Interactions, Volume 12

Volume 12, Number 1, January + February 2005

Immersion Editorial

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Hello! 4-5

Pushing the envelope

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  Fred Sampson:
  User experience: why do so many organizations believe they own it? report from a Silicon Valley gathering. 7-9

Ask Dr. Usability

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  Ask Dr. Usability. 9

Rant

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Not ready for prime-time voting. 11

The whiteboard

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  Deborah Gill-Hesselgrave, Mark Hall:
  Ease your design anguish. 12-17

Fast forward

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  Aaron Marcus:
  User-centered design in the enterprise. 18-23

Design

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  Austin Henderson:
  The innovation pipeline: design collaborations between research and development. 24-29
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  Jim Miller:
  Storytelling evolves on the web: case study: EXOCOG and the future of storytelling. 30-47

HCI and the web

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  William Hudson:
  A tale of two tutorials: a cognitive approach to interactive system design and interaction design meets agility. 49-51

Books

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  Richard Douglass:
  Books. 53-55

Research alert

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  Shirley Ann Becker:
  Seeking online health resources: a study of web usability for older adults. 57-58

Event planner

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  CHI 2005. 59-61

Rewind

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  Julie Stanford, Ellen R. Tauber, Laura Klein:
  AIGA National Design Conference: an interaction design perspective. 62-63

Rave

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Business software gets it. 64

Volume 12, Number 2, March + April 2005

Robots! In this issue

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  In this issue. 4

Fresh: ok/cancel

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  Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng:
  Infinite loop. 7

Fresh: editors' rant

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Usability as science. 7-8

Fresh: mailbag

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Letters to the editor. 8

Fresh: pushing the envelope

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  Fred Sampson:
  Why do I want ambient intelligence? 9-10

Fresh: ask Dr. Usability

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  Greeking and internationalization. 10

Robots!

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  Jean Scholtz:
  Have robots, need interaction with humans! 12-14
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  Corinna E. Lathan, Amy Brisben, Charlotte Safos:
  CosmoBot levels the playing field for disabled children. 14-16
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  Jodi Forlizzi:
  Robotic products to assist the aging population. 16-18
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  Cynthia Breazeal:
  Socially intelligent robots. 19-22
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  Alan C. Schultz, J. Gregory Trafton:
  Towards collaboration with robots in shared space: spatial perspective and frames of reference. 22-24
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  Candace L. Sidner, Christopher Lee:
  Robots as laboratory hosts. 24-26
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  Marjorie Skubic:
  Qualitative spatial referencing for natural human-robot interfaces. 27-30
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  Emily Hamner, Mark Lotter, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Skip Shelly:
  Case study: up close and personal from Mars. 30-36
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  Robin R. Murphy:
  Humans, robots, rubble, and research. 37-39
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  Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Jean Scholtz:
  Using competitions to study human-robot interaction in urban search and rescue. 39-41
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  Terrence Fong, Illah R. Nourbakhsh:
  Interaction challenges in human-robot space exploration. 42-45
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  Jean Scholtz:
  An interview with Dr. Corinna Lathan of AnthroTronix. 45-47

Practice: design

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  Lars Erik Holmquist:
  Prototyping: generating ideas or cargo cult designs? 48-54

Practice: whiteboard

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  Whitney Quesenbery:
  Designing theatre, designing user experience. 55-57

Practice: business

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  David A. Siegel, Susan M. Dray:
  Avoiding the next schism: ethnography and usability. 58-61

Practice: connections

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  Manfred Tscheligi:
  What else?: people, disciplines, contexts, stories, occurrences. 62-63

People: the way I see it

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  Donald A. Norman:
  Robots in the home: what might they do? 65

People: on the enterprise

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  Dustin Beltram:
  Too many cooks. 66-67

People: fast forward

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  Aaron Marcus:
  Dreaming of robots: an interview with Bruce Sterling. 68-70

People: HCI & the web

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  William Hudson:
  The cost of more: psychology of choice in interaction design. 71

Books

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  Karen Landis:
  Book review. 72-74
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  Gerard Torenvliet:
  New & upcoming titles. 74

