UIE’s Jared M. Spool has recently had the opportunity to speak with Professor Barry Schwartz about his research on how people make choices, his book The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less and as a lead up to the User Interface 11 Conference.
A podcast of the interview can also be found on the Brain Sparks blog.
Last month my sister visited from Australia, and we had the opportunity to head over to Italy for the first time.
It was amazing, this 360 degree stitched photo is from a village in the heart of Tuscani a few hours drive from Parma. :) A larger version can also be found in my Flickr site.
Following my previous post on the OZ-IA conference in Sydney next month, the conference programme has now been announced with some exciting practical sessions.
Eric Scheid forwared me an e-mail with details of the conference back home in Sydney. :)
I came across this interesting article the other day, whilst doing a little research at work on Social Networking.
The paper titled, Inside Social Network Analysis, is a technical report from October 1995 by IBM, Kate Ehrlich, Inga Carboni on Collaboration, Social networks, SNA, knowledge management, organizations, and UCINet.
There is always something amazing visiting new places in Europe. Cinque Terre in Italy, is one place you completely fall in love with! :)
ENGAGE! the 20th BCS HCI Group conference will be held on the 11-15 September 2006 at Queen Mary, University of London.
Engage and be engaged in an exciting conference in London’s East End. For the first time, the HCI conference is engaging with six core themes. These themes capture some of the established favourite ideas in the community as well as suggest new collaborations and approaches.
Eric Scheid forwarded me an email on the forthcoming OZ-IA conference in Sydney later this year. :) It’s great to hear this conference is happening back home!
I remember (while living & working in Sydney a few years ago) there seemed to be a funny feeling inside of you that felt we (us Aussies) were a little behind everything happening in North America & Europe. Although this was more a perception thing than anything else, in reality, our thinking and problem solving skills dealt with a different market, region and cultures.
There are some brilliant and incredibly smart people back home! It’s fantastic to see an IA conference like this in Sydney. and OZ. It should be awesome!
Hal Shubin has posted a summary on the ACM CHI-WEB forum about 3 different types of Breadcrumbs,
I’ve been reading a lot recently about persuasion and captology with recent projects that I was compelled to look at possible patterns from tags within posts here on reloade.
I created the above tag cloud (or weighted list) to test out a few things.
Although it’s not finished, it showed me that my most blogged topics appears to be within Design, Interaction & Usability. :)
Papers presented at the NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005, MMUI 2005, Sydney, Australia.
The 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer & Cognitive Science is awarded to Donald Norman for the development of the field of user-centered design, which utilizes our understanding of how people think to develop technologies designed to be easily usable.
Donald Norman believes that everyday things need not wreak havoc in our lives. Instead, he likes things that make us smile, things that we can use gracefully the very first time. His goal is to make the interplay between science and application extremely productive, with machines designed so well we do not think about them as machines.
I was revisiting some archived links of mine and I noticed that the Design Observer had been redesigned. It’s a nice read :)
Paul Love from work forwarded this great blog post by Seth Godin on his experiences from Eye Tracking.
I think websurfing is a hunting activity. The eye is looking for anamolies, for things that don’t belong. (That might be why the word anomaly, spelled wrong in the previous sentence, got your focus).
Once our peripheral vision confirms that something is familiar, we can ignore it and just worry about the new stuff. Squidoo is stuffed with new stuff (nearly all our visitors are first-time visitors) and so, for example, there’s almost no focus on our Google AdWords. That’s because they’re familiar.
