Category Archives: Experience Design

Somaesthetics Slides

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

Last week at CHI’2012 I was invited to respond to Richard Shusterman’s talk on somaesthetics. Since then, a number of people have asked me for my slides, so I’ve uploaded them here. For what it’s worth, my slides are actually … Continue reading →

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HCI and the Essay

Posted on February 6, 2010 by

Sorry I haven’t been as active on this blog of late; I’m going up for tenure soon, and blogging doesn’t seem to count for much. (Even though I have to wonder how blogs stack up to conference presentations in terms … Continue reading →

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Discourse Analysis vs. Close Reading

Posted on March 24, 2009 by

Introduction Textual analysis is fundamental to many kinds of research, from psychology to literature, philosophy to information science. Not surprisingly, different strategies have emerged from within the various disciplines that do textual analysis, and naturally these strategies reflect the epistemologies … Continue reading →

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Species of Interaction Criticism

Posted on October 19, 2008 by

One problem that is likely impeding the development of critical approaches in HCI is equivocation. Equivocation occurs when different meanings or uses of the same word are used interchangeably. “Criticism” appears to be just such a word, and the origin … Continue reading →

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The Science of Culture in HCI

Posted on September 10, 2008 by

I just received a CFP for a special issue on “enculturating HCI.” Now, “enculturating” is a rather strange word, which I will talk more about below, but for now let me at least say what it seems to mean in … Continue reading →

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4 Ways to Integrate Critical Theory and HCI

Posted on September 1, 2008 by

I’m at a workshop on critical theory and HCI, and one of the participants asked the group to try to articulate what critical theory gets us. People had some very thoughtful reactions and elaborated complex responses. But I had a … Continue reading →

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“Intimate Interactions” Article Published

Posted on August 27, 2008 by

Shaowen Bardzell (my illustrious collaborator and spouse) and I recently wrote an article entitled, “Intimate Interactions: Online Representation and Software of the Self,” which has just been published in Interactions magazine. In it, we argue that online representations do not … Continue reading →

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Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 7

Posted on August 6, 2008 by

Readings: Going Off on Your Own Continued from Part 6 of the Interaction Criticism series, which starts here. Acknowledgment: Many of the ideas and readings cited throughout this series and particularly in this post reflect the research and contributions of … Continue reading →

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Epistemology of Criticism

Posted on August 2, 2008 by

I realized tonight, on a walk with my spouse, that much of what I am doing this summer is documenting the epistemology of criticism. In other words, I am trying to render explicit the ways that critics come to know … Continue reading →

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Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 6

Posted on June 27, 2008 by

Four Directions in Academic Design Criticism In Part 5 of this series (which more or less begins here), I sampled writings about designs from various design magazines to show examples of ways that people write about design. In it, I … Continue reading →

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