Jul 16
Great web app: Draw a symbol, search engine looks up the Latex-code. Very handy for my current thesis chapter with lots of equations.
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
Thanks@nata
Archive for the ‘phd’ Category
Aug 25
Today the first book on evaluating interactive products with children is out. This afternoon it will be presented here in Eindhoven. Panos Markopoulos and Janet Read will give a presentation, introduced by our chief of UCE: Berry Eggen.
Another nice event this Friday: PostGrad Day. All PostGrads (PhD’s and USI’s) from Human Technology Interaction and Industrial Design will present their research from 12-16h in the Auditorium at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
update: the poster I presented is now added to the publications and presentation page.
Apr 14
Great overview of design tools. Nice web-design as well.
(have to fix my pic-upload system, broke since wordpress 2.5. Will do one of these days.)
————————–
update: fixed it. The .htaccess-solution did the trick.
Apr 01
Thanks to a generous sponsor, I suddenly find myself putting my things together for a trip CHI2008! And it’s not even an April Fool’s Joke, thanks a lot!
A great chance to meet the CHICI group again, and hopefully to talk to the kiddesign group of Allison Druin from the university of Maryland. Will attend the kid’s stuff session on monday and two courses: “beyond anecdotes” and “giving children a voice in the design of technology”.
Feb 25
The reviewers were positive! We scored 3 times 4 out of 5 points on “Overall Rating”!
Now it’s time to process the comments and prepare for the conference. Chicago, here we come!
Jan 22
UX, UX, it’s all about User Experience. But what about the Designer’s experience of the User’s Designs?
We asked 15 design experts to rate 40 design solutions of children on creativity. The results showed statistically significant differences between generating design solutions through brainstorming and through a prototyping session.
Submitted an article on these results, together with my intern Binh Thang, on the designer’s experiences with user generated designs to IDC2008. By February 25 we will know whether the article is accepted.
Jan 14
The number of graduate women is still growing. Among young PhD’s, (under 35) half of them is a woman, while of all graduated PhD’s only 30% is female.
Well, good for them. For me, this article is relevant in a totally different way:
90% of all PhD’s are employed full time after graduating, and, more importantly, I am still in the “young” group!
Hooray.
Dec 19
Every now and then the debate on “which skills make the best designer” fires up again. At the far ends there are two opinions:
- Practitioners claim to be the best designers because their output is most visible and tangible. What can researchers show after all?
- Researchers claim to be the best designers, because their output gives the most validated design directions, after which “only” implementation of these ideas is required. What challenge is there in such a job?
An interesting article by Anthony Colfelt puts it all in perspective.
I must say I was happily surprised by the emphasis he puts on research skills in designing the User Experience:
Research is interwoven into all user experience roles – the inspiration and validation of ideas and designs greatly enhances the chance of success in meeting your design objectives.
Research skills punctuate the UX professionals’ work agenda.
Read for yourself!
Nov 06
Happy to announce my paper on my early work is accepted at CARS in Preston. Hopefully we can work out a journal paper with the participants…
Hence I will be in Preston next week!
As soon as I received and processed the reviews, I will publish the paper here.
–update: the workshop was great, but the review process was rather “informal”. Hence I will publish the paper here as a white paper. Next year I will try to get the contents of the paper published in a journal.
Jun 03
This week I will be in Aalborg (with Esther) at the conference on Interaction Design and Children. I have 2 accepted papers there!
The most important one is a long paper on my last experiment on comparing Early Design methods. (more…)