http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog Arjan's rant on usability and HCI from Vienna Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:44:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2008/08/17/picture-says-it-all/ I just returned from the MobileHCI conference in Singapore... a photo impression of the city... Hotel lobby.. 55 Conference site 77 View from the top.. (Equinox bar) 75 57 44 59 63 49 65 67 79 http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2007/09/16/mobilehci-2007-in-singapore/ I went together with Freek on a trip on Whitsun-Monday to the hills in the North of Vienna. The weather was "wechselhaft" at least (i.e. stormy). http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2007/05/30/kobenzl-and-kahlenberg/ http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2007/05/27/world-music-festival-innsbruck/ It’s been quite a while, but back to business. After a very long period of silence, time to give some updates! Have been traveling quite a bit lately, and it seems to have had an influence on the amount of blog posts here. So, what have I been up to in ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2007/05/16/it%e2%80%99s-a-long-long-walk%e2%80%a6/ As made out last year, we'd go snowboarding this year, together with Guus and Olga. Finalizing the plans around Christmas, we had already experienced the general winter temperatures of the year, and decided to search for snow way up in the mountains, at the Kaunertaler Gletscher (station at around 2700 ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2007/02/26/snowboarding-at-the-kaunertaler-gletscher/ Spent the Christmas days in the Netherlands, New year's eve in Bregenz.. and now back in Vienna again! Photos will follow soon :-). Anyway, had a very good time at both places! Oh, and I'll try to update more regularly again.. I see it's been a while. http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2007/01/07/and-back-in-vienna/ Yay, some friends from the Netherlands drove over here for a visit! Had a very good time! I even saw some things I didn't see in Vienna myself yet, such as the pub "The Little Stage" (although just 2 minutes from our place), the karaoke bar and the Christkindlmarkt at ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/12/05/guus-wieneke-en-olga-in-vienna/ Last Sunday, it was time for Santa Lucia songs, Glögg and Pepparkakor (did I write that right?) at the Swedish Bazar in Vienna! We arrived just in time for the 15h songs. Very, very nice! It turns out there's quite an active Swedish community living in Vienna, I subscribed to their ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/12/04/swedish-bazar-in-vienna/ So, I moved from Blogger to WordPress, because it gives me more freedom to do what I want, and it's all under my control now. Unfortunately, I didn't find a good way to transfer all posts & comments from the old site to the new site yet. So, just a ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/12/04/moved-to-other-blogging-software-and-changed-a-bit-of-layout/ 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 ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/12/02/helsinki/ 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. http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/11/14/today-is-world-usability-day/ 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 ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/11/11/three-days-barcelona-some-photos-from-the-last-day/ 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, ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/11/08/wellness-weekend-in-hungary/ 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 ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/11/01/some-pictures-from-oslo/ 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 ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/10/31/back-from-oslo-bremen/ 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 ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/10/05/nordichi-2006-and-user-experience-workshop/ 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. ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/09/18/mobile-hci-06/ 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 ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/09/04/holiday-time-visit-from-manon-and-peter-and-two-weeks-in-corsica/ 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 ... http://www.arjangeven.nl/blog/2006/07/18/weekend-out-to-graz-and-the-sud-steiermark/