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  • Organising your PhD Data with Notion, Google Sheets, Google Drive

    Hello my mysterious PhD blog readers! How many of my friends are also pursuing obscure interdisciplinary PhDs? Who are you? What motivated your to read a post with a title like this? This blog has been on the backburner because I’ve been working on a massive DBBD website overhaul that I plan to launch in […]

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    March 17, 2023
  • A few of the educational metaverses at Edutech Asia 2022

    A speed tour of the Educational Metaverses at Day 1 of Edutech Asia. A conference and a full-on trade fair of educational technology companies: all the big names in learning management systems like Blackboard and D2L (Brightspace), familiar names like moodle and edpuzzle, google cloud storage, endless rows of projector companies, shockproof ipad cases for classrooms, gamification in education, interactive floor, block coding robots, AI tutors, AI in EVERYTHING!

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    A few of the educational metaverses at Edutech Asia 2022
    November 9, 2022
  • What I’ve been up to: Pluritopia Biennale, VRChat Safari, Caanart Pioneer Salon, CoHASS Conference 2022, and in-game photography workshop!

    Pluritopia Biennale (22 Sept 2022 – 28 Sept 2022) VRChat Safari (5 Oct 2022) Caanart Pioneer Salon (9 Oct 2022) CoHASS Conference (14 Oct 2022) In-Game Photography Workshop (27 Oct 2022) Do you like VR and do you like WEIRDNESS? Well then step right up, here’s my attempt to do a speedy documentation of all […]

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    What I’ve been up to: Pluritopia Biennale, VRChat Safari, Caanart Pioneer Salon, CoHASS Conference 2022, and in-game photography workshop!
    October 31, 2022
  • Time for the real work!

    Real Work? Welcome back to Debbie’s writing blog after an unexpected one month hiatus! It is Day 75 of my PhD and it has been a super busy month – I have never read so much or written so much in a long while! Because I am embarking on a practice-led PhD, I very much […]

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    Time for the real work!
    October 18, 2022
  • Behind-the-scenes of The Commuter: Realism, texturing, and baking

    What’s a practice-based PhD without a healthy amount of PRACTICE? Here are some behind the scenes shots for something I am currently working on in VRChat. A big question on my mind lately is: How Real does the Virtual Reality have to be? The detail has to be there, because it is used to allude […]

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    Behind-the-scenes of The Commuter: Realism, texturing, and baking
    September 19, 2022
  • I have never been to America, and I can’t tell you which are my favourite standardised musical goods

    Things are still so new that I can count them in terms of weeks. This is Week 6 of my PhD Studies! What has been on my mind this week? Well, besides attempting to do my own literature review for my own PhD, as part of the coursework I spent the first month of my […]

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    I have never been to America, and I can’t tell you which are my favourite standardised musical goods
    September 16, 2022
  • The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities

    The first month anniversary of me starting my PhD and a recap of what’s been on my mind – classic crit theory texts, uncanny wasp faces, the computational turn in the social sciences and humanities, the different typologies of the PhD Thesis, and a sneak preview of my research propositions.

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    The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities
    September 4, 2022
    cognitive psychology, coursework, literature review, practice-led research, research propositions
  • “Making Art” was my rejection of theory without practice

    This semester I’m taking a Proseminar on Art, Design and Media which describes itself as hoping to give the ADM PHD students a common intellectual ‘genealogy’ to speak of. And so we started going through a reading list of “classic” critical theory readings that immediately reminded me, somewhat nostalgically, of the time when I did […]

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    “Making Art” was my rejection of theory without practice
    August 17, 2022
    intellectual geneaology, practice, theory
  • 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
    productivity, research journal, writing
  • 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

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  • Organising your PhD Data with Notion, Google Sheets, Google Drive

    March 17, 2023
  • A few of the educational metaverses at Edutech Asia 2022

    November 9, 2022
  • What I’ve been up to: Pluritopia Biennale, VRChat Safari, Caanart Pioneer Salon, CoHASS Conference 2022, and in-game photography workshop!

    October 31, 2022
  • Time for the real work!

    October 18, 2022
  • Behind-the-scenes of The Commuter: Realism, texturing, and baking

    September 19, 2022
  • I have never been to America, and I can’t tell you which are my favourite standardised musical goods

    September 16, 2022
  • The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities

    September 4, 2022
  • “Making Art” was my rejection of theory without practice

    August 17, 2022
  • 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