Drupal and Web 3.0

Speaker: Maneesh Mathai

Affiliation: University of Western Sydney

Time: Monday 27/05/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00

Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).

Abstract:

It's the question everyone's asking these days: Is your site mobile friendly?

The dramatic growth of tablets and smartphones the rise of "mobile" -- has forced many of us to rethink our approaches to web design, site building, and content strategy. That kind of transformation isn't new, though, and the disruption we're dealing with won't end until we've launched our next responsive design. How can we prepare for the future without driving ourselves crazy (or exploding our budgets)?

Responsive Design is arguably one of the biggest step forward and the biggest buzzword in web design today. In this session, we'll see what other forward-thinking organizations are doing to future proof their content and prepare for a crazy multi-device world. And finally, we'll look at how Drupal's tools can help make the process simpler and how semantic web can helps us acheive a user and machine friendly ecosystem.

The future is not on your desktop, so you’d best learn to design for it wherever it is.

Biography: Maneesh Mathai is a Master of Science (Honours) student in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, at the University of Western Sydney. He graduated from Mahatma Gandhi University, India, specializing in computer science in 2008. Previously, he worked as a Web developer, working closely with NGOs to develop an online platform that enables the print-impaired people to connect and share accessible content as well as build conversations and communities around the shared content. In addition, he has worked with medical practitioners to develop an online collaborative platform for the medical community to share multimedia contents. In his Masters research project he aims to identifying a computational models for context analysis and approaches for content aggregation. His research interests include Social Life Networking, Content Management Systems, Scenario analysis and Modelling information systems.