Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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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, [...]


Street Hacking

This photo was taken in Lyon. This is awesome! It’s one form of vandalism that I think is justified… it probably makes hundreds of people smile every day. Isn’t that worth breaking the rules for?


Two People and Communication

I’ve been looking at a paper called “Grounding and Communication” by Herbert Clark. I don’t know if I’ve been reading a bit too much…
It takes two people working together to play a duet, shake hands, play chess, waltz, teach, or make love. To succeed, the two of them have to coordinate both the content and [...]