Challenges to Design Research
Wake-up calls for what is considered to be a
fundamental part of design thinking.
THE WAY I SEE IT
38 Technology First, Needs Last:
The Research-Product Gulf
Don Norman
FEATURE
43 An Introduction to
Casual Data, and How It’s
Changing Everything
Lauren Serota, Dan Rockwell
FEATURE
48 The Essence of Interaction
Design Research: A Call
for Consistency
Sam Ladner
On the Role and Design of Social
Media and Enhanced Technology
The nature of technology and people, and the often
strange and trying relationship between the two.
INTERACTING WITH PUBLIC POLICY
64 From Bowling Alone to
Tweeting Together: Technology-
Mediated Social Participation
Harry Hochheiser, Ben Shneiderman
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
68 Ubuntu in the Network:
Humanness in Social Capital
in Rural Africa
N.J. Bidwell
LIFELONG INTERACTIONS
72 Only Robots on the Inside
Ryan Wistort
Gender Issues
Questions of gender, identity, and empowerment
provoked by design and technology.
Timelines Update
A historical commentary on the nature of professional
organizations.
Ps AND Qs
52 Sugared Puppy Dog Tails:
Gender and Design
Elizabeth Churchill
SUSTAINABLY OURS
57 The Lens of Feminist HCI
in the Context of Sustainable
Interaction Design
Eli Blevis, Shaowen Bardzell
FEATURE
60 MyMeal: An Interactive
User-Tailored Meal Visualization
Tool for Teenagers Battling
Eating Disorders
Desmond Balance, Jodie Jenkinson
TIMELINES
76 What a Wonderful Critter—
Orphans Find a Home
Jonathan Grudin
INTERACTIONS CAFE
79 On Design Thinking,
Business, the Arts, STEM ...
Jon Kolko, Richard Anderson
March + April 2010
• ON THE COVER: Photographs from left to right by Daniel
Szecket, Jordan Fischer, and SAS Institute Inc. © 2009.
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