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Events and what's on across the Central Coast NSW. We speak with local businesses and get the latest on what's on from top to bottom. Exclusive competitions, local news and so much more. Kay and Ted take a light hearted approach to everything coastie related for you to catch up on your way to work or while your waiting for the kids after school. With regular interviews from locals and celebrities, as well as the occasional free business tip with Ted Talks Tech. Want to get involved? Get in c ...
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This week we are introducing the concept of wearable computing. We will cover some of the challenges of developing wearables from technical and non-technical perspective. We'll also talk a little about 'Wear OS by Google' (which is Google's rebranded 'Android Wear'). Smartwatches in particular were predicted to have had an explosion in use; they've…
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Back in Week 2 we talked about the challenges of interaction in mobile and ubiquitous computing contexts. And this week we're coming back to it in a different way – gestures. Gestures are often thought of as being a natural part of communication. Could they be a good fit for contexts were a keyboard and mouse is not really appropriate? This week we…
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Sandy Starviking talks to us about the healing powers of hypnotherapy and the ways it can be used in our day to day lives dealing with the stresses and anxiety that modern life can bring. See more about Sandy at her website www.thestarviking.com Noise cancelling headphones are the bomb, how we use them to get things done at home and avoid all the n…
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This is a reading of John Krumm's "A survey of computational location privacy" paper from Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. It's quite old now, but I think it still gives a really good introduction to privacy concerns surround location-based services and reviews a variety of computational techniques for reducing the chances of data leakage. Full p…
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One of the biggest and most important topics in mobile and ubiquitous computing is privacy and security. Having lots of devices transmitting huge amounts of telemetry all over the world comes with a number of privacy and security challenges. We'll start off by considering a 'local' or on-person threat to privacy in the form of RFID cards. Then we'l…
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By Cecchinato, Gould and Pitts. This article is about telemtry-based workplace tracking and its implications for the wellbeing of workers. It reviews previous literature from sociological and HCI traditions and ends with thoughts on how workers might be able to collectively bargain over data collection in a way that evens the power imbalance common…
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This week we're focusing on telemetry. Telemetry is a really critical part of ubiquitous computing systems; it's the label for how we collect, transport and store data collected both through sensors and from people. Telemetry supports context building, which can improve the awareness of particular applications. But there are limitations to telemetr…
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Loved our chat today with local business guru Jayde Woodward of Optus Business Central Coast and how they've brought support home to the coast so that anyone in business can benefit the best of both worlds - industry leading infrastructure for small business and enterprise environments with a brilliant range of solutions for internet and telephony …
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Just a quick one this week to get back in the swing of things, we talk about the fiasco that was Facebook in Australia, all the wonderful photographers in our group, the CC365.news platform and of course the Central Coast Council rates harmonisation. Quick congratulations to Kay for winning the Central Coast Council Business Connecting Communities …
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This is a classic contribution by Steve Benford and colleagues. The article is about the deployment of a complex location-based game platform. The focus of this paper is specifically on the breakdowns experienced by players and how this influenced playing styles and perspectives on the game. It is critical for us because it is a demonstration of th…
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This week we're going to be covering one of the most salient aspects of context-aware computing: location. We're going to start off by discussing existing location-sensing technologies, such as GPS (and related services) as well as less well-known technologies from the history of ubiquitous computing. We're also going to cover aspects of Android lo…
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We get lots of notifications on our mobile devices from all kinds of services. Sometimes we suffer from 'notification overload'. Why do notifications disrupt us in this way? In this podcast we'll be learning how psychological theory can help us to understand the sources of notification overload. We'll also discuss how notifications can be made more…
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In this podcast I read Anind Dey's 'Context-aware Computing' chapter from John Krumm's Ubiquitous Computing Fundamentals. Although this reading is quite long (over an hour), Dey provides a lot of detail on the history of context-aware computing as well as discussing practical aspects of developing context-aware systems.…
