Posts Tagged ‘human factors’
Have you done interdisciplinary work? A call for participation!
Posted by: clare on: May 2, 2013
Have you done interdisciplinary work? Perhaps you’ve worked in Web Science or a related area. Maybe you’re a sociologist who has studied societal impacts of the web, or a designer who has worked on web interfaces for groups. Perhaps you’re a psychologist, criminologist or sociologist with a long-running interest in web-related issues… or an economist, [...]
Recommended article: rethinking passwords
Posted by: clare on: March 15, 2013
William Cheswick‘s recent CACM article, Rethinking Passwords, is an excellent and timely read. As Cheswick points out, there is “an authentication plague upon the land”, with everyday internet users running dozens of accounts that all require passwords. Account providers often enforce inconsistent and incomprehensible rules about each of those passwords (“at least 6 characters, but [...]
Qualitative analysis: a few references
Posted by: clare on: December 19, 2012
I ran into a WAIS PhD student a few weeks ago; she’s just writing up, and we got talking about qualitative methods. She asked if I’d send her a few of my references on the area. They might be useful to a few other people too, so here they are: On mixed methods, multiple perspectives [...]
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 [...]
CHI’12: some reflections
Posted by: clare on: May 20, 2012
It’s 8 days since I stumbled — jetlagged, sleep-deprived and brimming over with ideas — back home to Newcastle. This week involved a lot of playing catch-up with the day job (and indeed my life outside of work!), but what better time than a Sunday afternoon to step back and reflect on CHI 2012? Community [...]
Uncomfortable Interactions
Posted by: clare on: April 11, 2012
One of the joys of working at Culture Lab is the excellent seminar series. Yesterday we welcomed Steve Benford from Nottingham’s Mixed Reality lab, who talked to us about Uncomfortable Interactions. This is work that was given a Best Paper award at this year’s CHI conference, and it was a treat. Uncomfortable? (CC Image courtesy [...]
Web-based resources for ethical research
Posted by: clare on: January 3, 2012
Another of the conversations I had at the workshop on best practice in User-Centered Design concerned the ethics process. As I mentioned in my original write-up of the day, I did a quick straw poll and was surprised to find a roughly fifty-fifty split amongst participants regarding whether their workplaces use a formal ethics process. [...]
