Blogs
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The unsustainable model: The tug of war between LLM personalization and user privacy
Shuhan Sheng Posted: Thu, January 04, 2024 - 11:32:00
In the AI universe, we find ourselves balancing on the edge of a tightrope between groundbreaking promise and perilous pitfalls, especially with those LLM-based platforms we broadly label as “AI…
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Body x Materials @ CHI: Exploring the intersections of body and materiality in a full-day workshop
Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Bruna Petreca, Laia Turmo Vidal, Ricardo O'Nascimento, Aneesha Singh Posted: Wed, January 03, 2024 - 2:31:00
During the 2023 CHI conference, we ran a one-day workshop to consider the design space at the intersection of the body and materials [1]. The workshop gathered designers, makers, researchers,…
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Usability: The essential ingredient for sustainable world development
Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Amanda Davis, Zhengjie Liu, Deborah Bosley Posted: Tue, January 02, 2024 - 11:29:00
As we make interacting with technology more like interacting with human beings, it is important that we understand how people use technology.…That is why usability is so important. — Bill…
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Democratizing game authoring: A key to inclusive freedom of expression in the metaverse
Amir Reza Asadi Posted: Thu, November 16, 2023 - 2:03:00
As we approach the metaverse, a sociotechnical future where people consume huge amounts of information in 3D formats, the significance of game development tools, including both game-engine and digital-content-creation tools,…
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Psychological privacy: How perceptual publicity can support perceived publicity
Wee Kiat Lau, Lisa Valentina Eberhardt, Marian Sauter, Anke Huckauf Posted: Mon, October 23, 2023 - 10:45:00
Picture this: Sitting in his kitchen, young Tim chuckles at the recent misfortune of neighbors who fell prey to burglars. At the same time, he’s enthusiastically experimenting with a banking…
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Seven heuristics for identifying proper UX instruments and metrics
Maximilian Speicher Posted: Tue, September 19, 2023 - 11:09:00
In the two previous articles of this series, we have first learned that metrics such as conversion rate, average order value, or Net Promoter Score are not suitable to reliably…
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Toward a consensus on research transparency for HCI
Florian Echtler, Lonni Besançon, Jan Vornhagen, Chat Wacharamanotham Posted: Fri, August 25, 2023 - 11:15:00
During the past few years, the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented amount of research being conducted and published in a very short timeframe to successfully analyze SARS-COV-2, its…
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Toward a mindful designer: Mindfulness as an essential skill for interaction designers
Jia Shen Posted: Tue, August 22, 2023 - 1:07:00
As digital technology designers, our role has never been more crucial than it is now. Decades of technological and commercial advancements have brought computing from research labs to business offices,…
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Privacy and ethics concerns using UX research platforms
Michal Luria Posted: Wed, July 26, 2023 - 3:03:00
Remote user experience (UX) research is not a new phenomenon [1], but the pandemic has accelerated it, necessitating the adaptation of traditionally face-to-face methods to work remotely [2]. The past…
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AI superpowers and the human element: Implications for researchers
Rojin Vishkaie Posted: Thu, July 06, 2023 - 12:04:00
Does our future have researchers who are robots? Are computers going to become so smart that they can boss these researchers around? And, if robots and computers can accomplish everything,…
