{"id":2,"date":"2021-09-09T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-07-11T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T14:03:01","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a world dominated by numbers it is important that everyone can make sense of the issues that affect us all: the economy, climate change, health.\u00a0 This typically does not require precise calculations (arithmetic), nor abstract algebra (mathematics), but sits somewhere in between.\u00a0 When you are filing a bowl of water, you know to reduce the flow form the tap as the bowl nears its top \u2013 this is is precisely a qualitative understanding (slower flow =&gt; slower filling) of a quantitative phenomena (exact flow rates and volumes).<\/p>\n<p>This microsite will gather information and resources linked to QQ reasoning.<\/p>\n<h2>Related talks and publications<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/academic\/papers\/AVI2024-justcounting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Just Counting \u2013 a tool ecosystem for personal numeric information.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Proc. of AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/academic\/talks\/Ulster-2024-QQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Qualitative\u2013Quantitative reasoning and lightweight numbers<\/strong><\/a>, seminar at University of Ulster, 22 Feb 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/academic\/talks\/BCS-IwC-Covid-Feb-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why pandemics and climate change are hard to understand and make decision making difficult<\/strong><\/a>. A. Dix, R. Bond, and A. Caraban.\u00a0 <em>Online Seminars on Human Computer Interaction and User Experience Presented by British Computer Society Interaction Group and Interacting with Computers<\/em>, 27th February 2023<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/academic\/talks\/CHIRA2022-keynote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truth in an Age of Information<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Keynote at\u00a0<i>International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA 2022)<\/i>, Malta, 27-28 Oct 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/academic\/papers\/ICTCS-QQ-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qualitative\u2013Quantitative Reasoning: thinking informally about formal things<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Keynote at ICTAC 2021: 18th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, September 6-10, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alandix.com\/academic\/papers\/QQ-Emergent2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qualitative\u2013Quantitative Reasoning\u00a0&#8211; Understanding and managing the behaviour of numeric phenomena<\/a>.<\/strong> In <em>Emergent Interaction Complexity, Dynamics, and Enaction in HCI<\/em>, A CHI 2021 Workshop held online, 15th May, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world dominated by numbers it is important that everyone can make sense of the issues that affect us all: the economy, climate change, health.\u00a0 This typically does not require precise calculations (arithmetic), nor abstract algebra (mathematics), but sits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/qqr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}