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 main research projects at the moment involve the development of a theory of “interaction criticism,” research into virtual fashion industries (e.g., in Second Life), and developing techniques for measuring user engagement with social media. In theory, those emphases will be well reflected here, but we’ll see.
November 19, 2008 at 4:42 am |
Fantastic post and I ponder the same:) I’ve conducted a study on interactive storytelling using phenomenology methods. Why are there so few digital artifacts – like computer games – addressed using this method? I am not sure the scientific community is sold yet.