JANUARY + FEBRUARY 2010 VOLUME XVII. 1

Societal/Cultural
Consciousness and Change
Attending to and altering cultural constraints.
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
32 Beyond the Benjamins: Toward
an African Interaction Design
N.J. Bidwell, H. Winschiers-Theophilus
FEATURE
36 Social Change: Women,
Networks, and Technology
Natalie Quizon
INTERACTING WITH PUBLIC POLICY
40 Interacting with Public Policy
Jonathan Lazar
SUSTAINABLY OURS
44 Reclaim
Eli Blevis
The Important Role of User Research
Examples of, and discussions about, the role user
research can and should play.
Clarifying Interactions
Meeting and benefiting from the challenge and nature
of communication and community.
Ps AND Qs
62 Socializing at Cross Purposes
Elizabeth Churchill
TIMELINES
66 Reflections on the Future of
iSchools from a Dean Inspired
by Some Junior Faculty
Martha E. Pollack
ON MODELING
70 The Language/Action Model of
Conversation: Can Conversation
Perform Acts of Design?
Peter Jones
FEATURE

76 Is Wellness Informatics a Field of Human-Centered Health Informatics? Rebecca E. Grinter, Katie A. Siek, Andrea Grimes

FEATURE
48 User-Research-Driven Mobile
User Interface Innovation:
A Success Story from Seoul
Jay Chaeyong Yi
FEATURE
52 Why Marketing Research
Makes Us Cringe
Dan Formosa
Why Designers Sometimes
Make Me Cringe
Klaus Kaasgaard
LIFELONG INTERACTIONS
58 Let the Experts Talk:
An Experience of Tangible
Game Design with Children
Javier Marco, Sandra Baldassarri,
Eva Cerezo, Diana Yifan Xu, Janet C Read
INTERACTIONS CAFE
80 On Designers as
Catalytic Agents…
Jon Kolko, Richard Anderson

January + February 2010

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