By way of introducing a new tag, here are three images illustrating immersion in a stream of information: Tiptoe by the Tulips (or Stretch by the Apples) Second Life Dynafleur and Fly-Through Cascade on Wheels The first image is from a MOMA art installation in real space, the next is a similar installation in virtual [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Three Forms of Information Immersion
23-Nov-08Library Usability Links 11/20/08
20-Nov-08Tito Sierra, Jason Casden, and Kim Duckett at NCSU have a DLF presentation via slideshare that effectively collapses the work subject librarians have to do to push a large number of course pages out to the library site. An innovative method for monitoring twitter to both build personas and track the library’s brand Meredith Weiss [...]
Library Usability Links 11/16/08
16-Nov-08The University of Minnesota Walter Library hosts World Usability Day talks in conjunction with Campus IT. New to me: Interactions which is available from the ACM Digital Library A description of user personas, this one with a useful persona template [doc] EDSF report on Color Preference in Web Design [pdf] “Results from this research found [...]
Negative Potential in Social Proof
08-Nov-08CopyBlogger has an interesting write-up on social proof. A lengthy quote: So, social proof gives us important cues about how to behave in ambiguous social situations. But what’s ambiguous about social media? First of all, we’re not sure if we should pay attention. Given the vast amount of information we’re exposed to daily, we naturally [...]
Library Usability Links 11/7/08
07-Nov-08New to me: 10 Steps to User Persona Personas expert Lene Nielson has a question and answer session on personas with the Journal of HC Vistas earlier this year. She is also the author of the above 10 Steps to User Personas. “You have to distinguish between the process of creating a system and testing [...]
Google Settlement in a Nutshell
03-Nov-08Karen Coyle has a fun and inciteful [blargh!] insightful take on the Google/AAP settlement, to wit: This Google/AAP settlement has hit my brain like a steel ball in a pinball machine, careening around and setting off bells and lights in all directions. In other words, where do I start? Reading the FAQ (not the full [...]