Interaction Design is Social Science

WP Social Reader – socialising the reading experience

Sebastian Greger — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Sharing digital artefacts and engaging in conversation about them is the core practice of the social web. While many are used to regularly sharing photos, “status updates” and locations, longer text documents are living in a niche. Blogs provide reasonable dialogue options for shorter texts, but there is hardly any tool that would support detailed [...]

Three days of tags, semantics and hyperlinks: Hypertext 2009

Sebastian Greger — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:34:21 +0000

From a designer’s perspective, Hypertext – the annual conference of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web (SigWeb) – is interesting for having its roots in computer science, but promoting a broad spectrum of topics with a deliberate multi-disciplinary approach. Hypertext 2009 was held at the Northern Italian city of Turin in [...]

The International School on Digital Transformation 2009 – a global network of scholars and professionals

Sebastian Greger — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:36:25 +0000

In July 2009, I attended the International School on Digital Transformation summer school held at the University of Porto – also referred to as ISDT09. As a first-time event, co-organized by the University of Texas at Austin (as part of their collaboration program with Portuguese universities), the summer school brought together around 80 scholars and [...]

Spreading the Word: Embedding as a means of advocacy

Sebastian Greger — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:58:51 +0000

Throughout spring 2009, the Media Lab Helsinki had a common project with the World Health Organization to investigate and create new online concepts for WHO’s “Health Action in Crises” department. Our working group worked together with the WHO staff to evaluate to what extent social web concepts could be used for their public web activities. [...]