About

This began as the official blog of Indiana University School of Informatics I590: Interaction Culture. Given its success, and the fact that I never had a steady blog of my own, I’ve decided to continue it even though the course has ended. Students originally in the course are encouraged to continue posting here, though I have no idea how many of them actually will.

I am Jeffrey Bardzell, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Design, specialist in amateur multimedia, and virtual fashionite. My two main research projects at the moment involve virtual fashion, with an emphasis on Second Life, and developing techniques for measuring user engagement with social media, video games and virtual worlds, and mobile devices. In theory, those emphases will be well reflected here, but we’ll see.