Since I was meeting Ramanee Pieres yesterday I decided to look up her page on the School of computing website, and what i found as astonishing. Ramanee has ben involved with 24 publications spanning across at least 10 years. To add to that the subjects she was involved in were close to the kind of computing I'm interested in. one paper that caught my eye was "The effects of simulating human conversational style in a computer-based interview", which you have to remember was written in the year 2000, before social networking was around. So I went across to find out about the SMS facilities of the University and we ended up talking for a good 30-40 minutes about user centered design, social networking and some general ways to make my forms more effective in capturing an audience, which is a primary goal.
The SMS functions appear fairly simple, to send a mass text I'll need a list of numbers and a message, and to recieve It's a case of setting up a prefix code and an address to forward the message on to.
I spent the next few hours working on my 3 forms before my 3:30 meeting with Lorraine. I printed the 3 forms in their current states to let her see where I was with each one. She seemed pleased with the progress so far and even liked the idea of a funny picture or graphic at the end of each page. Unfortunately Ramanee will be away the next few weeks, so I'll be spending the time developing the web application.
Today though I have a meeting with Janet and Marianne Kenley, who's in charge of all the space in Dundee campus. I'm going to continue worming on forms until the meeting, focusing on Javascript. The problem i see today is The voi between practical ideas and complicated code, but I will persist!
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