Category Archives: Musings

Emotional design and social interfaces

Earlier today, I watched Objectified, a great documentary about industrial design.  It reminded me of how permanently-built and unsustainable many material things are, and how easy it is for us to form emotional attachments to objects with personal stories that we then are reluctant to part with.  At the same time, I was thinking about different [...]
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HCI group on Google Wave

For those of you who have Google Wave and are involved in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, come say hi at the Wave HCI Group! If that link didn’t work, search for “with:public hci” click on “Wave HCI Group!” and introduce yourself You can also use “with:public” and any other keyword/s to find public waves [...]
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Updates + new design very soon

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been almost half a year since I last updated! So much to catch up on. Summer: I worked with Orit Shaer on a Microsoft Surface project. Along with Catherine Grevet, Sarah Elfenbein, and Megan Strait, we created G-Nome Surfer, a genome browser for biology researchers. We interviewed many biologists and [...]
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Twitter Wordle

I came across Ankit Ahuja’s blog today and saw his Twitter Wordle blog post. For those of you who don’t know, Wordle is a simple online application that lets you create word clouds from text files or websites, emphasizing words that are used more often. I wanted to make my own but couldn’t find the [...]
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Social media explosion!

As I write this blog post, my hands twitch in frustration with old systems and excitement for some new changes.  These last few days I’ve been getting a little more into Twitter, following and reading a lot of posts and making little progress doing everything else I’m supposed to. As my panic level rises in [...]
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