Posts Tagged ‘hci’
Changing the world through HCI (and WebSci!)
Posted by: clare on: November 23, 2012
Ben Shneiderman visited the University of Southampton this week. Huzzah! I’ve been influenced by Ben’s writing over the last couple of years, particularly his article on Micro- and Macro-HCI, in which Ben calls for an understanding of experiences, emotions, aesthetics and social aspects. (Given that my doctorate concerned understanding social and emotional aspects of experience, [...]
Unethical interfaces
Posted by: clare on: October 17, 2012
Here’s a story that really annoyed me this week: iPhone users being tracked, and opting out is tricky. What annoyed me isn’t so much the tracking itself — as Mike Jewell pointed out, the tracking uses aggregate data rather than information that can necessarily identify you personally. What I’m annoyed about is the interface. As [...]
Digital Interaction at Culture Lab
Posted by: clare on: August 7, 2012
So, I have some news — eight months after rocking up to Newcastle University, I’m returning to the south of England. I’m looking forward to the new things ahead, but I remain inspired by the breadth and quality of the work that goes on here in Newcastle. I’d like to illustrate what I mean: A week or [...]
Web Science and Human-Computer Interaction: When Disciplines Collide
Posted by: clare on: June 23, 2012
I’m really excited about the paper I’m presenting today. It’s entitled Web Science and Human-Computer Interaction: When Disciplines Collide. As you might suspect from the title, it concerns the intersections and opportunities involved in the relationship between HCI and WebSci. The story behind the paper is that way back in January, before I started at Newcastle, [...]
Culture Lab: tight knit and very focused
Posted by: clare on: May 3, 2012
I’ve been at Culture Lab for almost four months: this seems like a good juncture to reflect upon life in the lab. I did my doctorate in ECS at Southampton, and then a postdoc at the Industrial Design department of TU Eindhoven. Culture Lab is totally unlike either of those places: it’s very youthful. There’re [...]
