tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:37:17 +0000paperusable privacy and securitydesign patternsresearchjavawifipenhciprogrammingwebdesignsketchgraduate schoolwiijust plain weirdsocial webgamebookchi2011cmudatabasestechnology adoptionnoteworthyessaylocationcooltoyota camrypsychologyphishingmobile socialubicompworld of warcraftweb 2.0videoif only we could use their powers for goodcrowdsourcingAndroidworkcraftchineseteachingA Carnegie-Mellon University professor's rants and raves on research, human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, usable privacy and security, Pittsburgh, and teaching.http://confabulator.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)Blogger430125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-3451988901267745609Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:32:00 +00002012-01-27T17:36:15.060-05:00crowdsourcingworkcraftHere is the accompanying report we had to go along with our scenario of World of Workcraft. This report outlines some of the technical and research challenges. As before, credit should be shared with Rick Wash and Michael Bernstein. Blame should go to me.IntroductionWe envision a future comprised of a highly flexible workforce, where people with appropriate skill sets can be quickly and easily http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/HezMzFJJywY/follow-up-to-world-of-workcraft.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2012/01/follow-up-to-world-of-workcraft.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-7597881969754740475Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:12:00 +00002012-01-27T17:32:19.347-05:00A while back in 2010, I attended a CCC/CRA workshop in Ultra-Large-Scale Interaction. The goal of the workshop was to set out a broad research agenda for having thousands of people collaborate together on hard problems. A lot of the discussion focused on crowdsourcing, and how to apply crowdsourcing techniques to enable new kinds of work in the future.Below is a scenario that Rick Wash, Michael http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/iksMXT0-JyE/future-of-work-or-world-of-workcraft.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2012/01/future-of-work-or-world-of-workcraft.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-7571808962242169835Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:57:00 +00002011-08-30T16:58:37.378-04:00hciBill Buxton has a YouTube channel with some amazing videos of old sketch-based systems, it's a great resource. Thanks to Gabe Johnson for pointing me to these. http://www.youtube.com/user/wasbuxtonhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/gQbW-oP5JV4/old-videos-of-early-sketch-based.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)1http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/08/old-videos-of-early-sketch-based.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-4194642070565604122Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:22:00 +00002011-08-24T16:24:23.898-04:00usable privacy and securityI posted a new article on Communications of the ACM's web site about the increasing ridiculousness of stricter password policies.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/0ZdBREb8Um4/password-policies-are-getting-out-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)1http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/08/password-policies-are-getting-out-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-4424614633388145308Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:48:00 +00002011-06-05T12:49:36.430-04:00I've written up a summary of a recent NSF workshop on improving computer science research between the US and China.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/JaqIZDf9cQk/improving-computer-science-research.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/06/improving-computer-science-research.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-819193826261467348Tue, 17 May 2011 18:52:00 +00002011-05-17T15:02:44.724-04:00hcichi2011Larry Tesler gave a fantastic talk at CHI for his Lifetime Practice award. He presented a summary of his work in helping to develop the modern GUI, and focused specifically on modeless interactions and cut-copy-paste. It was really fascinating listening to all of the subtle issues and design challenges in something that we now take for granted.One example that really struck home was a descriptionhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/0yQu7GlK8Ps/larry-teslers-six-takeaways.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)1http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/05/larry-teslers-six-takeaways.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-5949481578688344224Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:06:00 +00002011-04-17T11:17:24.101-04:00toyota camryThis problem needs a higher pagerank, so I figured I would post the solution here.If your Toyota Camry trunk won't open, one possible reason is that it is set to valet mode. Valet mode means that you cannot open the trunk using the release lever inside the car. To set valet mode, you put the key into the trunk lock and turn it counterclockwise. You will know that your trunk is in valet mode if http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/7HldDwCF54k/how-to-fix-jammed-toyota-camry-trunk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)9http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-fix-jammed-toyota-camry-trunk.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-5332208549456171758Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:54:00 +00002011-04-04T17:56:03.892-04:00social webLike many others, my NCAA bracket went terribly awry this year and I have no teams in the Final Four. However, it did make me think that this is a really interesting failure of wisdom of crowds. According to ESPN:More than 5.9 million brackets were filled out for ESPN.com's Tournament Challenge, but exactly two went 4-for-4 in picking Final Four teams. Only 1,093 brackets had three of the Final http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/2fqOccFF31w/interesting-failure-of-wisdom-of-crowds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)2http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/04/interesting-failure-of-wisdom-of-crowds.