Design transforms our current world into a preferred state. Conclusions about what such preferred states are, requires in depth knowledge about ethics, economics and technology. But since these preferred states are situated in the future, they always include a certain amount of speculation. Science Fiction books and films speculate about possible futures and technological developments. [...]
Design research can be done during any phase of the design process. It requires a specific way of thinking to reason from your design question to conclusions relevant for your design process. Many different research approaches can be applied during a design process. However, the global manner of setting up a study is usually very [...]
For the CHI2009 conference, we prepared unofficial ribbons and distributed them amongst the attendees. We were inspired by Brad Myers collection of CHI conference badges and ribbons. All of our 400 ribbons were gone at the end of the conference and a photo of the table on which the ribbons were presented was shown during [...]
The full text of our paper “Scientometric Analysis Of The CHI Proceedings” is now available. In addition, we published the complete rankings and tables in an online appendix. Find out where your organization is ranked amongst the CHI contributors and how the CHI conference developed over the years. The video recording of the presentation is [...]