By Giorgio Venturi, on February 10th, 2007
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 . . . → Read More: New Year, new life
By Giorgio Venturi, on October 17th, 2006
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 . . . → Read More: Back to the NordiCHI – the ‘06 edition
By Giorgio Venturi, on May 22nd, 2006
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 employed . . . → Read More: Ethnography in the design process
By Giorgio Venturi, on February 20th, 2006
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 . . . → Read More: Impact factor of HCI journals