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The face that crashed a Japanese face recognition system (it assumed that hair lines are located over the eyes -- those cultural assumptions will get you every time!)
They say that in some of these popular [MMPG] games, 40 or 50 percent of the players are actually Chinese farmers. -- Chen Yu (who employs 20 full-time gamers in a 'factory' to generate high-level players for sale to affluent westerners). NYT, 9 Dec 05 But lately, bloggers have been blogging about blogging. They have started attending conferences on blogging, and then blogging about the blogging conferences. Some bloggers have become stars and have turned over the actual blog writing to others so that they can make speeches and write books. (Tom Clancy no longer writes Tom Clancy books, either, but he's hardly the best available role model.) They have chosen up sides and engaged in arcane disputes, and they have reported on the arcane disputes in an incomprehensible shorthand. It's as though we were back in high school and everyone was passing notes. –Jon Carroll What made Wells a true visionary was not so much his ability to predict so many of the technological marvels of the late twentieth century, but his prescience in setting them in a world where men were still wearing neckties. --Geoffroy Nunberg Sorry. I don't understand the word sorry. --Computer error message. Press Enter to Exit. --Computer 'help' message Plans are worthless, planning is invaluable. --Dwight Eisenhower Q: So, has success changed you? Team building comes from the exchange of code. Team building comes from the exchange of code. When my code calls your code, we are a team. Before that, no team!
You may be amused by part 2 of the story of my trip to Maui (The Key), or interested by my description of an area of Yoesemite that is recovering from a fire (After the Fire). If you would like to stick your toe in more technical waters, you might like Ask Not for Whom the Cell Phone Tools (eventually published as Some Problems with the Notion of Context Aware Computing), a one page essay on cultural differences,[as pdf]and a poem on the state of theory in my field called Theory Theory, all of which have amusing bits. In a more serious vein, you might be interested in reading about how telecommuting has impacted my life in Work and Spirit, On the Experience of Remote Meetings and, Some Notes on Telework.
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I'm an interaction designer and researcher in the Social Computing Group at IBM's Watson Labs in New York to which I telecommute from my home in Minneapolis. I've been at IBM since June '97; before that I spent 9 years at Apple, and before that 5 years in a now-defunct startup. My research focuses on designing systems that enable groups of people to interact coherently and productively over networks. More generally, I am interested in topics such as genre theory, pattern languages, urban design, real and virtual communities, and the sociology of human-human interaction, all of which inform my approach to systems design. If you'd like to read something short:
If you'd like to read something longer, you can choose among:
I also maintain two pages of more general interest: The Apple HI Alumni page (a directory of the alumni of the Apple Human Interface community), and the Interaction Design Patterns page, which tries to collect work on patterns and pattern languages in HCI. I can be reached at |
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Events (talks, workshops, etc) Status: Published! Persistent Conversation Minitrack & Workshop '09 (Jan 5-8, 2009, at the HICSS conference) ... workshop reports, etc ... |
Recent additions to this site Minor updates to "Recent" and the Patterns and AHA pages, not listed. August 2008
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Erickson, T., Danis, C., Kellogg W. A., and Helander, M. E. Assistance: The Work Practices of Human Administrative Assistants and their Implications for IT and Organizations. The Proceedings of CSCW 2008. New York: ACM Press, 2008. Ding, X., Erickson, T., Kellogg, W.A., Levy, S., Christensen, J.E., Sussman, J., Wolf, T.V. and Bennett, W.E. An Empirical Study of the Use of Visually Enhanced VoIP Audio Conferencing: The Case of IEAC. The Proceedings of CHI 2007. New York: ACM Press, 2007. Erickson, T. ‘Social’ Systems: Designing Digital Systems that Support Social Intelligence. To appear in AI and Society. Erickson, T., Kellogg, W. A., Laff, M., Sussman, J. Wolf, T. V., Halverson, C. A., Edwards, D. A. A Persistent Chat Space for Work Groups: The Design, Evaluation and Deployment of Loops. The Proceedings of DIS 2006. New York: ACM Press, 2006. Weisz, J. D., Erickson, T., and Kellogg, W.A. Broadcast Synchronous Messaging: The Use of ICT. Proc. CHI 2006. ACM Press: April, 2006. Nominated for a best paper award. Erickson, T. Five Lenses: Towards a Toolkit for Interaction Design [as pdf] Theories and Practice in Interaction Design (ed. S. Bagnara, G. Crampton-Smith, G. and Salvendy.) Lawrence Erlbaum: April, 2006. Unpublished essays and reports |
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