Interactions Magazine

Interactions

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January / February

2007

In This Issue:

Issue Features

"Help yourself!: We have better things to do..."
Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson

A pattern language for user assistance
Mike Hughes

Arbitration of a help system
Garett Dworman

Assisting e-government users with animated talking faces
P. Foglia, M. Zanda, C.A. Prete, F. Giuntoli

Embedded user assistance: the future for software help?
Matthew Ellison

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: combining text and visual interfaces for security-system administration
William Yurcik, Esa M. Rantanen, Michael B. Twidale, Ramona Su Thompson

In this issue
Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson

Managing, just barely
Fred Sampson

My learning assistant: question-asking and -answering in synthetic game environments
Sachin Patil, Kay Howell

New & upcoming titles
Gerard Torenvliet

Open source bicycles
Gary Marsden

Out of the video arcade, into the office: where computer games can lead productivity software
Jerrod Larson

Overcoming a common help design challenge: no access to users
Doris Holloway

Review of "Shape: Talking About Seeing and Doing by George Stiny"
Bernice Glenn

Taking usability practitioners to task
Chauncey E. Wilson

Taxonomies to tax the couch-potato's cortex
Aaron Marcus

Three challenges for design
Don Norman

Who you gonna call?
Fred Sampson

[Blank] my [blank]: mad libs for designers
Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson

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