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Joining the ACM IUI 2017 program committee

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 […]

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Papers PhD Fellow Life

Facilitating Redesign with Design Cards: Experiences with Novice Designers

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 […]

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PhD Fellow Life Usability

Work in progress: case study about the impact of usability work

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 […]

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Technology

Locked out of Windows XP

Today I decided to find out if I could bring back life to my dated Dell Latitude D820 I got back in 2006. I haven’t used it for years, and Windows XP was last reinstalled back in 2008. Originally I planned to figure out if this old guy still has a few years left and […]

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@ Roskilde 2016

Joining the Roskilde Festival Crew yet again this year.

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PhD Fellow Life

Automatic generated birthday wishes

A few days ago I celebrated my birthday. During the day, I received several birthday wishes through different media. This included several e-mails from both friends and different companies. Getting greetings is something I appreciate, but what is the point of getting auto generated greetings? This comes down to what the meaning of sending a […]

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PhD Fellow Life Usability UX Design

“Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors”

At my organization, Aalborg University, it is a requirement to change the campus account password once every 90 days, a security imitative implemented last year. This is a widespread security policy used in many organizations, but also a policy whose significance has been questioned for more than a decade. I have very mixed feelings about this […]

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PhD Fellow Life

Two reviews submitted to NordiCHI 2016

Submitted reviews for two papers submitted to NordiCHI 2016 (formally known as the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.) I have now been reviewing papers for several years and have (finally) found somewhat of a review routine. Both papers are interesting and concerned with timely and relevant topics. Despite that the papers are not exactly […]

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Fighting spam with fake MX records

Spam is a well-known problem for all Internet users, especially technical administrators of Internet services. I own several domain names used for different purposes. Most of my domains are not supposed to receive e-mails. However, spammers don’t care and will still send spam mails to these domains. Even without Mail eXchange (MX) records a domain […]