As I alluded to in an earlier post, I’m experiencing some major changes in my life at the moment. I have decided to take a leave of absence from my doctoral work at UBC and pursue full time employment. This decision was not made lightly or hastily! It’s something I had been thinking about for [...]
This evening I decided to register for the Subaru Vancouver International Sprint Tri. Like most local runs and triathlons they’re using Events Online to manage registration. However, unlike most other local races the Subaru Tri registration form managed to annoy me by requiring answers to marketing-related questions. Along with the usual registration stuff like my [...]
Conferences are so much fun, but also oh-so-tiring! I attended my first Northern Voice this past Friday and Saturday and had a great time. While blogging and social media aren’t really related to my personal area of study in HCI (I study people collaborating in the same space, rather than online) they are definitely areas [...]
Interruption, a hot topic in Human-Computer Interaction, is getting a lot of play in the mainstream media these days. Yesterday’s New York Times had a nice article summarizing some recent studies on interruption and multitasking. And earlier this week my father directed me towards an article from this month’s Walrus (registration required): Driven to Distraction. [...]
Because the grad students in our lab are all about planning ahead, we purposely overbooked hotel rooms for an upcoming conference with the intention of cancelling later on if we didn’t have enough bodies to fill the rooms. This was indeed the case, so last week I set about cancelling one of our rooms using [...]
We launched a new version of Status Report this weekend – It is now driven by a content management system which will make it super-easy to keep up to date. I’m really excited to be involved with this project. Lately I have been a bit down on the whole research thing, as I feel like [...]
In my capacity as an HCI grad student/usability professional, I recently had the opportunity to evaluate a blogging tool from a company here in Vancouver. Qumana provides a local software interface to pretty much any web-based blogging software you can think of. While the software is definitely still a work in progress (they are still [...]