Category Archives: social

Impact 2% of Developed or 80% of Undeveloped?

Conversation with friends – a banker and a trader reminded me of University of Cape Town’s Gary Marsden’s plenary talk at Chi 2007 about how there is so much to achieve in the undeveloped world where we can see immediate impact with people’s lives. Pondering over whether I should try to make a difference in …

August 2, 2009 – 12:12 pm | By Michael Voong | Posted in culture, interaction, social | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Social Link Recommenders

In the light of other link aggregators like Digg, Stumbleupon and Delicious; and more recently, Twine try to make the gems of the web more findable. And of course, findability is part of Peter Morville’s famous UE honeycomb so this is obviously important to people, and this can be applied by saying that we must …

July 29, 2008 – 12:30 pm | By Michael Voong | Posted in mobile, social, web | Comments (0)

Mobile HCI 2008 Poster

My poster for Mobile HCI 2008. The main aim of this poster is to illustrate my findings regarding location disclosure privacy in mobile awareness systems. Location deception is a real practice, so I argue here that any UI supporting location disclosure to real people should support the ability to manipulate exactly what others see. Mobile …

April 24, 2008 – 3:54 pm | By Michael Voong | Posted in culture, interaction, location, mobile, phd, privacy, social | Comments (0)