Category: science

• ACM design design research HCI hci research Human-Computer Interaction knowledge production knowledge tools research science SIGCHI theory-practice gap

  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
• design design research HCI HCI/d Human-Computer Interaction knowledge production knowledge tools research science scientific method theory theory building theory development

  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
• design design research HCI hci research research science Uncategorized

  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
• HCI hci research knowledge production knowledge tools peer review philosophy of science quality control science scientific method

  the future of hci research

  My PhD advisor, Erik Stolterman, recently penned a blog post called hci research and the problems with the scientific method. It’s a good post and you should read it. It was motivated by a New Yorker article written a few years ago about the ‘decline effect’ in science, which refers to…

  June 26, 2015
• design design research design thinking HCI HCI/d Interaction Design philosophy philosophy of science science theory writing

  Summer Research Projects

  The academic year is over, and after having taken a few days off, today is the day I launch into several really exciting and interesting projects. Following are summaries of each major project. Hopefully, writing about each of them on the blog throughout the summer will provide (1) a modicum…

  May 12, 2015
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  Knowledge Contributions | Discourse Analysis

  Borrowing from a personal email exchange, in my final paper I’d like to look at “how publications in a journal like Nature talk about their knowledge contributions and how publications in a journal like Design Studies talk about their knowledge contributions.” The interest stems from a parallel research project I’m doing…

  February 16, 2015
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  European Academy of Design

  I’m really excited to have the opportunity to travel to Paris this coming April to present a paper written with Erik Stolterman at the 2015 EAD conference. Our paper is part of the design theory / design philosophy track, which you can read more about here. The paper abstract follows: This…

  February 7, 2015