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-4522048207490284058Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:35:00 +00002011-03-31T09:38:13.630-04:00I saw this on a CMU website called Death Risk Rankings. The site "Calculates the risk of dying in the next year using MicroMorts (a one-in-a-million chance of dying)."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/Ul5GlTQUiqM/scariest-unit-of-measurement-micromort.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/03/scariest-unit-of-measurement-micromort.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-8292272719607960922Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:49:00 +00002011-03-28T10:55:17.884-04:00usable privacy and securityWell-known security researcher Peter Gutmann has a draft of his book on Engineering Security available on his web page. He has a lot of good commentary about challenges that the security community is facing. So far, my favorite passage challenges the common mentality that security has to be 100% or it's just not worth having.Engineering an effective security solution in the presence of security http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/ydMgQCzShms/peter-gutmann-on-computer-security.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)2http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/03/peter-gutmann-on-computer-security.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-4871848485280507252Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:38:00 +00002011-03-17T17:39:43.974-04:00Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.The scary thing is that things are starting http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/eiGvS1W2SEE/good-douglas-adams-quote.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)2http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/03/good-douglas-adams-quote.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-4612118076218307383Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:19:00 +00002011-01-30T11:25:45.205-05:00I read a lot of my wife's Chemical Engineering magazines, I find it really fascinating to learn about their values, debates, methods, tools, and culture. I found this article especially useful, an article by someone at the US Department of State as to how the US visa system works, why people are rejected (apparently 3/4 of visa applications are approved), and how best to prepare for a visa http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/LTWZvV6qXpI/understanding-us-visa-system.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/01/understanding-us-visa-system.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-5885575595273987687Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:54:00 +00002011-01-28T17:30:00.910-05:00My old high school, the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Math (SCGSSM), sent out a survey to understand what it would take to get more of its alumni to live and work in the state.I think there are a lot of serious structural issues with SC that make it virtually impossible for me to live there. To a large extent, SCGSSM is a victim of its own success. Here, we have a fantastic, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/VJFIklJXK-M/why-i-dont-live-in-south-carolina.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)6http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-i-dont-live-in-south-carolina.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-6302723162129833685Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:32:00 +00002010-12-01T23:36:30.754-05:00locationOddly enough, I was thinking of a service like this when my credit card was declined in London. The problem of course is someone robbing you + your phone.-------------------Visa Takes Fraud Busting to Next Level with Mobile Phone Location TrackingThe company recently formed a partnership with ValidSoft and is going to start using information about the location of customers’ mobile phones to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/p7z0ak-kolw/using-location-based-services-to-combat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/12/using-location-based-services-to-combat.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-6432049800417483330Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:43:00 +00002010-11-01T12:59:13.317-04:00graduate schoolLast Friday I participated in CMU's Fusion Forum, a really fun program designed to improve recruitment of minority students into graduate school. In the panel session, a bunch of faculty discussed their thoughts on what it was like in graduate school.I framed my thoughts in the form of four common misconceptions of PhD level work. They are:1. Grades still matter in PhD programs.Grades matter a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/9Lv3Il8Foxw/four-common-misconceptions-of-graduate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)2http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/11/four-common-misconceptions-of-graduate.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-958442639215506185Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:42:00 +00002010-11-01T12:43:52.363-04:00programmingI like how Google's new Go programming language changes its first program from "Hello World" to "Hello, 世界" (Hello World in Chinese) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/3i0GCPk-WOA/hello.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/11/hello.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-7178740670726342188Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:46:00 +00002010-10-20T09:47:53.639-04:00usable privacy and securityWombat Security Technologies has created a quiz on Facebook to test your knowledge of computer security. See if you can get the Golden Wombat!