsci 2 min read
October
September
- Research Ethics 3 min read
August
July
June
- Da Vinci the Genius? 4 min read
- Model-Based User Interfaces and the Web 2 min read
- ‘As We May Think’ at 65 8 min read
- Web4All Conference 2010 5 min read
May
- That Pesky Number 7 5 min read
- Laughable Proposals to Raise UK Tuition Fees 3 min read
- Interaction Research Dead at WWW 3 min read
April
- Accessibility Equals Flexibility 4 min read
2005
March
- simonharper.info 5 min read