Archive for January, 2008

Drafting scenarios and stories

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

This post discusses the following readings: Gruen, D., Rauch, T., Redpath, S., & Ruettinger, S. (2002). The use of stories in user experience design. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 14(3&4), 503-534.Head, A. J. (2003). Personas: setting the stage for building usable information sites. Online, 27(4), 14-21. <<In class, we wrote sample ...

Article critiques: scenarios, stories

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

This post discusses the following readings: Go, K., & Carroll, J.M. (2004). The blind men and the elephant: Views of scenario-based system design. interactions, 11(6), 44-53.Gruen, D., Rauch, T., Redpath, S., & Ruettinger, S. (2002). The use of stories in user experience design. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 14(3&4), 503-534.I thought ...

Keeping Found Things Found

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

A web site focused on collecting and managing personal information, from the U of Washington I-School, with some help from Msft. I haven't compared their publications list with our syllabus to see if there's any overlap. Keeping Found Things Found "The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people ...

How is it possible? More on email

Monday, January 28th, 2008

The readings that prompted these postings were: Lehikoinen, Juha, Antti Aaltonen, Pertti Huuskonen, and Ilkka Salminen. Personal Content Experience: Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age. Chichester, England: John Wiley, 2007. [48-51, 84-94, 127-157] Whittaker, Steve, and Candace Sidner. "Email Overload: Exploring Personal Information Management of Email." Paper presented at the Conference ...

Systemantics

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

I'm starting my third official semester as a graduate student but there are still a few nuts I haven't cracked yet. I'm starting to wonder if they're worth cracking or if I'm just worrying too much. What I've been doing Note-taking strategy. For both reading and classroom lectures, I still ...