Arjan Geven - Weens World

I visited the IST Event 2006 in Helsinki last week, very interesting! A lot of projects presented, a lot of information on the seventh framework programme for ICT research funding. Met a lot of people, didn’t get all that much sleep.
At CURE, we are mainly interested in the challenges dealing with health care and assisted […]

Today is world usability day, for those who didn’t know.
At CURE, every day is a usability day…. No open events organized by us today. USECON does host a “Usability Club” tomorrow evening though, topic is Online Job Searches.

I traveled to Barcelona last week to perform contextual inquiries for the Laboranova project (the European project I’m mainly working on at CURE), to gather as much user input as early as possible in the design input. These took me two full days and I’ve written lots of notes, gotten some very good ideas for […]

After the conference travelling and all, Nora and I wanted to have some time to relax and most of all, a long-awaited holidays just with the two of us…
And the destination: Castle hotel “Szidonia” in Röjtökmuzsaj, in Hungary. We had a very good time, including a lot of bathing, saunas, steam baths and a very […]

Here are some pictures I took during my stay in Oslo, as promised.
A view over Oslo from the castle:
Alex Taylor presenting an ethnographical fridge study:
The keynote speaker on monday (Susanne Bødker) presents her view on the “third wave of HCI research”:
The view on the sea, close to the Oslo City Hall:
“Experience is everything”, a poster […]

Had a good time at the NordiCHI 2006 in Oslo, where I presented our research on embodied agents in the cognitive vision project and the User Experience research we’ve been doing. I really felt like a sponge there, absorbing so much information coming to me and very interesting research being presented by others.. it’s like […]

The second conference this year coming up, visiting Oslo 14th - 17th of October. I’ll be presenting our view at the Workshop “User Experience – Towards a unified view”. The associated paper is called “Narrations and Storytelling as Methodological Key Elements for Studying User Experience”, by Arjan Geven, Johann Schrammel and Manfred Tscheligi, arguing in […]

Last week was Helsinki week, with a four-day conference on mobile human computer interaction (http://mobilehci.soberit.hut.fi) and a workshop on modelling user assistance in intelligent environments.
The short version: many great ideas, a lot of great research and a lot of eye openers, not a lot of sleep, but many nice people. And a lot of flying […]

It’s been a while, I know, so here’s an extra-double post to make up for that…
A month ago already, you know when the sun was still shining, the swimsuits being used, the holidays not completely starting yet, but ongoing temperatures of more then 30 degrees.. Back then, Manon and Peter dropped by for a visit! […]

As Nora had her last course in Graz (at least for this year) and, well, it’s summer, I also headed south to spend the weekend at her aunt and uncle, which was definitely worth the three-hour journey! We walked up the “Schlossberg” on Saturday evening as the yearly jazz-festival took place. The view up there […]