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FEATURES
24 Foci and Blind Spots in User
Experience Research
Javier Bargas-Avila and Kasper Hornbaek
28 Autobiographical Design:
What You Can Learn from
Designing for Yourself
Carman Neustaedter and Phoebe Sengers
34 Hey, That’s Not Who I Voted
For! A Study on Touchscreen
Ballot Design
Juan E. Gilbert, Aqueasha M. Martin,
Gregory Rogers, Jerome McClendon, and
Josh Ekandem
50 What If Sustainability
Doesn’t Work Out?
Bill Tomlinson, Donald J. Patterson, Yue Pan,
Eli Blevis, Bonnie Nardi, Six Silberman,
Juliet Norton, and Joseph J. LaViola Jr.
56 Reflections: A Year Spent
with an Interactive Desk
John Hardy
LESSONS LEARNED
62 Sketching with Chinese
Calligraphy
Frode Eika Sandnes and Hua-Li Jian
40 On Attention to Surroundings
In a world of superabundant,
increasingly ambient information it’s
important to understand the workings
of human attention. How might these
be changing? And can technology
help us tune in to surroundings
rather than just tune them out?
Malcolm McCullough
November + December 2012
Cover Image:
Paula Lay | PaulaLay.com
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