A semi-structured interview is a research method to gather qualitative data through conversations or interviews. It falls between structured interviews which follow a rigid set of predefined questions, and unstructured interviews which are more open-ended informal conversations between an interviewer and interviewee, lacking a predetermined set of questions or format. In a semi-structured interview: Overall, […]
Category: PhD Fellow Life
Back in 2014, I published this study together with a co-author. To make it more accessible, I have written the following summary highlighting the essential findings and implications of the study. In the paper, we presented an explorative study about how usability engineering is conducted and understood in practice. Our research question was: “How do […]
Together with co-author Jan Stage we got a short paper accepted at the conference INTERACT 2017. Abstract The essence of usability evaluations is to produce feedback that supports the downstream utility so the interaction design can be improved and problems can be fixed. In practice, software development organizations experience several obstacles for conducting usability engineering. […]
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A few words about selling UX
A while ago I attended a seminar for practitioners about the differences and similarities between usability and UX and not least the problems of understanding, separating, and combining the two into something specific. During this seminar, a problem discussed among the practitioners was how to sell UX. There are a number of challenges when presenting […]
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Madeira life
A few pictures from my life here at Funchal, Madeira.
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Going to Madeira
Sunday I will be leaving for Madeira for the remaining part of the year.
I have joined the ACM IUI 2017 (The 22th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces) program committee. The program committee of the IUI conference is slightly different organized in comparison to other ACM conferences. Usually, the members of a program committee will assign each submission a number of external reviewers and write a meta-review. At IUI […]
Together with coauthors Anders Bruun and Jan Stage we got a paper accepted at OzCHI 2016, the Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group. OzCHI 2016 is taking place in Launceston, Tasmania from November 29th – December 2nd 2016. Abstract While effort has been put into developing and evaluating usability evaluation methods less […]
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Review submitted to OzCHI 2016
Submitted a review to the OzCHI 2016 conference with the formal name “The Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction.” Here at our group, The Research Centre for Socio+Interactive Design at Aalborg University, we have for several years participated in and supported this event. This is the first time I am reviewing for […]
Currently, I’m spending a part of my summer writing a small-scale case study about the impact of usability work. Back in 2014, I was part of a team arranging a redesign workshop [1] for a development team at the company TC Electronic, now known as Music Group Innovation. They wanted to evaluate and improve an application […]