Search Solutions 2007

I attended Search Solutions 2007 in the BCS London branch, not far from the cool Convent Garden ‘piazza’. My interest in the user experience of search and information retrieval services is constantly increasing.
In 2006 I started doing a review of groupware and knowledge management software leveraging on community based approaches. Search, filtering and sharing of electronic resources in small and large communities of practice (a`la Wenger) could be heavily influenced by the appearance of folksonomies, corporate blogs, wikis and other shared repositories [...]

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Windows and cash machines

Today I had the exciting experience of seeing a windows installation on a Barclays cash machine… maybe funny for some, but from a user experience point of view it is not exactly what I would like a don’t-make-me-wait customer to see..

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New Year, new life

After the end of my research contract in October, I realised that there were plenty of opportunities around me (I live in London) and I decided to turn back to User Centred Design (UCD) consultancy.
I am not a newcomer in UCD and I have a clear view of how the field of web usability (and [...]

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Back to the NordiCHI - the ‘06 edition

It is difficult to summarise the experience I had this year at the NordiCHI06, but I think the underlying theme was the challenge represented by emergent uses of constellations of technologies, that go beyond the capabilities of a UCD approach, in the way we are used to think about it. This underlying theme was touched [...]

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Ethnography in the design process

A couple of weeks ago I attended to an UPA meeting in Cambridge about how to use ethnographic practices (EPs) for driving the design process from Louise Ferguson, who is also UK-UPA vice president.

It was interesting to see how EPs are being used in practice. I was really interested in EP for design and I [...]

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Impact factor of HCI journals

I was looking for some sources of Science Citation Index impact factor, and I found the following two resources:
http://del.icio.us/giorgio.venturi/impact+factor
It seems that the most important journal in the HCI arena is Human-Computer Interaction, followed by:

User Modeling And User-Adapted Interaction
Interacting With Computers
International Journal Of Human-Computer Studies

I also found a very interesting article on the evolution of the [...]

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