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/SzVT1JnHwfg/our-facebook-security-quiz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/10/our-facebook-security-quiz.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-267771232480099270Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:41:00 +00002010-10-20T09:46:15.723-04:00videopsychologyI recently found a series of animated lectures on YouTube covering a number of topics, including motivation, economics, ethics, education, and more. By animated, I mean that there is an artist drawing what the speaker is saying, adding an incredible visual angle to the talk. So far, the talk on what really motivates us is my favorite. It looks at how monetary compensation affects creative http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/-BY8xW2XTDg/nicely-animated-talk-on-motivation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)1http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/10/nicely-animated-talk-on-motivation.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-4899421016483941199Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:53:00 +00002010-10-07T10:54:41.454-04:00researchJust learned about this set of questions earlier this week at a DARPA workshop. They seem like a really useful set of questions, for product development and for research.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Heilmeier#Heilmeier.27s_Catechismhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/fiz4F6-Slzk/heilmeiers-catechism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jas0nh0ng)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/10/heilmeiers-catechism.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-6055273643069423198Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:51:00 +00002010-10-07T10:52:51.942-04:00locationusable privacy and securityOne of the writers at MIT Tech Review has blogged about our work on Locaccino."Locaccino Shows How Facebook Places Should Work"http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25832/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/qi3jJE2_yiA/locaccino-blog-entry-at-mit-tech-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jas0nh0ng)1http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/10/locaccino-blog-entry-at-mit-tech-review.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-4436501162705868733Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:03:00 +00002010-09-16T18:04:09.110-04:00researchmobile socialOur research group is studying where people go, what it says about them, and what it says about the places they go. Our app is "CMU Mobility Monitor" on the Android Marketplace, please install if you can (no iPhone version yet). You'll also be put into a raffle to win some money.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/mactGGD5OdY/cmu-mobility-monitor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)2http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/09/cmu-mobility-monitor.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-1423311044818286710Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:07:00 +00002010-08-23T10:13:56.027-04:00researchhci1. Guaranteed performance levels, so that the system never locks the user out due to thrashing, virtual memory swapping, or cpu overload. For example, have the system always reserve (say) 10% of CPU exclusively for user interaction, so that the UI will always be responsive.2. A "Wikipedia" like approach for collaborative user interface design, so that open source software developers can actually http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/aI4_pZL5lTc/three-general-features-id-love-to-see.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)1http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/08/three-general-features-id-love-to-see.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-2627775673953043078Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:18:00 +00002010-08-13T14:21:09.894-04:00ubicompI had a great meeting with an ecologist in Pittsburgh earlier this week, and was pleasantly surprised to learn that there is a company building devices for tracking birds. The devices are essentially souped up mobile phones that combine cellular phone technology, GPS, and small solar panels, and are small enough that you can strap them onto the bird. Very cool!http://celltracktech.com/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/oic08bQjSbQ/in-future-even-birds-will-have-mobile.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-future-even-birds-will-have-mobile.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-4730078526334409070Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:38:00 +00002010-08-10T11:39:32.691-04:00just plain weirdSkypefast - the act of using Skype to eat breakfast together with your significant otherhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/0lGX3eO5keg/skypefast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/08/skypefast.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049814.post-5413216744687056237Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:54:00 +00002010-08-02T17:04:43.576-04:00AndroidAfter using the Droid for about two months, here's my list of things I hope they fix:Text InputAlt and spacebar. You're job is to input a phone number. You hit alt twice to put it into alt mode, so you can type in numbers, and then hit space to separate the groups of numbers. But wait, space in alt mode brings up a list of symbols. Very broken interface.CalendarWhy does the calendar show no eventhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JasonHongsConfabulations/~3/F3r99QVHwvw/things-that-would-be-nice-to-fix-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Hong)0http://confabulator.blogspot.com/2010/08/things-that-would-be-nice-to-fix-in.html