- ARCHIVE / HCI Design
- What’s a blog?
Boy, when I get untracked, I really get untracked. After helping BlogSchmog post (at least) once per day from late September through Christmas, I’ve had a difficult time getting my writing game on. Holidays … Bloomington Startup Weekend … a School of Informatics Unconference … Catch-up on semester classes … Spring Break trip to Georgia [...]
- Casualties of Technology
At about 12:30p Eastern, the family left Georgia and entered South Carolina. Nine hours later, we still hadn’t cleared. Garrison Keillor sang a song on the radio about the future, a fitting soundtrack to our love-hate relationship with technology—and the absence of it—as we tried to get out of the pastoral countryside of the Palmetto State.
- Twitter in Plain English
CommonCraft does it again. Twitter is deep enough that the LeFevers could do a couple follow-ups.
- Liveblog: Phoebe Sengers “Representation and Response”
Liveblogging today’s School of Informatics colloquium by Phoebe Sengers (Cornell), “Representation and Response.”
- Bloomington Startup Weekend is underway
I’m exhausted. I had to schedule a night of sleep before the three-day marathon at City Hall, and it was difficult to fall asleep. It was amazing to see the council chambers fill up. Not all of our hundred hoosiers made it through the front door, but we generated a bunch of ideas with merit. The one we chose deals with event search.
- Community Weekend reviews
It was a mixed bag of news this week on both the Bloomington Startup Weekend and CHI fronts, but the good far outweighed the bad. The sad news for my design team came in the form of mixed reviews on our own submission, one of just 40 international submissions by students willing to take on the wicked problem of designing for people experiencing homelessness. I include our three reviews with rebuttal analysis of each.
- IU sends Five to CHI … Again.
For the second consecutive year, it appears the IU School of Informatics will send five team to Florence, Italy to compete in the next round of the CHI Student Design Competition. Now in the fifth year of the event, IU has won the competition twice, placed in the top four six times, and sent a total of 19 teams to this major conference for human-computer interaction.