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  • What I learnt about “how to work” from 4 years, 10 months, and 25 days of teaching

    This is my first week as a PhD student at NTU ADM. The week before, I was furiously toiling on my work pc until the very eleventh hour. By which I mean I was supposed to return my laptop at 10AM but at 9.30AM on the cab into the office I was still trying to […]

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    What I learnt about “how to work” from 4 years, 10 months, and 25 days of teaching
    August 12, 2022
    productivity, time management
  • Interdisciplinarity, interstellar travel, and being an amateur

    Yesterday I had the pleasure of being on a panel discussion as a part of NUS Museum’s Summer Talk series – speaking with Prof Jose Ignacio Latorre (Director of CQT) and Rie Ong (NUS Museum) about interdisciplinarity. I prepared a little video segment that rambled on about my own thoughts on interdisciplinary practices – once […]

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    Interdisciplinarity, interstellar travel, and being an amateur
    July 22, 2022
    centre for quantum technologies, interdisciplinarity, interstellar travel, nus museum, space
  • What’s going on in VR, HCI and Games Research in 2022? – Notes from attending the IEEE VR 2022, CHI 2022, and DIGRA 2022 conferences

    Well folks, its official now. A couple months ago, I tendered from my teaching job and TODAY I’ve matriculated as a graduate student. In 24 days I will be embarking the first year of a PhD. Since the idea behind doing a PhD is presumably to do a lot of writing and get said writing […]

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    What’s going on in VR, HCI and Games Research in 2022? – Notes from attending the IEEE VR 2022, CHI 2022, and DIGRA 2022 conferences
    July 15, 2022
    CHI, DIGRA, IEEE VR
  • To journal on paper or digital? And what daily endeavours could significantly improve one’s writing and visual output?

    One of the things I’m trying to do is to write a journal daily, but for the last year or so I’ve already switched to a nearly paperless system using Goodnotes. My setup is that I use an iPad Pro 11″ which I think is a good balance between portability and power, and with that […]

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    To journal on paper or digital? And what daily endeavours could significantly improve one’s writing and visual output?
    July 7, 2022
  • Meta-Reading: Does interpassivity explain why I often end up reading books about Productivity and Lean Methodology instead of reading books about art, culture and actual literature in my free time?

    I want to read works of literature and books on art, culture, but instead I note that I frequently find myself avoiding those reads in order to read about entrepreneurship and productivity or lean startups. Why is there something unbearable about being confronted by the object of my fascination?

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    Meta-Reading: Does interpassivity explain why I often end up reading books about Productivity and Lean Methodology instead of reading books about art, culture and actual literature in my free time?
    June 27, 2022
    interpassivity, lean startup, productivity
  • My “Second Brain” Productivity System in Notion: Close your browser windows every night when you go to bed!

    A slightly revealing peek inside my Notion “Second Brain” system for productivity which allows me to peacefully close all my browser windows at night and sleep well without fitfully waking up in the middle of the night exclaiming “I REALLY HAVE TO FINISH READING THAT ARTICLE ON THE INTERNET”

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    My “Second Brain” Productivity System in Notion: Close your browser windows every night when you go to bed!
    June 20, 2022
    notion, second brain, shortform reflection
  • Interpassivity, the uncanny double of Interactivity

    Is the decision to keep on walking in an open-world game (as opposed to completing quests and interacting with NPCs and players) driven by some kind of notion of delegated consumption and interpassivity?

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    Interpassivity, the uncanny double of Interactivity
    June 13, 2022
    interactive, interactivity, interpassivity, robert pfaller, uncanny
  • Game Review: WINDOW by ATTEMPTS X The Doodle People

    SARA has gone missing and you have to solve the mystery by looking into her computer, which becomes a portal into various other folders and other alternate realities…

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    Game Review: WINDOW by ATTEMPTS X The Doodle People
    June 10, 2022
    ATTEMPTS, davey wreden, game review, stanley parable, the doodle people
  • Vectors of discovery: serendiptious discovery in libraries and bookstores

    What if the best way to browse information wasn’t just to use conventional categorisation, but instead to be able to explore the library in chaotically serendiptious ways?

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    Vectors of discovery: serendiptious discovery in libraries and bookstores
    June 10, 2022
    bookstores, discovery, knowledge, libraries, notion, serendipity
  • Could an “Exhibition Proposal” be an artistic research paper?

    In 2010 I wrote a 17-page exhibition proposal. Can art practice be research? Can an artwork produce knowledge? And could an exhibition proposal be an artistic research paper?

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    Could an “Exhibition Proposal” be an artistic research paper?
    June 7, 2022
    art practice, artistic research, artwork proposal, exhibition proposal, knowledge, practice-led research
  • The Multitude of Research Methodologies – Which ones should I use?

    What kind of research methodology should one use as an interdisciplinary researcher? Some general thoughts comparing computer science / social science / humanities / game philosophy approaches.

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    The Multitude of Research Methodologies – Which ones should I use?
    June 2, 2022
    artistic research, digital humanities, game philosophy, interdisciplinary, practice-led research, research methodology, social sciences
  • The Evolution of my PhD Proposal

    A frank timeline of my PhD application process and the evolution of my PhD proposal. An account of how I realised that I did not want to specialise in educational research or HCI research, and instead wanted to do Art Practice / Practice-led Research.

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    The Evolution of my PhD Proposal
    May 31, 2022
    career journey, career switch, CV, CV Futures, educational research, PhD Application, PhD Journey, PhD Proposal, timeline
  • Welcome to this Research Journal!

    Debbie is doing a PhD, which is a renewed commitment to writing! “The capacious holdall bag of the research journal can be ransacked for its gems at any time!”

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    Welcome to this Research Journal!
    May 31, 2022
    blogging, research journal, writing

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  • What I learnt about “how to work” from 4 years, 10 months, and 25 days of teaching

    August 12, 2022
  • Interdisciplinarity, interstellar travel, and being an amateur

    July 22, 2022
  • What’s going on in VR, HCI and Games Research in 2022? – Notes from attending the IEEE VR 2022, CHI 2022, and DIGRA 2022 conferences

    July 15, 2022
  • To journal on paper or digital? And what daily endeavours could significantly improve one’s writing and visual output?

    July 7, 2022
  • Meta-Reading: Does interpassivity explain why I often end up reading books about Productivity and Lean Methodology instead of reading books about art, culture and actual literature in my free time?

    June 27, 2022
  • My “Second Brain” Productivity System in Notion: Close your browser windows every night when you go to bed!

    June 20, 2022
  • Interpassivity, the uncanny double of Interactivity

    June 13, 2022
  • Game Review: WINDOW by ATTEMPTS X The Doodle People

    June 10, 2022
  • Vectors of discovery: serendiptious discovery in libraries and bookstores

    June 10, 2022
  • Could an “Exhibition Proposal” be an artistic research paper?

    June 7, 2022
  • The Multitude of Research Methodologies – Which ones should I use?

    June 2, 2022
  • The Evolution of my PhD Proposal

    May 31, 2022
  • Welcome to this Research Journal!

    May 31, 2022