http://www.mdnpress.com/wmn Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:01:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From time to time I’ve had opportunities to advise organizations on establishing and staffing an HCI research programme.  This has often been a challenge, both for them and for me, because HCI is usually a poorly understood subject within organizations that want to form an HCI research group.  This is ... http://www.mdnpress.com/wmn/2006/01/22/a-capability-maturity-model-for-hci-research/ I write this in Atlanta, a city I’m sharing with some 15,000 haematologists attending their annual meeting. They would all have been in New Orleans had it not been for Hurricane Katrina. Next year’s CHI conference, whose organizing committee meeting I’m attending, will be a lot smaller than ... http://www.mdnpress.com/wmn/2005/12/11/what-does-hci-research-tell-us/ In the November issue of IEEE Computer, Bob Colwell’s column on Books Engineers Should Read caught my eye and led me to add several titles to my reading list. It also made me think about the contrasting messages of Vincenti’s What Engineers Know and some of the more well-known ... http://www.mdnpress.com/wmn/2005/12/06/do-we-learn-from-performance-failures/ In 1991 Mik Lamming and I embarked on a book that was to be published in 1995 by Addison Wesley under the title Interactive System Design. At the time, neither of us really considered ourselves experts in HCI, but we had spent a number of years designing and building ... http://www.mdnpress.com/wmn/2005/11/27/newman-and-lamming/ Ten years ago I started keeping a diary of my working life, and I've kept it going - with some lapses - ever since. Why did I start at that particular point in my career? And why am I mentioning it now? With hindsight, I should have started the ... http://www.mdnpress.com/wmn/2005/11/22/looking-back/