Blogs

  • UX for the rest of us

    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…

  • The background foreground playground: LOTR and The Hobbit

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Sun, January 06, 2013 - 4:55:16

    After the first Lord of the Rings (LOTR) movie came out, Louis Menand wrote a review, probably in NYRB (the New York Review of Books), in which he mentioned that…

  • Design and interaction talk by Lab Rat

    Tek-Jin Nam Posted: Fri, January 04, 2013 - 10:47:58

    My name is Tek-Jin Nam. I am an associate professor in the Industrial Design Department at KAIST. KAIST is one of the top science and engineering universities in Korea. The…

  • Wrong about MOOCs?

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Wed, January 02, 2013 - 4:32:50

    In July, I was sceptical. "We have no idea where this is going. Let’s stomp on the accelerator pedal and hold it to the floor!" My summary of the online…

  • Communicating with young people suffering from stress

    Juan Hourcade Posted: Fri, December 21, 2012 - 2:28:21

    Part of the discussion in the days following the horrible massacre in Newtown, Connecticut has involved how to manage the behavior of young people who feel anxious or stressed. This…