November 2008
41 posts
Role of Use Case Narratives in the UML →
Weekend / Reportage - Letter from Iceland →
Iceland is the only country in the world that indexes its loans in addition to charging interest. This means that when Icelanders borrow IKr1,000 from the bank and inflation increases by 5 per cent,…
Kicker Studio →
We’re coming up on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10. I’m a big supporter of this, and of Amnesty International, which works to protect these rights….
Metaphor Project: Generative metaphor and... →
the framing of problems often depends upon metaphors underlying the stories which generate problem setting and set the direction of problem solving
Intentionality
“Thus volition implies the intentionality of action, but Western thought sees intentionality as residing not in the action itself but in a thought or plan that the mind places before the action and which the latter is supposed to execute. Likewise we are inclined to think of memory as a store of images in the mind, rather than of remembering as an activity situated in the world. And we talk about...
Onyx Turns iPhone Into Web 2.0-Savvy Gaming Device... →
Qualitative Research in Business and Management →
Qualitative Research? It’s the bomb, man…
Perfectionists Despair: Digital World “Always in... →
“Innovation isn’t limited to R+D rooms anymore. The Web 2.0 movement—powered by scrappy start-ups such as Twitter, Malhalo and even YouTube have proven that innovation often happens in iterations….
In Tough Economy, Lower Income Mobile Consumers... →
Pastiche scenarios →
Empathy and experience in HCI →
These developments can be viewed in terms of one of the seminal commitments of HCI, ‘to know the user’. Empathy has been used as a defining characteristic of design…
Making use of scenarios →
Scenarios have gained acceptance in both research and practice as a way of grounding software-engineering projects in the users’ work. However, the research on scenario-based design (SBD) includes very few studies of how scenarios are actually used by practising software engineers in real-world projects. Such studies are needed to evaluate current SBD approaches and advance our general...