Chris Heathcote.
28, male.
Gay, single.
Born in England, live in Helsinki.
Gonzo interaction design.
Mobile phones.
Buildings.
Signs.
Art.
Food.
my life in web services
read what I read at bloglines
buy what I buy from my amazon wishlist
listen to what I listen at audioscrobbler
see what I see at flickr (and see what I look like to others)
link what I link at delicious
do what I do at 43things (a bit abandoned)
media
Citizen Kane / Spongebob Squarepants / Hitchcock / Kids in the Hall / Haruki Murakami / the KLF / Lartigue / The Physiology of Taste / Jonathan Meades / Reeves & Mortimer / Patrick Keiller / William S Burroughs / Hunter S Thompson / Henry Rollins / Nigel Slater / Bruce Neuman / Olafur Eliasson / Jacques Tati / Akram Khan / George Piper Dances
presentations and talks
Tangible computing, Emerging Technology 2005, San Diego.
Location location location, Design Engaged, Amsterdam, 2004.
RFID and NFC, Eurofoo, the Netherlands, 2004.
Exhibitionists and Voyeurs, International Symposium on Electronic Arts 2004, Helsinki.
Intangibility, risome, University of Surrey, 2004.
The forgotten role of humans in collaborative cartography, locative media workshop, Mobile Connections/Futuresonic, Manchester, 2004.
Geowarchalking, ConconUK, London, 2004.
35 ways to find your location, Emerging Technology 2004, San Diego.
publications
On Mobile Handset Usability and Design, OK-Cancel, March 2005.
I have a hack in Mapping Hacks, O'Reilly, 2005.
I turned the exhibitionists and voyeurs presentation into a paper for the (never published) proceedings of ISEA2004.
work
robotic engineer
Perl programmer
UNIX systems administrator
tech support
HTML coder
project manager
account handler
digital planner
interaction designer
customer experience manager
product experience manager
user experience manager
orSyzygy
Head New Media
Unorthodox Styles
Orange
Nokia
disclaimer
I write for me, not for them.