Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Zoom/Spatial Navigation

Nice excerpt from “Humane Interface, The: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems” by Jef Raskin, found from looking at a new Mozilla UX designer’s concept of mobile zoom web browsing + gestures.

If you wanted to design a navigation scheme intended to confuse, you might begin by making the interface mazelike. The maze would put you [...]


Technology Supported Lying?

Just something that came up from looking at the results of my recent survey on privacy in location-based systems. I found that the general pattern of lying regularity in order of most regular to least regular is acquaintances, family, then friends. This result is hardly unexpected, as the questionnaire was primarily taken by university students, [...]


Emotional Expressivity

How does a person express their emotion with just a handful of digital bits and bytes? Anna Ståhl et al. reckon that their research is the way forward; using animations and a dimensional model of colour by Russell in 1980 to portray emotions. SMS messages are augmented with a background image; a subsection of an [...]