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  • Positivism in design

    Ashley Karr Posted: Mon, August 12, 2013 - 11:43:00

    Take away: Applying basic tenets of Positive Psychology during design evaluations can help teams cooperate and be more productive. This means that evaluators must discuss the positive aspects of the…

  • What is your UX style?

    Monica Granfield Posted: Fri, August 09, 2013 - 8:13:29

    Having come out of traditional design training and then migrated into a field that is more conceptually than visually design oriented, for more than two decades I have experienced a…

  • Bias

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Tue, August 06, 2013 - 11:35:14

    The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree…

  • Banjos and discrete technologies

    Steve Benford Posted: Mon, August 05, 2013 - 3:39:05

    I begin this post with a confession. I play the banjo. There, it’s out in the open and I feel better already. Actually, I play the tenor banjo in Irish…

  • CHI 2013 HCI for Peace Ideathon summary

    Juan Hourcade Posted: Fri, August 02, 2013 - 2:56:52

    For the past three years, members of the human-computer interaction community interested in using computing technologies to promote peace and prevent conflict have been meeting as part of HCI for…

  • Trajectories into practice

    Steve Benford Posted: Tue, July 23, 2013 - 11:00:32

    I’m Steve Benford, professor of collaborative computing at the University of Nottingham’s Mixed Reality Laboratory. My research explores new interaction techniques and concepts for creative and cultural experiences. I characterise…

  • The human in HCI: What you can learn from the Bard (and others)

    Uday Gajendar Posted: Tue, July 16, 2013 - 4:32:37

    How does one account for the human within human-computer interaction? One approach historically embodied by the HCI field is firmly reductionist, a distillation of functional entities in which a human…

  • The UX ownership war is over … and we have lost!

    Daniel Rosenberg Posted: Tue, July 16, 2013 - 10:53:45

    In previous blogs and many interactions articles and columns over the years I have articulated my concerns over the UX profession’s general inability to penetrate to the core of business…

  • Number 9: Names, Facebook, and identity

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Thu, July 11, 2013 - 10:42:20

    Facebook recently informed me that my name is deborah.tatar.9. Oh. Really? I grew up in a sub-culture of America that believed in sending kids to sleep-away camps to get them…

  • When A/B testing gets an F

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Tue, July 02, 2013 - 11:33:18

    A relationship is like a shark, it has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. —Woody Allen,…