Miscellaneous and Useless Information » Human-computer interaction http://blog.jameslin.name Jimmy Lin's blog Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:07:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CHI 2011 Tweets: May 12–14 http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/19/twitter-chi-2011-05-12/ http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/19/twitter-chi-2011-05-12/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 06:24:16 +0000 Jimmy Lin http://blog.jameslin.name/?p=531
  • Buxton: Jobs revived Apple with people already employed there, such as Jonathan Ives. The culture needed changing, not the people. [original tweet]
  • Gerken et al present method called Concept Maps to elicit developer’s mental model of API. A related resource: apiusability.org [original tweet]
  • Missed Wrangler (creating data transformation scripts interactively), but saw Jeff Heer’s BayCHI talk on it. Good stuff! [original tweet]
  • Substance introduces data-oriented paradigm: data is tree of nodes, facets are behavior that can migrate from node-node [original tweet]
  • Shared Substance is a framework on top of Substance for multi-display apps, supports service-oriented and shared state. [original tweet]
  • For lunch: Japanese-style hot dog (Kurobuta pork, mayo, teriyaki, seaweed) and shio ramen. Made possible by not eating breakfast. [original tweet]

    Ethan Zimmerman’s closing plenary: Desperately Seeking Serendipity

    • People move to cities partly because it’s less boring and there’s more choice [original tweet]
    • Cities seem to provide more chances for serendipity, but people tend to stick to others similar to them (homophily) [original tweet]
    • Media consumption also very local. >90% read media in their own country. Leads to Tunisia revolution not well covered. [original tweet]
    • For serendipity, people must be prepared to take advantage of chances, and structures should be in place to create them. [original tweet]
    • What lessons about serendipity can we learn from cities and apply virtually? [original tweet]
    • Worth reading the “extended dance mix” of Ethan Zimmerman’s keynote. Only problem: you can’t hear him deliver it. [original tweet]

    And finally:

