For the last few years, there has been more and more discussions around Continuous Discovery. The 2021 book by Teresa Torres titled Continuous Discovery Habits placed a spotlight again on …
Scientific journal Nature makes all its academic papers free for the Public
Macmillan Science & Education will allow the public to access its treasure chest of rich scientific research was announced today. Articles on nature.com will be made widely available to read and …
Jonathan Brill’s keynote on the Future of Mobile UX
Design for Mobile: Future of Mobile UX Opening keynote at the Design for Mobile conference in Chicago IL,. Jonathan Brill discussed several future scenarios for mobile user experience and their …
ACM Ubiquity paper (2005) on the challenges of Invisible Computing
Reflections on Challenges to the Goal of Invisible Computing by Arun Kumar Tripathi Department of Philosophy of Technololgy – Institute for Philosophy Dresden University of Technology – Germany Technology becomes …
Clay Shirky on information overload versus filter failure
A really interesting Clay Shirky talk from Web 2.0 Expo NY. His talk “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure” challenges the idea that we’ve got information overload problems (we’ve …
What is etymology and folk-etymology?
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Through old texts and comparison with other languages, etymologists reconstruct the history of words – when they entered a language, from …
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 …
Papers from the Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005
Papers presented at the NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005, MMUI 2005, Sydney, Australia.
Referential & Experiential blog users
An interesting discussion and blog post about two identified types of blog users. Referential Experiential It’s interesting because when building blog and personalisation areas to websites, we can now identify …
MapCruncher: Interactive Web Maps Come to Life
MapCruncher – a prototype technology from Microsoft Research that makes it easy for users to create their own, personalized mash-ups – may revolutionize the way people use online maps. An …
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 …
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 …
Characteristics of Being In Flow & current literature
Victor Bayin has commented on the ACM Ubiquity article by Benjamin B. Bederson titled, Interfaces for Staying in the Flow. I haven’t read it yet, but it looks like an …
An introduction article on Taxonomies
Liz Edols has written a great introductory article on what exactly are Taxonomies? …’structures that provide a way of classifying things – living organisms, products, books – into a series …