Category Archives: CMU

Thesis Project Documentation

I’ve finally updated my portfolio site a bit, and have put up my thesis project presentation and documentation for anyone who’s interested.  You can download them here. Thanks for looking, and if anyone has feedback, or questions please don’t hesitate to post it or email me directly (paulrobare{at } gmail[dot] com)!

August 16, 2009 – 1:19 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design, Design Thinking, thesis | Comments (0)

Back to Blog

It has obviously been quite some time since I’ve made regular posts.  Partly this was a result of the chaos that is the last semester of grad school, and partly this was intentional rhetorical silence while I quested for a job. And now it’s all done – school is all over, my friends are all …

June 8, 2009 – 4:14 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU | Comments (0)

Interview at Designing for Service

Jeff Howard, a well-known service design thinker, blogger, and consultant has posted an interview with me at http://designforservice.wordpress.com/.  In the interview we talk about the project I worked on last semester for the Mayo Clinic and Design Continuum in Shelley Evenson’s service design course.  Thanks to Jeff for the opportunity to talk about my team’s …

April 28, 2009 – 9:45 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Thinking | Comments (0)

New Portfolio

I’ve revised my web portfolio – giving it a new and improved look and adding some work (and details about old work).  I’ll probably continue to tweak it, but I’m pretty happy with what’s there now.  I actually did the entire design and development (learning Javascript and jquery in the process) in three days.  The …

February 25, 2009 – 9:12 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Communication Design, Design Process, thesis | Comments (1)

Generative Doormat!

While I’m in the posting mood – I wanted to show off a little demo video I did for a quick assignment in Mark Gross’s Making Things Interact course.  The class has been great fun so far, allowing me to finally learn how to do my own circuit-bending, build things with arduino’s, and play in …

February 4, 2009 – 9:30 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Music | Comments (0)

Generative Systems

I’ve had the great fortune over the past day and a half to attend part of the Code, Form, Space symposium on “generative form and digital fabrication” put together here at CMU by Golan Levin (this is the second mini-symposium Golan has put together while I’ve been here and both have been fantastic).  In particular, …

February 4, 2009 – 9:20 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, CoolHunting, Design Thinking | Comments (2)

Designing History

History is one of those things that most folk take for granted, but which most folk also realize is largely subjective (even if they may not think about it much).  I remember that in my own primary education, the Viet Nam war was never mentioned.  There was usually a chapter devoted to it towards the …

January 7, 2009 – 9:30 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Communication Design, Design Thinking | Comments (1)

Interactions Article and Service Design Project

The new issue of Interactions magazine is now available online.  Check out my article on the history of sound in computing here (note that you’ll need ACM digital library access to get the full text). Also, I’ve added my team’s final service design -LiveWell- to my online portfolio.  Check out the video sketch and presentation …

December 31, 2008 – 4:04 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU | Comments (0)

Another Semester Gone

Wow!  I can’t believe it’s been a month since I last posted.  That was probably the last time I had a day off, but now sweet winter break has finally arrived. It’s also a little hard to believe that I’m now three quarters of the way through grad school.  Looking back, it’s hard to describe …

December 21, 2008 – 2:24 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, thesis | Comments (0)

The Rising Sun

Walking onto campus this morning, I was surprised to see a pimply-faced white kid marching along with a Japanese Rising Sun flag draped around him like a cloak.  So surprised that I didn’t think to say anything to him until a minute later, by which time he was gone. What I should have done, was …

November 10, 2008 – 7:22 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Thinking | Comments (0)