I often find myself thinking of cool things I could do to improve myself and be generally interesting. In most cases I end up not doing them or just doing a little bit. I justify my behaviour by claiming not to have enough time or that the circumstances are wrong. In my more self-reflective and [...]
I’ve turned off the plugin that automatically adds a daily digest of my twitter updates to my blog. I can’t imagine anyone feeling anything but relief about that decision.
There are three reasons why I decided to do this. The first is that (I think) it was reducing the chances of me feeling inclined to write [...]
I’ve just updated my research page.
There is now an “In Press” section of the page for all those publications that have been accepted but the actual publication date is a little vague. Previously I didn’t put these up because of some concern over publishing things on the web before the publication venue gets a chance. [...]
I’ve read a few more essays in “HCI Remixed” so here’s the update on links to the source material.
Essay Author
Essay
Essay Topic Materials
Wendy Ju
The Mouse, the Demo, and the Big Idea
D. Englebart, 1968: “The oNLine System (NLS) Demo”
Henry Lieberman
A Creative Programming Environment
D. C. Smith, 1977: “Pygmalion: A Creative Programming Environment”
Sara Bly
Fundamentals in HCI: Learning [...]
I’ve just started reading “HCI Remixed” which is a collection of short essays by respected members of the HCI research community about a HCI publication/demo/system that inspired and motivated them personally.
The essays are very short and more about the authors themselves than the work. This is as it should be. However, I am interested in [...]
Part of being a good citizen in the research community is volunteering to review submissions to conferences. I’ve just finished a large pile of reviews. A few conferences coincided and so over the last couple of weeks I’ve reviewed eleven papers - five from CSCW, five from CollabTech, and one from UbiComp.
For those non-research readers, [...]
Matthew kindly sent a list of papers published at CHI that were about multi-touch research. I reproduce the list here in case anyone is interested.*
Indirect mappings of multi-touch input using one and two hands
It’s Mine, Don’t Touch!: interactions at a large multi-touch display in a city centre
Investigating the effectiveness of tactile feedback for mobile touchscreens
Hd [...]
Over the last few weeks, Anastasia and I have been preparing a submission for the CSCW conference. Now we just have to wait for the acceptance/rejection notice, which is due in early July (so I’m trying not to hold my breath).
For those not in the research field, you should know that published papers mean a [...]
There’s this thing that happens when writing a conference submission.
You’ll spend weeks of intense work putting all your results and thoughts into some sort of coherent paper form then send it out to a small group of colleagues for review. Then, at least one of them will come back, saying, “Did you look at this [...]
I’ve been working on a particular paper for a while. Originally it was a short paper submission for the OzCHI 2007 conference. It was rejected from there - kind of a low point - with the feedback that there wasn’t any scientific contribution. My co-authors and I are taking the position that there is a [...]
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