Blogs
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Canyonlands
Jonathan Grudin Posted: Fri, August 23, 2013 - 11:37:08
The Colorado Plateau. 130,000 square miles (337,000 square kilometers) of high desert and scattered forests in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. Home to 10 National Parks, including the Grand…
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Interacting under canvas
Steve Benford Posted: Mon, August 19, 2013 - 12:46:45
I’m just back from a short camping trip and reflecting on how exciting it is to live under canvas. There is a visceral thrill to being in a tent as…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…