Sunday, October 19, 2003

Ok/Cancel HCI Comic Read more at OK/Cancel Ok/Cancel is a comic series about Human Computer Interaction (HCI) written by Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi.  It's clever, funny, and well drawn.  Plus they offer it as an RSS feed. Thanks Kevin for telling me about it. 1:00:47 PM    comment

Friday, December 20, 2002

Flash vs Director in HCI Courses The Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon still teaches a number of classes in Macromedia Director.  Since I just graduated from the masters program I decided to petition the department to consider replacing instruction in Director with Macromedia Flash.  My argument was based on four points:   Why Flash over Director in HCII Courses? 1. It’s better for students Smaller files More programmable Easier to use 2. More people can view it 3. More designers/programmers use it 4. There are more jobs available for it   Click through to read my full argument.  At least one faculty member was swayed so I’m hopefully we may see some change. 6:32:16 PM    comment

Monday, November 18, 2002

HCI Student Speakers Series: John Kembel on Ideo   John Kembel, a CMU HCI PhD student, spoke about his experiences working at Ideo, one of the premier product design consulting firms. He mentioned three fun books: The Universal Traveler Rapid Viz Creative Whack Pack   5:54:36 PM    comment

Tuesday, November 05, 2002

Prototyping User Interfaces in Adobe Photoshop   Matt Halpern gave a talk for the HCI Student Speakers Series on prototyping user interfaces in Adobe Photoshop.  It was a great talk with lessons for beginners and experts a like.  Matt didn't use powerpoint but you can download his sample files. 5:42:50 PM    comment An Introduction to Computer Supported Collaborative Work Kevin Sang Lee gave a talk for the Student Speakers Series about Computer Supported Collaborate Work.  Kevin does research with Bob Kraut and strongly recommends students consider taking Dr. Kraut's CSCW class in the spring.  Until then here the powerpoint slides from Kevin's talk. 5:15:23 PM    comment

Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Andrea Klein, a former HCI Masters student who is now working in User Experience at Tivo presented for the HCI Student Speakers Series on: HCI in the Valley Her slides include results from a survey of former MHCI students who were asked about their work experience, what they found most valuable at CMU and what they wish they had learned. You can read the slides in Powerpoint or HTML format. 11:38:05 PM    comment

Monday, October 14, 2002

CMU Student Speaker Series:      Kevin Fox gave a talk today on the Design Process at Yahoo! 7:04:08 PM    comment

Thursday, August 29, 2002

VoiceXML & Microsoft Speech.Net Today I gave a talk for the CMU Sphinx speech reading group about my experience with VoiceXML and Microsoft Speech.NET.  Here are the slides- A Brief Introduction to VoiceXML & Microsoft Speech.NET in PowerPoint or in HTML.  The VoiceXML section is a shortened version of a talk I gave for the HCI Student Speakers Series.  It's designed to teach novices users how to write basic VoiceXML applications using TellMe. Here are the slides - A Super Easy Intro to VoiceXML in Powerpoint or HTML . 3:31:18 PM    comment

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