Posts Tagged ‘user experience’
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, [...]
PowerPoint: an awesome wireframing tool
Posted by: clare on: October 27, 2012
Part of my recent work for Seme4 has involved sketching up a few interface options for our client. I spent a short while looking around the various wireframing options on the market. Pen and paper make a good starting point, but once you want to hone ideas and present something reasonably professional looking, it makes [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Too many options? Ubiquitous computing and persuasive technology
Posted by: clare on: December 28, 2011
Earlier this month I attended the EIT workshop on best practice in user-centered design. Towards the end of the day, discussion turned towards the plethora of Helpful Things we can do with technology — specifically, the information we can offer when people make decisions that impact on their health, finances and environment. For instance: travel [...]
Best practice in user-centered design: this week’s workshop
Posted by: clare on: December 11, 2011
On Wednesday of this week I had the pleasure of attending a best practice workshop on user-centered design. This was held at Philips Research in Eindhoven, and run by a big European project, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) ICT Labs. There were nine of us present, which was a good number: few enough that [...]
Design: it’s the simple things
Posted by: clare on: December 5, 2011
Not so long ago, I was struck by some traffic lights near to the TU/e. More accurately, I was struck by how waiting at this particular set of lights seems to go much faster. I’m sure it’s because the lights include a countdown to when you can cross: you can see it below the red [...]
Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design
Posted by: clare on: December 3, 2011
AndySC was kind enough to loan me his copy of Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design. It’s a good book! It divides itself into two parts, frameworks and techniques. The first section struck me as particularly strong, with some really nice discussions of information as a material, and the history and use of metadata. The [...]
Tiree Tech Wave 2, TAPTed
Posted by: clare on: December 2, 2011
Alan had a fun idea towards the end of the Tiree Tech Wave 2: why not apply the analytical phase of TAPT to the experience of the TechWave? So we did :) TAPT is the method I developed and evaluated in my EngD: it’s for analysing and redesigning experiences. So on the final day, the [...]
Where are we on open social networking?
Posted by: clare on: November 27, 2011
Once upon a time, everyone was talking about the concept of open social networking: we saw a brave new world where social networking corporations wouldn’t hold our data in proprietary formats, where we’d have ownership of and access to our data. What’s the latest on that, people? Of course, Diaspora has been widely publicised as [...]