Rewind

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  Nico MacDonald:
  Beyond human-centered design? 75-79
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  Jean Scholtz:
  Robot rescue camp. 79-80
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  Cory D. Kidd:
  Robots in Italy: beyond da Vinci. 80-82
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  Michael A. Goodrich:
  HRI 2006. 82-83
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  Julie A. Adams:
  14th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. 82
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  Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  From fiction to science: swissnex explores the interfaces. 83-87

Event planner

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  Event planner. 77

Editors' rave

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  User research as kool-aid. 88-

Volume 12, Number 3, May + June 2005

Whose profession is it anyway? In this issue

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  In this issue. 4

Fresh: rant

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  It's mine... 7-9

Fresh: ok/cancel

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  Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng:
  Who owns it? 8

Fresh: ask Doctor Usability

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  Distressed in a cube. 9-11

Fresh: in remembrance

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  Richard H. Karpinski:
  Jef Raskin, pioneer. 10-11

Fresh: pushing the envelope

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  Fred Sampson:
  Back to school for UX? 12-13

Fresh: mailbag

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Letters to the editor. 13-14

Whose profession is it anyway?

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  Pabini Gabriel-Petit:
  Introduction: sharing ownership of UX. 16-18
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  Dirk Knemeyer:
  Who owns UX?: not us! 18-20
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  John C. Ferrara:
  Building positive team relationships for better usability. 20-21
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  David Hawdale:
  The vision of good user experience. 22-23
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  Peter Bogaards, Ruurd Priester:
  User experience: back to business. 23-25
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  Bob Goodman:
  Making UX an engaging process for prospective user experience adopters. 25-26
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  Jeremy Ashley, Kristin Desmond:
  Success with user-centered design management. 27-32
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  Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini:
  Why engineers own user experience design. 32-34
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  Elizabeth Bacon:
  Defining interaction design. 34-35
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  Victor Lombardi:
  The adaptive user experience organization. 36
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  Fred Sampson:
  STC and user experience. 37-38
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  Paul Sherman, Whitney Quesenbery:
  Engineering the user experience: UX and the Usability Professionals' Association. 38-40
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  Richard Anderson, Keith Instone, Dirk Knemeyer, Beth Mazur, Whitney Quesenbery:
  User experience network: a passion for collaboration. 40-41

Practice: whiteboard

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  Elizabeth A. Buie:
  There once was a whiteboard in verse... 42-44

Practice: business

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  John Scooter Morris:
  Professional societies and business relevance. 45-47

Practice: connections

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  Manfred Tscheligi:
  More experiences: other sides of the profession story. 48-49

People: the way I see it

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  Donald A. Norman:
  Whose profession is this?: everybody's, nobody's. 51

People: on the enterprise

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  Dustin Beltram:
  Virtual bridges: creating successful designs in a distributed development environment. 52-53

People: fast forward

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  Aaron Marcus:
  The out-of-box home experience: remote from reality. 54-56

People: HCI & the web

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  William Hudson:
  Fitts at 50: for link design, size does matter. 57

People: on the edge

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  Lars Erik Holmquist:
  The robots are coming. 58-59

Books

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  Jeff Horvath, Tim Cartwright:
  Book review. 60-62
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  Gerard Torenvliet:
  New & upcoming titles. 61

Event planner

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  UX events. 63

Rave

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Do good, then do better. 64-

Elitoons

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  Nevin Berger:
  Attitudes towards testing. 64

Volume 12, Number 4, July + August 2005

Ambient intelligence: exploring our living environment In this issue

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  In this issue. 4

Fresh: rant

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  CHI and the practitioner dilemma. 5-9

Fresh: ok/cancel

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  Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng:
  HAT9000. 5

Fresh: food for thought

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  John Scooter Morris:
  Why doesn't SIGCHI eat its own dog food? 8-10

Fresh: pushing the envelope

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  Fred Sampson:
  Brand UX. 10-11

Fresh: mailbag

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Letters to the editor. 11-12

Fresh: ask Doctor Usability

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  Seeing is believing. 13

Fresh

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  Donald A. Norman:
  Human-centered design considered harmful. 14-19

