This post discusses the following readings: Go, K., & Carroll, J.M. (2004). The blind men and the elephant: Views of scenario-based system design. interactions, 11(6), 44-53. Gruen, D., Rauch, T., Redpath, S., & Ruettinger, S. (2002). The use of stories in user experience design. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 14(3&4), 503-534. I thought the best …
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Keeping Found Things Found
A web site focused on collecting and managing personal information, from the U of Washington I-School, with some help from Msft. I haven’t compared their publications list with our syllabus to see if there’s any overlap. Keeping Found Things Found “The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the relatively …
Superman #141
Superman #141Superman #141
How is it possible? More on email
The readings that prompted these postings were: Lehikoinen, Juha, Antti Aaltonen, Pertti Huuskonen, and Ilkka Salminen. Personal Content Experience: Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age. Chichester, England: John Wiley, 2007. [48-51, 84-94, 127-157] Whittaker, Steve, and Candace Sidner. “Email Overload: Exploring Personal Information Management of Email.” Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors …
Fairfax City Public Library
For many moons I have been looking forward to the opening of a new library building in Fairfax. I’ve been going to the old location for eighteen years, so surely progress is a good thing? I noted: 1. The apex of the ceiling is now four or five times higher.2. The space for computers is …
Systemantics
I’m starting my third official semester as a graduate student but there are still a few nuts I haven’t cracked yet. I’m starting to wonder if they’re worth cracking or if I’m just worrying too much. What I’ve been doing Note-taking strategy. For both reading and classroom lectures, I still have (I think) a shockingly …
Ghostly Tales #80
Ghostly Tales #80Ghostly Tales #80
Apokalypse
“The Apocalypse, or Revelation to John, the last book of the Bible, is one of the most difficult to understand because it abounds in unfamiliar and extravagant symbolism, which at best appears unusual to the modern reader. Symbolic language, however, is one of the chief characteristics of apocalyptic literature, of… Apokalypse
More on email overload
Yet more reaction to this article: Whittaker, Steve, and Candace Sidner. “Email Overload: Exploring Personal Information Management of Email.” Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 13-18, 1996, 276-283. From a records management POV, I had these thoughts: People are so overwhelmed when they’re in the …
Email overload, content management
As verbose as I am in class, you should read my postings on the Blackboard discussion boards. Oh wait, you can’t. Oh wait, you can — if I re-post them here. It’s not as narcissistic and self-involved as it sounds, though it’s that, too. I spend goodly bits of time and brain energy writing my …
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