Category: research

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  From Bibliographies to Iconographies

  Research through Design (RtD) can be influenced by written text (academic papers) and visual content (images of designs, photos, paintings). So, why not account for the latter in reference lists? Communicating RtD publications could mix bibliographies with iconographies, which would give image-based influences their due credit. Some sketch-proposals (made w/Adobe…

  October 18, 2018
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  Towards Good Collaboration

  This is a list of rules for collaboration from an expert on what doesn’t work: Be compassionate. If you’re in a design critique, for example, then you ought to be both critical and encouraging. Good critique should be encouraging. If you’re making someone less excited to work on their project…

  August 7, 2018
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  DRS2018 Best Paper Award

  Download/read the paper here.

  July 13, 2018
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  a short reflection on writing and failure

  there’s this line in a song that goes something like, “please don’t confront me with my failures. i have not forgotten them.” (Nico – These Days) something motivated me to revisit some writing i did in the earlier days of my studies in Bloomington, and i really didn’t like what…

  July 13, 2018
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  CHI2018

  Looking forward to CHI2018 in Montreal, QC, Canada! This year I am humbled to be first author on one full paper and a contributing author on a second full paper. Two full papers! Huzzah! The first author paper examines the concept of the theory-practice gap as a generative metaphor. Here…

  December 17, 2017
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  Theory Use has not been framed as an HCI Problem

  Theory in HCI research appears to be of interest to a number of researchers working in the field. Theory use, which refers to the different roles or functions theory may play in scholarly research or publishing, is one way of exploring the topic, but, in my view, neither topic has…

  December 5, 2017
• design design research HCI HCI/d Human-Computer Interaction Informatics research science scientific method Uncategorized

  Rudders

  Research has the potential to move in many different directions. There are constraints, sure. But regardless of where one starts, multiple paths reveal themselves at each step. Choosing a path is crucial for making progress. Moreover, revisiting and refining the intentions motivating one’s travels down a particular path is important.…

  December 5, 2017
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  New Citation Analysis Journal Pub

  Great news! We sent the final author proof of our article Schön’s Intellectual Legacy: A Citation Analysis of DRS Publications (2010-2016) back to the copyeditors for publication at Design Studies, which is one of the premier journals in the design field. The article should be online within a week or…

  December 4, 2017
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  Community Data & Water Quality

  Most of my blog entries are announcements of publications or generic thought pieces about topics of interest. One thing I’d like to do differently going forward is keeping track of current research projects here at Penn State University’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction (C4HCI) as way of providing some insight and…

  December 4, 2017
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  Sharing Ideas and Failing Up

  If I had to identify one thing I do well in the classroom, it’s this: I create an environment where it’s the norm to take risks, fail, and explore half-baked ideas. My guess is that I model all three of these things. I fail up pretty much all the time,…

  July 8, 2017