Good morning/afternoon/evening or whatever it is. Just woke up from a three hour "nap" after a 17 hour drive back from Boston interrupted by a stop at Niagara Falls and the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, home of the "original" buffalo chicken wing so the trip was actually 23...

PANELISTS:Richard I. Anderson, Riander, USAKillian Evers, PayPal, USAJim E. Nieters, Yahoo!, Inc., USALaurie Pattison, Oracle Corporation, USACraig Peters, Awasu Design, USAA common question asked of successful User eXperience (UX) leaders is what “one thing” they needed...

The first presentation was very interesting, insightful and well presented. I am definitely going to follow up with this paper and visit his websites to see what is going on. Several ideas as to how I might be able to investigate this further. Would like to see what could...

The last three pictures were taken by Jon Kolko. The first one is your obligatory press release shot. The last two were advance shots for all contingent outcomes. You can ignore the first of those two now!!!!!!!!!! (download...

Wow, what a day. Actually, it started last night! Joe, Dane and I went to find an acceptable cutting tool to trim our poster. You would have thought we were getting ready to perform open heart surgery. There has never in history been so much discussion about the pros...

Judith S. Olson - UC Irvine[these notes are rougher than I usually take - she was moving at a pretty fast clip. I tried to clean them up and fill in some gaps but this will have to suffice.]Showed a picture of her presenting at CHI 86 with an overhead projector - it was...

Last night James, Binaebi, Lynn, Heiko, Emily, Lorelei and I went on an excursion to find a good Sushi restaurant. We had the name of a place and went to find it but it wasn't where we thought it would be. Fortunately, on my way back from Faneuil Hall Marketplace I went...

I had the opportunity to sneak into the Doctoral Consortium to watch Kevin's presentation. It was enlightening to see how Kevin's research "target" has continued to evolve and morph through a process of narrowing and widening. Personally, it really caused me to reflect...

Presentation from Wayne Gray, RPIProcedures we use to accomplish tasks that are important but not optimal. Use cattle roping example - horse and rider integrated into iceberg idea to lay foundation for usability versus functionality leading to a paradox of the active...