    • Nirmal Patel: “Updated online CHI program so each paper has a link to the ACM DL page.” [original tweet]
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  • Saw and enjoyed last 3 papers of Photo Sharing session, especially Jones and O’Neill on relationship of photo metadata and sharing [original tweet]
  • Will definitely discuss web credibility papers back at work. Need to read other 2 papers in that session. [original tweet]
  • Not tweeting much during CHI 2011 itself: the wi-fi is totally overloaded so I can’t connect [original tweet]
  • Larry Tesler’s talk was great. I knew he’s hugely important in HCI; I didn’t know he essentially invented cut/paste. [original tweet]
  • Kumar et al’s Bricolage (applying existing website’s design to other sites) normalizes DOM. Can see this work applied to lots of other areas [original tweet]
  • HyperSource by Bjoern Hartmann et al annotates lines of source code with related web browsing history. #want [original tweet]
  • Wondering how HyperSource can scale up, e.g., web page on design pattern affects many lines of code [original tweet]
  • Great to see utility of HCI work by Michael Toomim presented at CHI 2011. Eager to see how this work goes from here. +1 for soothing music. [original tweet]
  • Bakke et al adds data types, arrays, references to spreadsheets, allowing them to natively model 1-to-many, many-to-many relationships [original tweet] ]]> http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/18/twitter-chi-2011-05-11/feed/ 0 CHI 2011 Tweets: May 10 http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/18/twitter-chi-2011-05-10/ http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/18/twitter-chi-2011-05-10/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 04:18:37 +0000 Jimmy Lin http://blog.jameslin.name/?p=513
  • Freed looks like an interesting system for creating multiple views of a collection of digital objects (Mendels et al) [original tweet]
  • Odom et al: great discussion on the relationship of physical and virtual possessions, including metadata and perceived value [original tweet] ]]> http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/18/twitter-chi-2011-05-10/feed/ 0 CHI 2011 Tweets: May 9 http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/16/twitter-chi-2011-05-09/ http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/16/twitter-chi-2011-05-09/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 05:26:38 +0000 Jimmy Lin http://blog.jameslin.name/?p=510
  • Enjoyed talk by Leah Findlater on non-parametric factorial analysis techniques. Just the right depth for a CHI talk. [original tweet]
  • Didn’t go to many talks today at CHI 2011, a lot of schmoozing instead. Also, I must be getting old, greasy food getting to me. [original tweet] ]]> http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/16/twitter-chi-2011-05-09/feed/ 0 Twitter highlights: May 1–7, 2011 http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/15/twitter-2011-05-01/ http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/15/twitter-2011-05-01/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 03:22:37 +0000 Jimmy Lin http://blog.jameslin.name/?p=484
  • James Landay: “Nice profile of Scott Klemmer’s work in Technology Review: Tools for Better Web Design” [original tweet]
  • Watch President Obama announce the death of Osama bin Laden: MSNBC [original tweet]
  • [May 1] Osama’s death have prompted huge crowds to gather at World Trade Ctr. (Wall Street Journal) Hard to believe I was there <36 hrs ago. [original tweet]
  • Sadat Shami: “Interactive map of emotional reactions and the perceived significance on the war on terror after Bin Laden’s death” (New York Times) [original tweet]
  • Overrrated Outcast: “We still haven’t seen Sarah Palin’s high school diploma.” [original tweet]
  • Keir Clarke: “Washington Post Map of the American Civil War. I can’t believe how much work has gone into this animated time-line map.” [original tweet]
  • New York Times: Intel Increases Transistor Speed by Building Upward. James Landay adds: “This will be more important than people say.” [original tweet]
  • “Henry Kissinger”: “I asked Palin for her thoughts on secularism in Turkey. She said she only eats poultry from ‘God-fearing farmers’. #GiveMeStrength” [original tweet]
  • Overthinking It: The economics of Death Star planet destruction (via Daring Fireball) [original tweet]
  • Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (Physics FAQ) [original tweet]
  • Google at CHI 2011 (via Ed Chi [original tweet])
  • Another sweet stop-motion video: 2000 photos of Paris [original tweet]
  • A reminder to all Americans going to CHI 2011: Canada is a foreign country. Don’t forget your passport. [original tweet] ]]> http://blog.jameslin.name/2011/05/15/twitter-2011-05-01/feed/ 0 Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14 http://blog.jameslin.name/2010/02/14/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-14/ http://blog.jameslin.name/2010/02/14/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-14/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:30:00 +0000 admin http://blog.jameslin.name/2010/02/14/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-14/
  • Collection of iPad UI conventions pulled from frames of Apple’s demo videos. http://j.mp/daLakN (via @manukumar, @veen) #
  • RT @wattenberg a celebration of color (new piece with @viegasf): http://hint.fm/blog #
  • Must check this out: RT @landay nice talk by Paul Gross of Wash U. (C. Kelleher student) on code reuse in end-user programming tool #iui2010 #
  • Google Buzz: someone’s post can pop into my feed if enough people recommend it, even if I don’t follow them. Very useful within a company. #
  • Google’s code name for Buzz: Taco Town. http://bit.ly/afqsIF A lot of Googlers still calling Buzz postings “Tacos”. #

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    ]]>     http://blog.jameslin.name/2010/02/14/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-14/feed/ 0     HCI well represented in this year’s TR35 http://blog.jameslin.name/2009/08/18/hci-well-represented-in-this-years-tr35/ http://blog.jameslin.name/2009/08/18/hci-well-represented-in-this-years-tr35/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:54:18 +0000 Jimmy Lin http://blog.jameslin.name/?p=349 Congratulations to the HCI researchers in MIT Technology Review’s list of top 35 innovators under 35: Jeff Bigham, Jeff Heer, Shahram Izadi, Shwetak Patel, and Jamie Teevan. Represent!

    ]]>     http://blog.jameslin.name/2009/08/18/hci-well-represented-in-this-years-tr35/feed/ 0     Notes from my visit to Georgia Tech http://blog.jameslin.name/2008/02/25/notes-from-my-visit-to-georgia-tech/ http://blog.jameslin.name/2008/02/25/notes-from-my-visit-to-georgia-tech/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:42:24 +0000 Jimmy Lin http://blog.jameslin.name/2008/02/25/notes-from-my-visit-to-georgia-tech-2/ Last month I had the pleasure of visiting the GVU Center at Georgia Tech and talking with some of the professors and graduate students. Here are my (mostly unedited) notes on their research projects and interests. If anyone wants more info, please leave a comment.

