Carter’s watching Night at the Museum, a mother’s day gift I opened this morning, and notices Dick Van Dyke.
Carter: Wow. Archie, this is Dick Van Dyke. He’s wearing a very clever disguise. If you close your eyes, you can tell it’s the same Dick Van Dyke that invented Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
It’s amazing how a [...]
On Aging
LineBuzz
Thanks to a recent snipperoo post, I discovered LineBuzz, an inline commenting widget. With some help, LineBuzz is now integrated with BlogSchmog. The strengths of this concept of contextual commenting include making discussion relevant, posts more potent, and as a means of content discovery.
Comicboarding
One of my favorite CHI 2007 papers was one on comicboarding, a participatory design technique that uses panels of comic book stories as a way to engage children in brainstorming. The presentation by Jason Li and Neeman Moraveji (Microsoft Research) was a creative mashup of several HCI activities. This is a great adaptation of design inquiry techniques that aims at being more inclusive in the process of participatory design.