At What Cost Pervasive?: IBM Systems Journal Article by D. C. Dryer

With the advent of pervasive systems, computers are becoming a larger part of our social lives than ever before. Depending on the design of these systems, they may either promote or inhibit social relationships. We consider four kinds of social relationships: a relationship with the system, system-mediated collaborative relationships, relationships with a community, and interpersonal [...]

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From ‘Instrumental’ to ‘Experiential’: Evolutions in Human Centered System Design

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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Web Innovation 2007 conference in Bangalore

Planning to visit this conference in Bangalore. It sounds interesting and may be first of it’s kind in India.
WEB INNOVATION 2007 will be the forum for Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Entrepreneurs, Enterprise, VCs, Marketing Specialists, Strategists, Consultants and others to understand the WEB 2.0 tools, trends and technologies better in order to harness endless business [...]

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SOA What about the Users!!: Issues in Enterprize Data Management

As architects of the enterprise data management suites spend a lot of energy talking about concepts and frameworks such as SOA, EDA, MDA, and SCA. In times of increasing complexity and with a desire to get projects completed on time and within budget, sometimes the most important part of any architecture is forgotten – the [...]

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Self Help Technologies – Bane or Boon!!

Today’s demanding business environments are asking for more….more benefits to the customers, more intelligence from mining knowledge repositories, more choices appearing in the custom search result. And the so-called ‘expert systems’ are trying to do just that. Decoding complex user intentions into readable machine language and serving up more and more relevant information. Programs are [...]

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‘Richard Coyne’ defines philosophy of ‘Experience’ and ‘Design of Technology’

This was orginally posted in my other blog, but I though this would be more appropriate here.Recently I found this book review

Coyne, Richard, Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age.
This book examines the design of computer systems from the perspective of several areas of postmodern philosophy. Coyne seeks to investigate and illuminate the [...]

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Social applications on Web 3.0: It’s not just the smart web also ‘leveraged participation’!!!

I recently came across this quote: “Dial tone is a fabulous metaphor for one of the key principles of Web 2.0, which I’ve called “the architecture of participation,” but which might also simply be described as the design of systems that leverage customer self-service…” – Chris Shiflett
It means something very simple yet very fundamental about [...]

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