Amber Case
Amber Case
Hazelnut Consulting- Website: http://oakhazelnut.com/
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Biography
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and Consultant currently living in Portland, Oregon. She founded CyborgCamp, a conference on the future of humans and computers. She has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT’s Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference. She’s also spoken at Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder. She’ll be presenting an Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology at Portland’s Webvisions 2009. She also writes for Discovery Channel’s Nerdabout.com.
Case specializes in information architecture, usability, online productivity, strategy, and ground-breaking communication methods. She is currently writing a book on applying anthropological techniques to better understand industry ecosystems. Find her on Twitter @caseorganic.
Amber received her degree in Sociology/Anthropology from Lewis & Clark College in this Spring with a thesis on “The Cell Phone and Its Technosocial sites of Engagement”.
Open Source Bridge 2011
Sessions for this user
* Location-Based Hacks - How to Automate Your Life with SMS and GPS
Have you ever wanted to automatically turn on your lights when you get home, or turn them back off when you leave? What about controlling your lights by SMS or IRC? This presentation will teach you how to automate your life with location-based hacks and SMS.
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Hacks |
| Amber Case, Aaron Parecki | |
Open Source Bridge 2010
Sessions for this user
* Non-visual location-based augmented reality using GPS data
Augmented Reality and Geolocation have been hot topics this year, but there has often been a confusion between aesthetics vs. practicality, and fantasy vs. reality. This presentation will highlight the advantages and disadvantages of visual and non-visual augmented reality. We'll tell stories from our experiences building location-aware social networks with custom proximity notification.
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Hacks |
| Aaron Parecki, Amber Case | |
Open Source Bridge 2009
Sessions for this user
* Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
Featuring Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, and Kurt von Finck of Monty Program AB.
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Culture |
| Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Amber Case, Kurt von Finck | |