A quick preview of Don Norman’s next work “Design of Future Things”, looks intriguing in the 1st chapter itself. He discusses the idiom of interaction between human and smart systems that are going to have a lot of work delegated to, in the years to come.
His unique insights about human behavioral dispositions with respect to [...]
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Two Monologues Do not Make a Dialogue: Preview of Norman’s “Design of Future Things”
Posted in Book Review, Design Theory, Design method, Interaction Design, Pervasive systems, Philosophy, User Experience, design, tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, design, Design of Future Things, Don Norman, Don norman book, HCI, Human, Human Computer Interaction, Human Machine Interaction, Intelligent Systems, Interaction, Robot, Smart, Systems on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unbundling for innovation: An Essay by Phil Agre, UCLA
Posted in Design Theory, Design method, Innovation, Mobile Computing, tagged boom, bust, cycles, Deconstruction, design, design for innovation, disruptive, Innovation, market, perception on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few years back I came across a very interesting article by Phil Agre , Associate Professor of Information Studies at UCLA. I liked that article so much that I kept in my mail box for about 6 years until I discovered it a few days ago.
He talked about a very interesting anti establishment approach [...]
From ‘Instrumental’ to ‘Experiential’: Evolutions in Human Centered System Design
Posted in Book Review, CSCW, Design Theory, Design method, HCI, tagged User Experience, Emotional Design, Developments in Usability, Affective, Expiriential, Human Centered Computing on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists would argue that ‘User Experience’ is relatively a new term and definitely a buzzword. It is an attempt to re-package the old technique with a new age gimmick. The academic community has been engaged with this issue for some time now. Some interesting discussions in this context has been posted [...]
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I have been involved, as a user experience researcher with many global design projects by Fortune 100 corporations including HP Labs Asia, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft Research and Intel Research; and academic bodies such as Media Lab Asia (Media Lab MIT), Institute of Design,IIT Chicago and University of Washington. Email me at kaushik.t.ghosh[at]gmail.com
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