Beauty – a topic always good for serious research and heated debates, facts and fiction. Interaction-design.org further extends their wonderful encyclopedia with a chapter by Noam Tractinsky on “Aesthetics in HCI”. Here is a sneaky preview …
Doktorandenkolleg ’12
Am Freitag, den 3. Februar 2012, treffen sich zum ersten Mal alle meine internen und externen Doktoranden. Ich hoffe auf einen spannenden Tag, regen Austausch und einen netten Ausklang im Bedouin.
Hier ein paar Impressionen von unserem Treffen.
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OOOOps, they did it again … News from interaction-design.org [updt]
interaction-design.org, my favorite website on Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience, is about to release the next chapter of their encyclopedia: Margaret M. Burnett and Christopher Scaffidi on End-User Development.
Already out: Tom Erickson on Social Computing.
(and visit my chapter, if you haven’t yet)
Friends of the longitudinal …
… come and gather at the CHI 2012 workshop on Theories, methods and case studies of longitudinal HCI research.
Be a part of Designing Interactive Systems 2012

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A trip to Finnland
Last week I visited Media City at the Abo Akademi University in Vasa, Finland. On my way home, I took a little detour via Tampere and gave a lecture at the UCIT PUX 2010 summer school. I enjoyed it very much. (I hope the audience did so as well.) Thank you for the invitation.
I always intend to make a lot of photographs, a nice little visual trip report, and usually end up with nothing to show. It happened again. Actually this is the only picture I made on my trip. I changed trains at Seinäjoki.

Experience Design in Sweden
Koji Wakayama just made me aware of designingtime.se, featuring the work of the Experience Design Group at the Konstfack University College of Art, Crafts and Design, Stockhol, Sweden. Greetings!
