My own contribution was presenting "Jeeves", my visual programming environment for creating mobile experience-sampling applications. If you want to read all about it (please do!) the paper is here, and a wee blog post about it is here.
@danielrough gives an engaging talk on using blocks programming to facilitate mobile experience sampling #vlhcc15 pic.twitter.com/xwXgA0QpIj
— Brittany Johnson (@brittjayDLF) October 20, 2015
Enough about me for now, though. What struck me was the huge variety of visual language research currently going on. Here's me thinking that visual programming language research reached its peak in the early 90s, but it looks to be stronger than ever!
I got to meet a load of interesting people doing interesting stuff, all of whom were passionate and engaged in their visual language research. The talks were great, but when I say that the coffee breaks are the most important part of a conference, I mean that with sincerity, as that's when you really get to talk to people.
And yeah, talking about research is important and all, but the community is welcoming and friendly, so it ended up being a very social few days, too!
It was the best experience, and I hope we can all meet up again in Cambridge next year. It'd save me a long-haul flight next to a large Albanian man again, for sure.
I got to meet a load of interesting people doing interesting stuff, all of whom were passionate and engaged in their visual language research. The talks were great, but when I say that the coffee breaks are the most important part of a conference, I mean that with sincerity, as that's when you really get to talk to people.
And yeah, talking about research is important and all, but the community is welcoming and friendly, so it ended up being a very social few days, too!
It was the best experience, and I hope we can all meet up again in Cambridge next year. It'd save me a long-haul flight next to a large Albanian man again, for sure.
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