Author Archives: Jim

Mobile Attachment – Causes and Consequences for Emotional Bonding with Mobile Phones by Alexander Meschtscherjakov 7 billion population, 6.8 billion mobile subscriptions psychology: attachment theory, extended self; consumer research and design: brand attachment, product attachment mobile attachment: cognitive and emotional … Continue reading →

Structuring the Space by Nathalie Henry Riche people often refer to information visualizations as maps; many visualizations use spatial metaphors; picked up on contour lines from topographical maps for data mental model: spatial structure + landmarks; do they help or … Continue reading →

Odin: Contextual Document Opinions on the Go by Joshua Hailpern Odin: mobile solution to get through hundreds and thousands of docs quickly; UrLs, Google News, upload zip, streams like RSS; finds most relevant, most aligned, most divergent; does an executive … Continue reading →

Communiplay: A Field Study of Public Display Mediaspace by Jorg Muller multiple interactive displays linked across varied public spaces; how will people interact with displays in public media spaces? key metric: conversion rate – percentage of people that start interacting; … Continue reading →

Visualizing Dynamic Networks with Matrix Cubes by Benjamin Bach dynamic networks: networks that change over time, eg social networks, regional brain signals, migration flows, messages between people and systems how can we help people understand changes over time? much research … Continue reading →

work with carriers and advertisers to enable micro payments for services and data collection via mobile devices, especially in emerging markets mobile phones are huge enablers in developing countries $24 for a low-cost android phone: 3G WiFi GPS touchscreen 1.35 … Continue reading →

Automatic Generation of Semantic Icon Encodings for Visualizations by Vidya Setlur examples of using icons for data points on visualizations why use icons? Represent semantics, easier to parse spatially and visually, better aesthetics, but takes time to find or create … Continue reading →

Mining Online Software Tutorials: Challenges and Open Problems by Adam Fourney tutorials are a rich resource for procedural informatio want to extract structured semantic data to identify timing, tasks, etc can automatically detect commands and interface elements, but nowhere near … Continue reading →

Karen Holtzblatt, InContext Design; Ilpo Koskinen, Aalto University; Janaki Kumar, SAP Labs; David Rondeau, InContext Design; John Zimmerman, Carnegie Mellon University Karen: we believe the methods need to change for today's world review Contextual Design briefly; worked for 25 years, … Continue reading →

Karen Holtzblatt, InContext Design; Ilpo Koskinen, Aalto University; Janaki Kumar, SAP Labs; David Rondeau, InContext Design; John Zimmerman, Carnegie Mellon University Karen: we believe the methods need to change for today's world review Contextual Design briefly; worked for 25 years, … Continue reading →