Haven't been all the way through the text, but I do find Adrian Chans attempt to write up A Social Interaction Design (SxD) Guide on Social Media, Social Practices, Social Content, very interesting. Read it here.. We can no longer make sense of social software and related applications from a user-centric model—at least not the model that has come out of cognitive science. That model has insisted on ...

This workshop advanced HCI aesthetics into a research agenda. It concluded by formulating foundations of HCI aesthetics (chiaesthetics?). These centred on developing a new vocabulary of interactive experiences that defines the material of presence grounded in research involving experiment, analysis and intervention. John Knigth from BIAD UserLab, has put out a summary of the Nordichi 2004 workshop Finland on Aesthetic Approaches to HCI on Usability News. Yours truely is ...

...technology second "Social tools don't fit well into the HCI paradigm. While the interface is important, it is not as important as the way social relationships are negotiated. Napster was not a good interface, but the social desire to share overcame that. Many of the Articulated Social Networking tools are the same - a pain in the ass to use, but worth it because of the social ...

Having returned from the NordiChi conference in happening Tampere where the picture above is captured (+ a bit of Photoshopping) - things are slowly coming back to me. I truly enjoyed most of the sessions (all though there where also a few powernap-inducing once as well), but getting the opportunity to meet a lot of good, fun and clever people was an exciting honor. The workshop was a ...