This year’s European IA summit in Berlin, to be held on the weekend of Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2006, looks to be one of this year’s not-to-be-missed conferences for …
An interview with Barry Schwartz on the Paradox of Choice
UIE’s Jared M. Spool has recently had the opportunity to speak with Professor Barry Schwartz about his research on how people make choices, his book The Paradox of Choice: Why …
Programme for OZ-IA conference in Sydney (Sept 2006)
Following my previous post on the OZ-IA conference in Sydney next month, the conference programme has now been announced with some exciting practical sessions. Eric Scheid forwared me an e-mail …
ENGAGE! – The 20th BCS HCI Group conference
ENGAGE! the 20th BCS HCI Group conference will be held on the 11-15 September 2006 at Queen Mary, University of London. Engage and be engaged in an exciting conference in …
Oz-IA 2006 Conference, Sydney (September)
Eric Scheid forwarded me an email on the forthcoming OZ-IA conference in Sydney later this year. :) It’s great to hear this conference is happening back home! I remember (while …
Papers from the Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005
Papers presented at the NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005, MMUI 2005, Sydney, Australia.
Don Norman receives Benjamin Franklin Medal for UCD
The 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer & Cognitive Science is awarded to Donald Norman for the development of the field of user-centered design, which utilizes our understanding of how …
Eye tracking experiences by Seth Godin
Paul Love from work forwarded this great blog post by Seth Godin on his experiences from Eye Tracking. I think websurfing is a hunting activity. The eye is looking for …
NASA’s Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment
Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment Since the dawn of the space age, unmanned spacecraft have flown blind with little or no ability to make autonomous decisions based on the content of the …
IA Summit 06 Redux
According to recent academic and business research, there is an enormous wave of people on its way to adulthood that may very well take us by surprise. And while many …
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences
Peter Merholz posted an interesting dicussion the other day on the classification of systems becoming invisible through use. Bowker and Star showed that classification systems become invisible through use, but …
Task-based navigation vs. topic-based navigation
I’ve recently been working on a project with Grand Union where the discussion of task-based navigation vs. topic-based navigation came up. After a search on the Web, I came across …
Lecture on Empathy & appropriation in designing for the blind
Salvatore Fiore will be conducting a lecture with the University of York’s HCI GROUP on the 17th of October 2005 titled, Empathy and appropriation in designing for blind experience. The …
Peter Morville’s new book Ambient Findability
I’ve ordered the new Peter Morville book, Ambient Findability earlier today from Amazon UK. His new book covers the intriguing convergence of information and connectivity within Human Information Interaction (HII). …
Barry Schwartz and The Paradox of Choice
Mark Hurst has written an informative summary of his conversation with Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, a new book which discusses excessive choice, choice overload, anxiety, and …