Category: Human-Computer Interaction

• HCI Human-Computer Interaction Interaction Design User experience UX

  Is Clarity the Path to Enlightenment?

  While revisiting the notes I jotted down when I read Buxton‘s Sketching User Experiences I stumbled across this line of text: Clarity is Not Always the Path to Enlightenment It’s the chapter heading for a few pages that describe the ambiguous nature of sketching in design. I especially love this idea:…

  November 17, 2012
• HCI Human-Computer Interaction interaction design Interaction Design

  Growth as a Designer

  **reblog…I wrote this entry as part of a reflective journal in my first-semester graduate interaction design class at Indiana University‘s SOIC** Bill Moggridge’s book Designing Interactions was waiting on my desk when I got home tonight. After taking care of a few lingering project 4 tasks from the day — and after…

  November 6, 2012
• HCI Human-Computer Interaction interaction design Interaction Design

  HCI Study Journal

  Last week brought with it a slew of activities: project submissions, presentations, and exams. The weeks in this program end soon after they begin. It’s wonderful. Our third design project for the semester centers on time, and I find this apt because  — even before the design brief was released…

  October 3, 2012
• HCI Human-Computer Interaction interaction design Interaction Design Uncategorized virtual worlds

  What do designers do?

  One of the tasks in my introductory design class is a weekly reflective journal. I got in the habit of keeping a study journal over the summer, and I think that this reflective journal is akin to a study journal. It’s more formal, though. And so I find myself approaching…

  September 17, 2012
• e-learning educational multimedia HCI Human-Computer Interaction Interaction Design learning objectives

  How and Why I Chose this HCI Graduate Program

  The third day of graduate orientation at the IU School of Informatics and Computing is winding down. The  day’s events peaked around 5pm with…course registration! It’s official. I’m enrolled. As the question has come up numerous times over the last few days, I thought I’d take a stab at articulating…

  August 15, 2012
• e-learning education educational multimedia HCI Human-Computer Interaction Instructional Technology knowledge tools

  HCI and the Future of Education

  In Being Human: Human-computer Interaction in the Year 2020, Harper, Rodden, Rogers, and Sellen remind us that, “With the uptake of calculators, educationalists became concerned that students’ ability to perform mental arithmetic were disappearing.” Then, they ask, “In 2020, what other kinds of basic skills might go?” Could reading be…

  August 12, 2012