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  • Why I lie to my kids

    William Gaver Posted: Wed, May 22, 2013 - 2:52:21

    When she was about five, I told my daughter Emmie about a girl named Priscilla who swallowed toothpaste instead of spitting it out after brushing. She did this every day,…

  • UX research vs. UX design

    Ashley Karr Posted: Tue, May 21, 2013 - 11:17:20

    Take away: We research to understand the world. We design to change the world. The user experience (UX) professional’s role in any design process exists along a continuum between research…

  • The HCI community, the medical community

    Jina Huh Posted: Mon, May 20, 2013 - 12:55:32

    In this blog post, I want to share, from the perspective of a junior researcher, some reflections on how I observed HCI work has been discussed by the medical community,…

  • CHI 2013 roundup

    Elizabeth Churchill Posted: Thu, May 16, 2013 - 3:28:34

    The 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (commonly known as just CHI) took place in Paris from April 27 to May 2, 2013. Many of you…

  • CHI grows up

    Aaron Marcus Posted: Thu, May 16, 2013 - 11:12:26

    CHI 2013 took place from April 27 through May 2 in Paris’s Palais des Congrès, not far from the Arc de Triomphe on the western edge of the city center.…

  • Design, CHI, richness of spirit

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Mon, May 13, 2013 - 12:19:11

    Since returning from Paris, I have been tapping away, writing about CHI, commenting on the papers, the panels, the oblique and direct epistemologies. But what keeps rising to the top…

  • Prototyping businesses: plan vs. play

    Tim Fife Posted: Fri, May 10, 2013 - 10:19:27

    I’ve recently come back from a two-day workshop on Lean StartUp, hosted by The Pollenizer in Sydney, where I got a crash course in how entrepreneurs take a sketchy idea…

  • What would it take to be inclusive?

    Jennifer Mankoff Posted: Tue, May 07, 2013 - 1:03:13

    It's been a while since I was asked to join the group of interactions bloggers. I guess I've been waiting for the right inspiration to strike. I've just attended CHI,…

  • What is user experience?

    Ashley Karr Posted: Mon, May 06, 2013 - 12:55:48

    Take away: User experience (UX) is a type of engineering and design that focuses on creating products and systems that work best for the intended user. Defining user I am…

  • Designing from the sixth sense

    Monica Granfield Posted: Thu, May 02, 2013 - 12:35:41

    This year’s CHI conference is "Changing Perspectives." It got me thinking about the perspective of design, and design by intuition in technology.Perspective is the state of one’s idea or views,…