Ambient intelligence: the next generation of user centeredness

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  Manfred Tscheligi:
  Introduction. 20-21
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  Norbert A. Streitz, Carsten Magerkurth, Thorsten Prante, Carsten Röcker:
  From information design to experience design: smart artefacts and the disappearing computer. 21-25
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  Leonardo Bonanni, Ernesto Arroyo, Chia-Hsun Lee, Ted Selker:
  Exploring feedback and persuasive techniques at the sink. 25-28
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  Jukka Vanhala, Frans Mäyrä, Ilpo Koskinen:
  Living in metamorphosis: proactive computing in the home environment. 28-31
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  Paul Dourish, Johanna Brewer, Genevieve Bell:
  Information as a cultural category. 31-33
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  Stefan Agamanolis:
  New technologies for human connectedness. 33-37
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  Panos Markopoulos, Boris E. R. de Ruyter, Privender Saini, Albert J. N. van Breemen:
  Case study: bringing social intelligence into home dialogue systems. 37-44
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  Marianne Graves Petersen:
  Interactive spaces: towards a better everyday? 44-45
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  Pattie Maes:
  Attentive objects: enriching people's natural interaction with everyday objects. 45-48
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  Ingelise Nielsen, Graham Pullin:
  A simple secret for design. 48-50
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  Marco Susani:
  Interaction contextualized in space. 50-54
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  Mike Kuniavsky:
  Projections into the world: service avatars as ambient intelligence objects. 55-57
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  Steve Benford:
  Pushing the boundaries of interaction in public. 57-58

Practice: whiteboard

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  Douglas W. Anderson:
  Designers don't hurt people; designs do. 60-61

Practice: business

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  Scott Weiss:
  An alternative business model for addressing usability: subscription research for the telecom industry. 62-64

Practice: connections

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  Emile H. L. Aarts:
  Ambient intelligence drives open innovation. 66-68

People: the way I see it

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  Donald A. Norman:
  Do companies fail because their technology is unusable? 69

People: on the enterprise

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  Dustin Beltram:
  Compromising positions. 70-

People: on the edge

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  Lars Erik Holmquist:
  Ubiquitous music. 71-

People: fast forward

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  Aaron Marcus:
  Usability grows up: the great debate. 72-73

Books

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  J. R. McNeill:
  Book review. 74-77
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  Gerard Torenvliet:
  New & upcoming titles. 75

Event planner

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  Event planner. 77

Rave

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  The case for case studies. 80-

Postcards from the future

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  Atticus Wolrab:
  Postcards from the future. 80

Volume 12, Number 5, September + October 2005

HCI & Higher Education In this issue

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  In this issue. 4

Fresh: ok/cancel

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  Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng:
  Infoaction education. 5

Fresh: rant

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Hello, goodbye in the line of HCI. 5-9

Fresh: mailbag

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Letters to the editor. 8-10

Fresh: pushing the envelope

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  Fred Sampson:
  If your prototype explodes in the forest, will anyone notice? 10-11

Fresh: ask Doctor Usability

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  Growing designers. 13

Back to school: HCI & higher education

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  Russell Beale:
  University HCI---squeezed into where? 15-16
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  Elizabeth F. Churchill, Jonathan Sykes, Todd Zazelenchuk:
  Recognizing student designers: ACM CHI's Student Design Competition. 16-19
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  Frank E. Ritter, Andrew R. Freed, Onida L. M. Haskett:
  Discovering user information needs: the case of university department web sites. 19-27
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  Randolph G. Bias:
  The University of Texas at Austin School of Information: deep in the heart of the information age. 27-28
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  Bonnie E. John:
  The Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. 28-29
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  Terry Winograd, Scott R. Klemmer:
  HCI at Stanford University. 30-31
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  Judith S. Olson:
  The HCI program at the School of Information at the University of Michigan. 31-32
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  Richard H. Hall:
  HCI programs within the Information Science and Technology Department at the University of Missouri, Rolla. 32-33
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  Maddy Janse, Panos Markopoulos, Patricia Vinken:
  Eindhoven's User-System-Interaction Design Program: an overview. 33-34
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  Manfred Tscheligi, Regina Bernhaupt:
  HCI education at the ICT&S Human-Computer Interaction as a cornerstone between technology and society. 34-36
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  Hartmut Obendorf, Matthias Finck, Axel Schmolitzky:
  Teaching balance and respect: HCI Group & Software Technology Group at the University of Hamburg. 36-37
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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  HCI programs. 38-41

