Free educational materials by world-class authors on interaction-design.org
Interaction-design.org is a highly successful community dedicated to giving free access to world-class educational materials. The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction is at the core of their activities and the most recent chapter is on the topic End-User Development that is abou [...]
Curated by MEDEA – An Academic News Service on Media, Communication and Design
Curated by MEDEA is a news service that targets academics from media & communication studies and interaction design, two disciplines that have started to influence each other. The aim is to make visible to researchers from these disciplines what goes on in the intersection of the [...]
Keeping up with the latest research – how to set up alerts using Google Scholar
Google Scholar is one of the easiest tools to use for you who are interested in keeping up with the latest research in any given subject field. Google Scholar is, for sure, not all-encompassing and not all articles are available for free, but if you find an article you want access to [...]
“Design is my tool and this is the way I fight” – the story of an Iranian activist
X is a designer/researcher. His work focuses on how to help social movements to develop practices for spreading news and information in ways that do not rely on the Internet as main platform of communication, but rather on using a combination of analogue and digital technologies. He c [...]
The Tales of Things Project: Attaching Social Memories to Everyday Things
A very simple deployment of the Internet of Things has been developed by researchers from several universities in the UK. Their project is called Tales of Things and Electronic Memory which is about linking everyday objects to their corresponding social memories and social stories. Ch [...]
Sustainable Interactions: Changing User Behaviours with Calm Technology
[STUDENT WORKS] Silvia Venditti just graduated from the Interaction Design Masters Programme at K3, Malmö University. Her thesis “Shared Resources, Calm Applicances: Sustainable Interaction and Care in Housing Context” describes and analyzes the use of calm technology fee [...]
Intelligent Cities: It’s all about Analytics and Collaboration
More than half the population on Earth now lives in cities. This poses a great threat to communal resources like water and waste management, but also gives opportunities: people living more densely means that there are energy savings to be made. The notion of “smart cities” [...]
The Arduino Documentary – Making Prototyping Easy
Arduino is an acclaimed open-source microcontroller that was recently mentioned at the Google I/O conference where they announced that the Android development team has created a toolkit that allows developers and designers to build the future of the Internet of Things. David Cuartiell [...]
On Peer-Reviewing: Purpose, Future and Flaws
Within academia, peer-reviewing is the backbone of quality assurance and a practice where people in your academic field evaluate what you have achieved and make suggestions for improvement. Peer-reviewing takes place at many levels and stages in a scholar’s career: a research gr [...]
