Great talk by Gillian Crampton-Smith (read another great interview here) - what is design research, when is design research and such matters are beautifully dealt with in her talk at Innovationsforum
Gillian Crampton-Smith // Convivio // IUAV from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.
Add comment April 23rd, 2008
The Mars Desert Research Station project is fascinating in all its enthusiastic, slightly nerdy, and energetic frenzy to find out what it would mean to live on Mars. Now, they have also had a socalled FLAME (family living analysis on Mars) team out in the Utah desert for some research on what it would mean having a family living on Mars. Aside from the expected (primary geological) research, the FLAME team is focused on psycho-social aspects of living together, of coping with frustration and other interesting issues. Perhaps designing for interactions with smart environments on the Mars habitats, creating better potential for peacefull co-habitation in a tincan placed on one of the more unforgiving places in the solar system will come to be a major challenge for human-factors specialists and HCI people sometime during the next decade. I do hope, however, that they will recruit beyond the usual suspects in space exploration: engineers, biologists, and other natural scientists. If people are supposed to live, work, and enjoy themselves in a hermetically closed, high-tech habitat (a wicked problem if there ever was one), input from the “softer” (man, I hate that adjective) sciences will be extremely valuable. Anthropology, sociology, even psychology + a healthy dose of design thinking will be needed if we’re one day supposed to reach the stars!
Add comment March 6th, 2008
Bill Buxton gives a brief history of multitouch interaction. I find it interesting to see the amount of reuse taking place, the way, for instance, the 1992 Simon shares a lot of stuff with the iPhone…
Add comment January 2nd, 2008
Thursday, I defended my thesis on “Trust Within Technology: Risk, Existential Trust, and Reflective Designs in Human-Computer Interaction”…the doctor is in the house! Find the abstract here...
bliss…
Add comment November 4th, 2007
Here’s the poster from the Reflective HCI workshop, CHI2006. Courtesy of Carl, Kirsten, Rogerio and myself
Add comment June 1st, 2006
So the theme for the British HCI 2006 this year is Engage. Too late to submit, but note how almost everything resonates with the emphasis given to experience, interpretation etc. Humanist is the new black in HCI, I guess. Which is good, but I’m beginning to wonder where all the other people go these days - where do good old Information Processing HCI people go to get their kicks? Not that I miss them too much, and you’ll bump into them occasionally at these conferences, keeping a bit to themselves muttering “it’ll pass, it’ll pass…”. But still, big things are happening, and it’s exciting to follow how the field is really, truly redefining itself these days.
Add comment February 7th, 2006
Looking forward to this workshop at CHI2006 in Montreal.
2 comments January 25th, 2006
So I’m abroad now, pulled up by the root, trying to resettle in Ithaca, NY, USA…if only for another month. Too bad really, just when I’m getting the feeling we’re settling in. The kind people at Information Science @ Cornell, the Culturally Embedded Computing Group (CEMCOM), notably Phoebe Sengers, have been really supportive, and I suspect things will get intense in terms of writing up on a central chapter in my thesis in the next 4-5 weeks. What’s going on at CEMCOM? Check their blog or sample some of the papers (1, 2, 3) on the CEMCOM page.
Add comment September 1st, 2005
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Apr | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
