The last week I received the notification of acceptance for the two papers we worked on so hard in the spring. The first one was submitted to Ubicomp and it’s about the Rabbit a fantastic project where I have been doing hardware, software, interaction techniques, UI design, etc. In this paper I collaborated with Aurelien…
One day before starting my enrollment as a PhD student I was called for a project meeting at Aarhus where I learnt what my project was going to be about: “Design a good user interface for using the new grid technology and displaying the large amount of data in a simple manner. In addition, the…
The PhoneVortex is a little project that came to me during a coffee break and I couldn’t help but implement it. The basic idea is that by using a tabletop you can have a much bigger UI for your phone.
A phenomenological perspective on interaction (like Heidegger’s or Merleau-Ponty’s) describes it as a loop, where the interaction is followed by feedback, and this one triggers refletion that supports the understanding of the interaction and thereby of the system. This new understanding iteratively shapes the following interactions with the system, leading to the formation of mental models about the systems’…
Ubiquitous computing technologies, according to Weiser’s vision, fade in the background of user’s attention. This has been discussed as invisibility, and the discussion continues on whether this invisibility is physical, as when sensors are hidden or embedded in everyday products, or psychological, as when the engagement of the user with the technology is such that…
TagCloud from my thesis proposal Latex source!
This year at CHI 2010, there was a very interesting paper+panel about infrastructures in HCI research called “The Infrastructure Problem in HCI“. The paper identifies different types of user experience difficulties caused by underlying infrastructures. The central conclusion of the paper was a call for the HCI community to become more involve in creating technical…
