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You Can Always Start Designing
Over the past few days, I have heard a few students and colleagues say a variation of the following: I don’t know enough to start designing yet. I want to challenge this idea. I don’t think that there is some threshold of knowledge that must be passed before one can start designing. You can always…
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Image-based Reference Management
Here are some true statements. (1) Some of my colleagues share paper copies of interesting, relevant research with me. (2) I find new literature on devices that aren’t mine. (3) Manual entry of new literature is sort of a pain on a mobile device. I want to be able to quickly add relevant literature to…
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Theory Practice Workshop
Today was the deadline for CHI2019 workshop submissions. We submitted a proposal to host a workshop about the theory-practice discourse in HCI, and, as part of the writing process, we ginned up a website (here) and a Mendeley group (here) for communicating and sharing resources both amongst participants and with the public. Fingers crossed for…
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Adobe Spark
This is my first time experimenting with Adobe Spark, and I foresee making lots of one-minute explainer videos for my spring semester human-centered design course.
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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 then you’re doing it wrong.…
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Industry-Academic Engagement
For the past few years I’ve been interested in what I have observed, even in my short career, to be a growing influence of industry in academia. If they’re not already the norm, then at least industry-academic collaborations are becoming more common. I don’t think this is necessarily a good thing but it’s also not…
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DRS2018 Best Paper Award
Download/read the paper here.