| The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) is a site conceived by Microsoft providing user interface Design Guidance and Toolkit controls that address a wide range of patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations worldwide. Microsoft has created it in order to allow a new generation of safer, more usable and compelling health applications to be quickly and easily created.
The MS CUI site is aimed at user interface designers, application developers and patient safety experts who want to find out more about the benefits of a standardized approach to user interface design. Kirsten Disse, who works at MS CUI as a user experience consultant, just alerted me to the launch of CUI’s Patient Journey Demonstrator, that she was responsible for. It is a technology demonstrator looking at the future of clinical software applications.
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10 May 2008
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3 May 2008
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A few weeks ago I attended the CHI conference in Florence, Italy.
I was only there for a day and a half, and this being my first CHI conference, I am not in a position to give it a solid review. One thing that stands out of course is that it has a strong academic angle, which can make some of the presentations and discussions quite irrelevant for practitioners such as me. On the other, there was a lot of emphasis on the term “user experience”, which came back in titles, abstracts, presentations and papers. Combing through the (Mac unfriendly) conference DVD, I found quite a few treasures, and I selected 40 papers out of a total of 556, that I will be presenting in ten separate posts, under the headings: emerging markets, mobile banking, mobility, product design, security, social applications, social context, strategic issues, sustainability, and usability. The conference is not set up in order to help you meet new people, and this is a real pity. You just tend to meet those you know already, or those whose presentations you attended. (Unless you are lucky enough to be a speaker of a well attended session, so everyone else knows you.) During CHI, I conducted interviews with Bill Buxton (Microsoft), Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo!) and Mike Kuniavsky (ThingM), on which I will report in the coming weeks. Also in the coming weeks I will publish reviews of the books: Sketching the User Experience by Bill Buxton and Keeping Found Things Found by William Jones. Because of this blog, and in particular a post of praise, I was part of a panel (others were Elizabeth Churchill, Richard Anderson and Jon Kolko) on the relaunched Interactions Magazine, now under the inspiring and volunteer (!) leadership of the latter two. Check out the magazine! |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on emerging markets related papers presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available) Re-placing faith: reconsidering the secular-religious use divide in the United States and Kenya [abstract] Asynchronous remote medical consultation for Ghana [abstract] A resource kit for participatory socio-technical design in rural Kenya [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on mobile banking related papers presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) From meiwaku to tokushita!: lessons for digital money design from Japan [abstract] Human-Currency Interaction: learning from virtual currency use in China [abstract] UbiPay: conducting everyday payments with Minimum User Involvement [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on mobility related papers presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) A diary study of mobile information needs [abstract] Accountabilities of presence: reframing location-based systems [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on product design related papers presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) Case study: using online communities to drive commercial product development [abstract] Future Craft: how digital media is transforming product design [abstract] “If you build it, they will come … if they can”: pitfalls of releasing the same product globally [abstract] What about a ‘local’ wrapper around an ‘universal’ core? [abstract] Studying paper use to inform the design of personal and portable technology [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on security related papers presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) Love and authentication [abstract] Human-in-the-loop: rethinking security in mobile and pervasive systems [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on papers related to social applications presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) Ambient social tv: drawing people into a shared experience [abstract] Results from deploying a participation incentive mechanism within the enterprise [abstract] Exploring the role of the reader in the activity of blogging [abstract] The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life [abstract] Healthcare in everyday life: designing healthcare services for daily life [abstract] International ethnographic observation of social networking sites [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on papers related to social context presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) Celebratory technology: new directions for food research in HCI [abstract] Designs on dignity: perceptions of technology among the homeless [abstract It’s on my other computer!: computing with multiple devices [abstract] It ’s Mine, Don’t Touch!: interactions at a large multi-touch display in a city centre [abstract] Cultural theory and real world design: Dystopian and Utopian Outcomes [abstract] Driving the family: empowering the family technology lead [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on papers on more strategic issues presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) Empathy and experience in HCI [abstract] Interactional empowerment [abstract] Healthy technology: a metaphor that pushed user experience to new strategic heights at Intel [abstract] User experience over time User experience at Google – focus on the user and all else will follow [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on sustainability related papers presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) A bright green perspective on sustainable choices [abstract] Breaking the disposable technology paradigm: opportunities for sustainable interaction design for mobile phones [abstract] Sustainable millennials: attitudes towards sustainability and the material effects of interactive technologies [abstract] Ecovillages, values, and information technology: balancing sustainability with daily life in 21st century America [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on usability related papers presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time) [abstract] Defending design decisions with usability evidence: a case study Using participants’ real data in usability testing: lessons learned [abstract] Revisiting usability’s three key principles [abstract] |
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2 May 2008
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From a corporate press release:
Marc Laperrouza (of LIFT) comments:
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1 May 2008
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The April issue of the International Journal of Design has recently been published.
It is the fourth issue of this peer-reviewed journal issued by the Taiwan-based Chinese Institute of Design (read more here).
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24 April 2008
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23 April 2008
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iTunes U is an area of iTunes that lets universities in the US share - for free! - audio and video from their lectures, talks and events. The contents are globally accessible.
By clicking on Power Search, you can easily limit the regular iTunes search to iTunes U. Of particular interest to the readers of this blog is Stanford University’s Human-Computer Interaction Seminar, consisting of no less than 36 lectures by people such as Bill Moggridge, Bill Buxton, Elizabeth Churchill, Paul Dourish and Donald Norman. |
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17 April 2008
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13 April 2008
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| All videos of the conferences at the Bruce Sterling curated Share Festival that recently took place in Turin, Italy, are now online.
Aside from Bruce Sterling, exhilarating discussants were Massimo Banzi, Julian Bleecker, Donald Norman and Marcos Novak, to name just a few. Manufacturing: From Digital to Digifab Manufacturing Cultural Projects Manufacturing the Streets Dramatic Manufacturing Manufacturing Intelligence Manufacturing Robots Manufacturing FIAT 500 A Manifesto for Networked Objects Manufacturing Digital Art Manufacturing Future Designs Manufacturing Consent From Land Art to Bioart Is Life Manufacturable? Two Architectures: Atoms and Bits Share Prize Ceremony |
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12 April 2008
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