alan walks wales: sensing the miles - 3 - walking as research

Alan Walks Walesa short history of walking

walking as research

walking for war

Napoleon in Russia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia

The Long March

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March

Roman Legions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_legion

walking as political activism

Salt March (India) Jarrow March (UK)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257003/Last-Jarrow-Marchers-walked-300-miles-London-poverty-protest-dies-aged-96.html

walking as pilgrimage

Caminohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_St._James

Char Dhamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage

walking in the humanities

poetry & Romanticism(19th century)

psychogeographyall method?

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/b/british-watercolours-developing-landscape-subjects/ http://en.wikipedia.org/

wiki/Psychogeography

in HCI?

walker as subjecte.g. testing mobile apps sense of place

walker as data collectore.g. collecting CO2 data

walker as usere.g. health apps, asocial hiking, walking and energy in S. Africa

walker as researcherNot just me! Ellie Harmon, UC Irvine, walking PCT

walking as research

slow! ... and hurts :-/

imposed time frame ... for good & ill

waving banners

logistics

using technologyQ. “what technology do you use?”A. “a map”

keeping moving, in the wet, …