Practice: connections

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  Russell Beale:
  Rise up, revolt! 42-44

Practice: business

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  Mary Frances Theofanos:
  Common Industry Format approved as international standard. 46-47

Practice: whiteboard

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  David Heller:
  Aesthetics and interaction design: some preliminary thoughts. 48-50

People: the way I see it

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  Donald A. Norman:
  To school or not to school? 51

People: on the enterprise

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  Dustin Beltramo:
  Back to school. 52-

People: on the edge

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  Lars Erik Holmquist:
  Mixed-up realities. 53-

People: fast forward

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  Aaron Marcus:
  What would an ideal CHI education look like? 54-55

People: HCI & the web

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  William Hudson:
  Playing your cards right: getting the most from card sorting for navigation design. 56-58

Books

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  Tim Moore:
  Book review. 60-62
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  Gerard Torenvliet:
  New & upcoming titles. 61
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  Gerard Torenvliet:
  Errata. 62

Rewind

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  Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Jonathan Arnowitz:
  Michel Waisvisz: the man and the hands. 63-67
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  Sanjay Prasad, Andy Smith, Anirudha Joshi, Iqbal Ahmed:
  Report on the First All-India Human-Computer Interaction Conference. 67-69

Event planner

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  Event planner. 68-69

Rave

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Heads-up!: pointers for prospects. 72

Elitoons

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  Nevin Berger:
  Computer humor interface. 72

Volume 12, Number 6, November + December 2005

In this issue

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  In this issue. 4

Fresh: rant

• 
  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  The misapplication of professional opinion. 5-7

Fresh: ok/cancel

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  Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng:
  Web services panacea. 5

Fresh: mailbag

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  Letters to the editor. 7-8

Fresh: pushing the envelope

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  Fred Sampson:
  Taking UX offshore. 8-9

Fresh

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  William Buxton:
  Piloting through the maze. 10

Fresh: ask Doctor Usability

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  Is the there there? 11

Fresh

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  Gary M. Olson, Dennis R. Wixon:
  CHI 2006: interact, inform, inspire. 12-13
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  Jonathan Lazar, Jeff A. Johnson, Harry Hochheiser:
  Policy at the interface: HCI and public policy. 13-14
• 
  Antti Oulasvirta:
  The fragmentation of attention in mobile interaction, and what to do with it. 16-18
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  Paul McInerney, Frank Maurer:
  UCD in agile projects: dream team or odd couple? 19-23
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  Michael B. Twidale, Paul F. Marty:
  Come on down!: a game show approach to illustrating usability evaluation methods. 24-27
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  Agnieszka Bojko, Gavin S. Lew, Robert M. Schumacher:
  Overcoming the challenges of multinational testing. 28-30
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  Giulio Jacucci, Antti Salovaara:
  Mobile media sharing in large-scale events: beyond MMS. 32-34

Practice: connections

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  John Thackara:
  Designers and the age of fear. 36-38

Practice: business

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  Peter H. Jones:
  Minding your user's business. 39-41

Practice: whiteboard

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  Lada Gorlenko:
  Small world, water coolers, and the challenge of remote collaboration. 42-44

People: the way I see it

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  Donald A. Norman:
  There's an automobile in HCI's future. 45-

People: on the enterprise

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  Dustin Beltramo:
  Embrace the confusion. 46-

People: on the edge

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  Lars Erik Holmquist:
  Computers?: that's so 20th century! 47-

People: fast forward

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  Aaron Marcus:
  When in Rome, do as the Romans do: HCII 2005 recap. 48-

Rewind

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  Dugald Ralph Hutchings, John T. Stasko, Mary Czerwinski:
  Distributed display environments. 50-53

Event planner

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  Event planner. 52-53

Rave

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  Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson:
  The voice of the people. 56

Postcards from the edge

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  Atticus Wolrab:
  Cutting edge today, kitsch tomorrow. 56