Buxton: Jobs revived Apple with people already employed there, such as Jonathan Ives. The culture needed changing, not the people. Gerken et al present method called Concept Maps to elicit developer’s mental model of API. A related resource: apiusability.org Missed Wrangler (creating data transformation scripts interactively), but saw Jeff Heer’s BayCHI talk on it. Good …
Category Archives: Human-computer interaction
CHI 2011 Tweets: May 11
Saw and enjoyed last 3 papers of Photo Sharing session, especially Jones and O’Neill on relationship of photo metadata and sharing Will definitely discuss web credibility papers back at work. Need to read other 2 papers in that session. Not tweeting much during CHI 2011 itself: the wi-fi is totally overloaded so I can’t connect …
CHI 2011 Tweets: May 10
Freed looks like an interesting system for creating multiple views of a collection of digital objects (Mendels et al) Odom et al: great discussion on the relationship of physical and virtual possessions, including metadata and perceived value
CHI 2011 Tweets: May 9
Enjoyed talk by Leah Findlater on non-parametric factorial analysis techniques. Just the right depth for a CHI talk. 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.
Twitter highlights: May 1–7, 2011
James Landay: “Nice profile of Scott Klemmer’s work in Technology Review: Tools for Better Web Design” Watch President Obama announce the death of Osama bin Laden: MSNBC [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. Sadat Shami: …
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 # …
HCI well represented in this year’s TR35
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! Technology Review: TR35 2009
Notes from my visit to Georgia Tech
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.
Adobe Thermo
At its Max developer conference, Adobe gave a sneak preview of a new tool code-named Thermo that allows designers to create the front end to Flash-based rich Internet applications without writing code. For example, you can import a layered Photoshop image and convert parts of the image to real UI controls. You can also create …
More iPhone reaction
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 …