    Keith Edwards

    (somewhat sparse — I think I was still getting warmed up)

    • tech intervention for homeless, social workers
    • human trafficking
    • usability of networking at home
    • InSpace (with Steelcase, Interface carpet) — smart office space

    Amy Bruckman

    • users creating content in social network
    • students writing about science in wiki → does it lead to deeper thinking?
      writing for an audience, not just teacher
    • how do people learn about games? as computational, social artifact
      ontology of game study
      GameLog (paper)
    • Computer Supported Cooperative Innovation
      • open source, open content works best when goal is well defined (implement an OS)
      • study groups of people collaboratively creating a Flash animation — open-ended task (Kurt Luther)
    • Facebook — share creative expression in apps
      NSF project on broadening participation in computing (with Mark Guzdial)
    • Why do African-American middle school boys play sports games but not go into tech?
      Provide opportunities for them to be game testers

    Mark Guzdial

    • Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought
      • natural language maps to primitive neurological concepts
      • implications for programming languages, end-user programming?
    • Media Computation curriculum (for non-technical)
      • all first-year students must take some programming class
      • 1999-2003 (before Media Comp curriculum)
        • 30% fail intro class, 51% management students fail
      • Now
        • 15% fail intro, 10-20% management fail
      • CS version: Python + Myro + scribbler robot
      • Engineers: Matlab
    • how to track reuse of code?
      • MIT Scratch: projects have watermark, can track reuse
    • Mike Eisenberg, Craft Technology Group (CU Boulder)
      • virtual origami
      • Scheme + image
      • graph + code synch
        • screensaver: demo what can be done in code later
    • Brian Dorn
      • studying end-user created Photoshop extensions
      • >100 lines of code
      • ICER 06 Canterbury (PDF)
      • VL/HCC 07 doctoral consortium (PDF), short paper (PDF)
    • Brian O’Neil
      • how can natural language influence programming language design
      • biology: tools for computational biology, use their terms for domain-specific language
    • More end-user programming resources
      • Lance Miller (Intl Jnl Man-Machine Studies 6 1974) (IBM Sys Jnl 20 1981)
      • Thomas Green (Jnl Vis Lang and Comp 7 1996)
      • (refs from John Pane, IJHCS 2001)

    Ellen Do

    • sketch to control robotic interaction
    • hospital room of the future (ubicomp)
    • record doctor interaction, playback
      to help with patient/family communication
    • handwashing compliance
    • course in creativity and cognition
    • course in wellness, emotion, sex, and technology
    • toys of the future (tangible media)
    • output as well as input
    • sketch understanding
    • doing health care research
      • lots of observations on paper
      • lots of time analyzing
    • technology to avoid unreimbursable costs
    • remote patient monitoring
    • microphone for patients with asthma
    • Kaiser Permanente Garfield Innovation Center for mock-ups of health care tech

    James Eagan (grad student of John Stasko)

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    Someone posted videos of the Thermo demo on YouTube. I highly recommend watching them; the demo is one of the most impressive I’ve seen, especially in the end-user programming area.

    ]]>     http://blog.jameslin.name/2007/10/04/adobe-thermo/feed/ 2     More iPhone reaction http://blog.jameslin.name/2007/01/10/more-iphone-reaction/ http://blog.jameslin.name/2007/01/10/more-iphone-reaction/#comments Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:52:15 +0000 Jimmy Lin http://blog.jameslin.name/?p=199 I just watched Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote introducing the iPhone. Boy, he is a great speaker. His reality distortion field was in full force — an article in Palm Infocenter argues that iPhone’s phone features aren’t new (but they’re sure slick). In contrast, the CEO of Cingular was stiffly reading off of index cards for five minutes. I think any CEO should be able to talk that long without notes, or at most one index card.

    Unfortunately, I read in Mobileburn.com and Gizmodo that the iPhone will indeed be a closed platform. Boo! Even lousy low-end phones can download Java apps. I hope Daniel is right and that Apple backs down somewhat by next year. I’ll settle for HTML and JavaScript Widgets at this point…

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