Blogs

  • Ai Weiwei and trust in the system 〈The background- foreground playground〉

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Wed, January 23, 2013 - 2:34:25

    Ai Weiwei has his first U.S. show at the Hirshhorn Gallery in D.C. It is a big retrospective, with many rooms, many galleries, many pieces, many different media, and many…

  • Embodied games from NYU ITP

    Phoenix Perry Posted: Fri, January 18, 2013 - 2:53:17

    At NYU ITP in fall of 2012, I created and taught a class focused on embodied play. We explored this question: “How can interactive design create powerful experiences by tapping…

  • Criticism and HCI

    Jeffrey Bardzell Posted: Thu, January 17, 2013 - 11:40:55

    The turn toward design and humanistic thinking in the last decade of HCI reflects a practical need: to design interactions used in our everyday lives, from the workplace to the…

  • On the question of human in HCI

    Elizabeth Churchill Posted: Wed, January 16, 2013 - 11:43:23

    WOW! I am so honored and so happy to be part of this amazing blogging lineup for interactions magazine. As some of you may know, I have been writing a…

  • UX for the rest of us

    Joe Sokohl Posted: Tue, January 15, 2013 - 4:12:13

    To say that I'm humbled to have the opportunity to blog for interactions would be a gross understatement, for it's a magazine instrumental in my move from technical communications to…

  • Building technology

    Jonathan Bean Posted: Tue, January 15, 2013 - 11:15:54

    Photo by Robert S. Donovan Lately, I've been in the trenches: hip-deep in a home renovation project. As I've been swinging a hammer on evenings and weekends, I've been struck…

  • Why ‘bwords will suddenly reappear every time we are here

    Gilbert Cockton Posted: Mon, January 14, 2013 - 3:10:22

    Echoing the artist René Magritte’s "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe"), this is not a (we)blog. It's (we)bwords. It won’t log anything. There will be no…

  • #2 Temporal interactables—toward interaction dance design

    Mikael Wiberg Posted: Mon, January 14, 2013 - 10:58:58

    Ever since the days of Einstein (1879-1955) space and time, or spatiality and temporality, has served as a categorical, yet integrated, theoretical framework for sense-making and as a point of…

  • HCI, minus the C

    Tim Fife Posted: Tue, January 08, 2013 - 4:59:34

    Seeing as how everyone else is starting with an introduction, I figure I might as well explain what a guy like me is doing in a place like this (spoiler:…

  • Design predictions for 2013

    Uday Gajendar Posted: Tue, January 08, 2013 - 12:03:36

    Well, folks, it's that time of the year again, when we peruse the Interwebs and come across list, after list, after list (sigh!), of predictions for what's ahead in the…