About
My name is Juan David Hincapié Ramos and Peripeteia is my website. I am a PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen and my interests are tabletop interactions, public displays, and the role infrastructure awareness in the relation of infrastrucures, users and social structures.
I was born in Colombia, South America. I obtained a bachelor in Systems Engineering program at EAFIT University. At the same time started working as a research assistant, and later on as a software developer. I had two interships, the first one in Turkey doing mobile games development, and a second one in Denmark developing user interface for interactive games. Then, I continued working in Denmark for the same company Interactive Sports Games.
At the moment I am a PhD student for the IT University of Copenhagen in the Software Development group, under the supervision of professor Jakob E. Bardram. I work for an project called the The Collaborative Mini-Grid Project, where we are exploring Ubicomp technologies for sharing computing power in a community grid.Among other things I study innovation, technology and politics.
Peripeteia in literature is the moment when the main character realizes everything he believes is not true. Innovation and scientific improvement are based on chains of Peripeteia where we continuously rediscover that our believes are not quite right (in the case of continuous improvements) or that they are completely wrong (in the case of breakthroughs). At the personal level, Peripeteia entails the rediscovery of the world around us, of the self, and one’s possibilities.
A life of Peripetia, is a life always young.