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This week we're covering two slightly separate topics. First, we will cover context-awareness in ubiquitous computing. Context-awareness is a tricky thing to define, but we're still going to think about the kinds of properties a context aware system should have. In the second part of this podcast we're going to be focusing on web-based APIs and why…
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This is a reading of Wiseman et al.'s "User Your Words" paper, published at CHI 2016. The paper can be viewed in the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2858036.2858377 The paper is about developing pairing codes for digital radios. Numeric, alphanumeric and word-based codes are considered and tested in an experiment.…
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This week I introduce the module. We start off with a short history of the evolution of computing over the decades. Next, you'll hear about how mobile phones have become the dominant ubiquitous computing technology. The main part of the podcast finishes by introducing some of the kinds of 'ubicomp' research that we're going to touch on throughout t…
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You've no doubt seen his work online or somewhere out and about on the coast so this week we talk to artist Pete Rush about his magnificent sculptures he has been constructing in our waterways. We were also joined by Monique from Out Of The Blue Productions that organises Coast Life Festival, Coast Life is a magnificent showcase of everything coast…
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With a number of upcoming episodes dedicated to the Central Coast Council's upcoming and in progress projects we talk with CC Mayor Lisa Matthews along with other council representatives in what we're now referring to as bonus episodes. This week we're joined by Phil Cantillon – Acting Director Connected Communities & Mike Horan – Project Manager C…
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This week we reiterate what was spoken about on the last podcast ep 23 about playspaces across the Central Coast and go straight to the source with Mayor Lisa Matthews and Playspaces head Karen Tucker who drill down a little bit deeper on what's happening in the world of playspaces/playgrounds across the coast and some commonly asked questions they…
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On this weeks episode we talk about the Central Coast Truffle Festival, we've got our favourite restaurant, who will be yours? Wearing masks around town is starting to become more common. Central Coast playspaces is who looks after all the parks, playgrounds and other playspaces, we talk about the different classifications, how budget and equipment…
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This week is a bit longer but we know you'll get something out of it with some fantastic tax tips from Vanessa and Andrew from Kelly + Partners Central Coast. They've got tips for both businesses and individual tax returns things you can deduct and any last minute advice on maximising this years return. Please remember this advice is general in nat…
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This week we talk to Tara Mollel, a business and leadership coach. She helps business owners move from overwhelm and chaos to confidently leading their team and growing the business to the next income level. Through business mastery tribe Tara creates a full step by step sales and marketing road map for business owners to gain complete clarity on t…
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Is your online security up to scratch? With an ever increasing number of people online and wait times on the phones to talk to banks, telcos, virtually any company with a call centre all through the roof currently, scammers and hackers are all too well aware and will take advantage of it all. We go over our experience that has only just happened to…
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Bit of a break between episodes but here we are just before Christmas with our latest Mayoral interview. Ted talks about the quality of the waterways and what both local and state governments have said and are doing on the issue and Kay has thousands of dollars worth of prizes to give away. PS apologies for the audio quality during the interview st…
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We talk to Central Coast Mayor Jane Smith about Sportsfest 2019, Live to 150 water wise, PAMP cycle and walking paths across the coast and Spring school holiday program for the coast. Ted Talks Tech covers the ever important subject of SEO for your website and some simple tips you can do to gain better rankings…
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This week we have co-host Scott Davis from Riffpad studio having a chat and our interview with Chris McClellan of Central Coast Eisteddfod about whats coming and what they do and how you can get involved. Ted Talks Tech with getting the most out of your battery life on mobile and laptop and Kay updates a few things on what's happening around the co…
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We tested out our new little space for podcasts tonight with the Travelling Bushman as our co-host, listen in as Kay gets choked out by the snake he brought along. We also chat with Andrew Smith from Central Coast Aero Club, a lot happening there in Warnervale at the moment. Ted Talks Tech: Latest change in Instagram with the likes being withheld n…
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