The paper “Friendship Maintenance in the Digital Age: Applying a Relational Lens to Online Social Interaction” co-authored with Irina Shklovski, Louise Barkhuus, and Joseph Kaye got accepted at the CSCW 2015 conference. Abstract HCI research has explored mobile technologies to support social activity and to support greater feelings of connectedness. Much of this has focused […]
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Norwegian 2014 review
Since 2012 I have frequently been flying Norwegian (Norwegian Air Shuttle) (IATA: DY) in Scandinavia. This is my 2014 review (see my reviews for 2012 and 2013). Overall not much have changed. Norwegian is offering a decent soft and hard product for a low fare carrier. The staff, both when it comes to ground, cabin and […]
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Happy new year
Happy new year! see you in 2015. A few highlights from the passing year:
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IRIS/SCIS 2015 call for papers
Call for papers has been announced for the IRIS/SCIS 2015 conference. This is a joint conference consisting of the two events The 38th Information Systems Research Conference in Scandinavia (IRIS38) and The Sixth Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS 2015). The theme of the 2015 conference is “System design for, with and by users”. The conference will […]
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@ NordiCHI 2014
Just attended the NordiCHI 2014 with the slogan “Fun, Fast, Foundational (& Sauna)“. I presented the paper “Redesign Workshop: Involving Software Developers Actively in Usability Engineering” at the Industrial Experiences track. Acknowledgements are sent to TC Electronic for partly sponsoring my attendance.
Together with my co-authors Jane Billestrup, Jesper Lumbye Andersen, Jan Stage & Anders Bruun, I got a paper accepted at the Industrial Experiences track at the NordiCHI 2014 conference. Abstract In practical usability engineering feedback is only useful if it cost effectively leads to design changes. Several studies have looked into different feedback formats when passing […]
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Thank You Otto Mønsted Foundation
For the second time, I have received a travel grant from The Otto Mønsted Foundation. This grant will partially cover my travel expenses when I next month will attend and present the paper “Usability Engineering in the Wild: How do Practitioners Integrate Usability Engineering in Software Development?” at the 5th International Conference on Human-Centered Software […]
The SAS lounge in Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) terminal 5 is divided into two almost similar lounges: the SAS lounge and the SAS Gold lounge. The business lounge is open for passengers in SAS Plus and business class (as well as first class passengers from other Star Alliance partners). Anyone holding Start Alliance gold status can access […]
Together with my co-author Jan Stage, I got a paper accepted at the 5th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE 2014). Abstract It has been argued that too much research on usability engineering is incoherent with the processes, and settings being the realities for practitioners. In this paper we want to extend the existing knowledge […]
Last year the content delivery network (CDN) provider Incapsula released an analysis with the surprising (and somewhat scary!) conclusion that only 38.5% of visits to websites are humans. All from friendly search engine bots to malicious hacking tools are generating the remaining 61.5% of visits. In comparison a 2012 analysis revealed that the number of […]