{"id":77,"date":"2015-06-18T22:23:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T05:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2015-06-18T22:23:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T05:23:38","slug":"chronicles-2015-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/chronicles-2015-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles: 2015 Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participated in\u00a0yearly <a href=\"https:\/\/wicseberkeley.wordpress.com\/\">Berkeley-Stanford Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering<\/a> meetup! I gave a talk on my project, Motif (and also used this as a chance to practice my talk before CHI :P) It was great to get together with all the cool women who were there, but I am noticing that I know less and less people with each coming year because the people I know start graduating. T_T<\/li>\n<li>Presented <a href=\"http:\/\/hci.stanford.edu\/publications\/2015\/motif\/motif-chi2015.pdf\">Motif<\/a>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/chi2015.acm.org\/\">CHI 2015<\/a>, which was in Seoul, Korea! Motif was one of the several papers from the Stanford Research group to receive an Honorable Mention award. Really proud of everyone!<\/li>\n<li>My poster to <a href=\"https:\/\/cc15.cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk\/\">Creativity &amp; Cognition<\/a> got in! I also ended up applying for and getting accepted to the Graduate Symposium sooooo I guess I&#8217;m working on pitching my thesis now.<\/li>\n<li>My ICWSM submission didn&#8217;t get in, so I submitted it to CSCW instead!\u00a0I tried to submit a more recent project to CSCW as well, but my results didn&#8217;t turn out well so that project ended up getting shelved for now.<\/li>\n<li>Spun up a new project about how to support experiences of failure for creative novices! That will be the project my <a href=\"https:\/\/curis.stanford.edu\/\">CURIS<\/a> students and I will be working on this summer.<\/li>\n<li>I completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/ml\">Machine Learning<\/a> course on Coursera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I made <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/116652729025\/got-hard-copy-proofs-of-my-very-first-prints\">my first prints<\/a>!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catprint.com\">Catprint<\/a>, the printing company I used, wants to feature me as an Artist of the Month, so in the near future, one of my prints will be sent out with every anime-related order they ship for one month!<\/li>\n<li>My drawing frequency\u00a0dropped a bit due to paper deadlines, but I <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Happy-Easter-525034021?q=gallery%3Ajojostory%2F1613776&amp;qo=2\">still<\/a> got <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Artemis-535183817?q=gallery%3Ajojostory%2F1613776&amp;qo=1\">some<\/a> drawing <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Illustrated-Pokemon-Type-Chart-536751241?q=gallery%3Ajojostory%2F1613776&amp;qo=0\">done<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>I wasn&#8217;t able to get into Fanime&#8217;s Artist Alley, so I registered to table at a few small conventions instead: <a href=\"http:\/\/cogscon.com\/\">CogsCon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/iie540.wix.com\/kinyoobicon2015\">Kinyoobicon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>CogsCon happened June 6, and it was my first time having a full table for myself! The Artist Alley was super dead for the first few hours, but got much busier during the second half of the day, during which I was able to make some good sales! It was good practice for larger cons, and both staff and attendees were super nice. I was sad when they announced this would probably be their last year.<\/li>\n<li>Continuing my streak of putting out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/\">Herogirl<\/a> page once a week. I need to start writing the next chapter&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>4,311 unique users made 57,319 pageviews this quarter. I didn&#8217;t have any superstar comics this quarter that pulled a lot of people from one place, like last quarter.<\/li>\n<li>People are viewing about 6 pages in 3 &#8211; 4 minutes per visit session<\/li>\n<li>Bounce rate is about 60% overall<\/li>\n<li>The most viewed comic is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2010\/01\/20\/her-name-is-auto\/\">the first comic<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Started setting up a Storenvy store to sell leftover product online. It&#8217;ll open in the summer!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Travel: CHI was in Korea, so I took the chance to visit a bunch of family! Then, I spent about 10 days in Japan, sightseeing in Kyoto and Tokyo. AMAZING.<\/li>\n<li>Attended Fanime 2015! It was fun seeing so many artists I met at AOD, and it was amazing how much more fun the Artist Alley was now that I know people! I bought too much stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Books:\u00a0Not a lot of reading this quarter. I read my first Terry Pratchett book, Small Gods.<\/li>\n<li>Anime: Yuru Yuri (hilarious), Kiniro Mosaic (also hilarious), Shirobako (LOVED IT! Highly recommended to anyone who&#8217;s ever worked really hard to make anything), Yowamushi Pedal (got super repetitive but I COULD NOT STOP WATCHING IT)<\/li>\n<li>Games:\u00a0No games finished this quarter \ud83d\ude41 I&#8217;m working very slowly through FFXII.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Academic Participated in\u00a0yearly Berkeley-Stanford Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering meetup! I gave a talk on my project, Motif (and also used this as a chance to practice my talk before CHI :P) It was great to get together with all the cool women who were there, but I am noticing that I know&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/chronicles-2015-spring\/\"> <strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}