Tag Archives: research

Adjusting your belief system

 

Good research should change our thinking. People often think that sample size is an indictor of good research. There are many other more important factors that determine whether research is any good. Regardless, I’m often asked, what’s the right sample … Continue reading →

 

Seeking participants for paid research study about entertainment and why it matters to you

 

Artefact is conducting a study on fans of different forms of entertainment. We are interested in understanding the activities you do in anticipation of going to or watching an entertainment event; during the event itself; and afterwards to remember or … Continue reading →

 

Talk: Design Rules from Visual Perception

 

I’ll be giving a talk at Puget Sound SIGCHI tomorrow (Thursday the 24th of June). Stop by! They’ve got it listed as, “Neuroscience of Visual Perception,” but that’s not the actual title. Description Artists and designers learn and intuit many … Continue reading →

 

A dialog about magazines: Popular Science

 

Among other things, Christopher Konrad and Martijn van Tilburg read magazines for Artefact. MvT: With all these companies trying to come up with the next big thing in print, it would be interesting to look at what they are concocting. … Continue reading →

 

ID Students

 

I attended RecruitID at the Institute of Design a couple years ago. It’s a recruiting event. Employers interview former and current students for employment. It’s where I met Gabe Biller. It’s also where I met Nikki Pfarr, our 2009 summer … Continue reading →

 

How will human emotions be affected when they are encountered with a virtual replica?

 

[tweetmeme]Reading the interactive design news I discovered W3C research, released for public view and feedback on October 29th, 2009. W3C created the first draft of the Emotion Markup Language 1.0, conceived as a “plug-in” language for use in three different … Continue reading →

 

Facilitation

 

Job requirement: Facilitation I got worked up in a tizzy recently and had to have a drink with international sex symbol Dennis Wixon. I told Dennis that some of our lab work (which includes protocol analysis and RITE method) can … Continue reading →

 

What to Know About Designing for China

 

Who is the intended audience? The audience for this article is primarily professionals in product management and development, innovation, R&D, product and product portfolio planners, engineers, and executives who are responsible for designing and creating technology products (hardware, software, services). … Continue reading →

 

Designing Products for Emerging Markets: On-Demand DesignCast

 

#emerging_markets #webinar #mobile #artefactgroup [tweetmeme]If you missed the live webcast/webinar/stream by Masuma and Martijn on Designing Products for Emerging Markets, you can now download the video file for your own viewing pleasure at mydesignshop.com Here’s the description of what you’ll … Continue reading →

 

Sticky Commerce: 3 Things Retailers Can Observe from the Gaming Community

 

#retention #wom #community #stickiness #ecommerce [tweetmeme]We are constantly learning about how we want to gain people’s attention through better SEO strategies or by participating in “the” conversation though 140 character impressions, but there is another half: the sticky strategy. In … Continue reading →