UIST 2017 highlights
Here’s some personal highlights of this year’s ACM UIST (User Interface Software & Technology) conference, which took place in Quebec, Canada — just a few days ago. Continue reading
Here’s some personal highlights of this year’s ACM UIST (User Interface Software & Technology) conference, which took place in Quebec, Canada — just a few days ago. Continue reading
The UIST student innovation contest (aka the “SIC”) is one of those rare moments in a student’s life: a chance to present work at the heart of one of the top venues in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). In fact, UIST (i.e., ACM’s conference for User Interface Software and Technology) is often acclaimed as the top conference for those driven by hardware / software novelty, mad inventors of the HCI kind, and the likes.
So if you are a student interested in HCI and never had a chance to visit one of the main conferences, here’s your chance; because the UIST SIC is not only a place to meet some of your favorite researchers while they try out your demo, it is also a remarkable conference to learn about the bleeding edge of the field, a financially supported opportunity for those teams that have less support by applying the UIST SIC travel grants,` a chance to get some fabulous prizes — there’s 3K USD for the winning teams but also participation awards — last but not least, it is your chance to get in touch with some novel hardware: electrical muscle stimulation:
In the last months, I conducted a few usability studies and upon reflecting on these I decided to share my experience as it might be helpful to anyone starting on usability. This article attemps at summarizing my experience and thoughts on usability experiments.
When trying to start a usability study or experiment, the practitioner or researcher must answer some initial questions about their future work.
Regarding your research, in general, the most important question to answer is “What is my motivation or why I am doing it?”. In a few words, as a researcher, you must not only formulate your research question but also, its answer.
Research methods are here to help you create and solve a new question on usability, user experience and also, on human-computer interaction.
A former colleague, a talented and accomplished user experience professional, recently wrote excitedly of her intension to attend an upcoming UX conference. It was a bit of a throwaway line, likely written in haste, but made in a public forum for consumption by contemporaries and customers alike. Her meaning was clear; the cringe from at least some in her audience equally so. Continue reading