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Wearable Fitness Trackers: A Comparative Usability Evaluation
This guest post is from graduate students Haley Vaigneur and Bliss Altenhoff. Haley and Bliss compared the usability of two fitness trackers as part of a graduate course in health informatics taught by...
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Apple Watch Human Factors
The big news in tech last week was the unveiling of the Apple Watch. I think it is a nice moment to discuss a range of human factors topics. (This topic may elicit strong feelings for or against Apple...
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Nonagenarian designs for aging and inspires younger designers
Barbara Beskind, 90, is a designer at IDEO who works with engineers on products that improve the quality of life for older people.Nicolas Zurcher/Courtesy of IDEO NPR published a great story on Barbara...
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The Square Cash Disappearing Act
Square Cash is a great service – it allows you to send money via an email with no service charge if you’re using your debit card. You can receive money without entering a PIN. I use it all the time to...
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http://uxreactions.com/ (Hat tip to Kristin Moore)
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Parking sign re-design
I’ll be the first to admit that I experience cognitive overload while trying to park. When there are three signs and the information needs to be combined across them, or at least each one needs to be...
View ArticlePsychology Podcasts
Those who know me know I am a fiend for podcasts. Since I’m also a fiend for psychology, I can’t help but notice when it pops up in a podcast, even one not focused on psychology. I use many of them in...
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Three months with Apple Watch
My watch face of the moment First, a disclaimer: this isn’t a full-on review of the Watch. There are more qualified people to review the gadget. The newest one comes from one of the best and most...
View ArticleWarning against overgeneralizing in UX
I enjoyed this article by Matt Gallivan, Experience Research Manager at AirBnB, about the tendency of experts to overgeneralize their knowledge. I try to watch out for it in my own life: When you’re an...
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Thoughtful and Fun Interfaces in the Reykjavik City Museum
I stopped over in Iceland on the way to a conference and popped in to the Reykjavik City Museum, not knowing what I’d find. I love the idea of technology in a museum, but I’m usually disappointed....
View ArticleInstitutional Memory, Culture, & Disaster
I admit a fascination for reading about disasters. I suppose I’m hoping for the antidote. The little detail that will somehow protect me next time I get into a plane, train, or automobile. A gris-gris...
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Calling the Media out for Misleading InfoViz
I was reading an article on my local news today and saw this graphic, apparently made for the article. Being from Alabama, and just a pattern-recognition machine in general, I immediately noticed it...
View ArticleDesigning the technology of ‘Blade Runner 2049’
The original Bladerunner is my favorite movie and can be credited as sparking my interest in human-technology/human-autonomy interactions. The sequel is fantastic if you have not seen it (I’ve seen it...
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‘Mom, are we going to die today? Why won’t you answer me?’ – False Nuclear...
Image from the New York Times The morning of January 13th, people in Hawaii received a false alarm that the island was under nuclear attack. One of the messages people received was via cell phones and...
View ArticleHawaii False Alarm: The story that keeps on giving
Right after the Hawaii false nuclear alarm, I posted about how the user interface seemed to contribute to the error. At the time, sources were reporting it as a “dropdown” menu. Well, that wasn’t...
View ArticleHuman Factors and the Ballot Box
New NPR story on the non-usability of ballots, voting software, and other factors affecting our elections: New York City’s voters were subject to a series of setbacks after the election board unrolled...
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Third Edition of Designing for Older Adults
The third edition of the definitive source for information for designing for older adults has been published: This new edition provides easily accessible and usable guidelines for practitioners in the...
View ArticleWorkshop on Designing for Older Adults
The CREATE group, authors of the book Designing for Older Adults, is holding a workshop: CREATE (www.create-center.org ) is offering one on Designing for Older Adults. The workshop will present...
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