I got my ticket for Bloomington Startup Weekend. The first time I heard about Startup weekend was last year in an article published by Business Week. This year the event will be hosted in Bloomington, Indiana. If you want the opportunity to network with the local community and collaborate on a project/business ...  Continue Reading »

In my Experience Design course, we discussed the three HCI waves in a paper by Susanne Bødker. In summary, the paper addresses how HCI is shifting from interfaces (buttons, things, and menus) to experiences. The challenge is how can the second wave theories and conceptions be positioned to make a ...  Continue Reading »

After fixing course time conflicts over the holiday break for next semester, I looked over my schedule a second time to ease the nerves. Previously, the class I was an associate instructor for conflicted with one class. I have two required classes, Human-Computer Interaction II - Studio and Experience Design, ...  Continue Reading »

Today wasn't as nearly as hectic as yesterday. We visited two companies. Hewlett Packard HP has been around since 1950's and from my observations they are a traditional corporate company. However renovations were being made to improve the work environment more modern looking. At HP we met with another former IU Alum ...  Continue Reading »

The IU (Indiana University) Human Computer Interaction Design and Computer Science graduate students visited Silicon Valley to get a glimpse of the corporate life of many well-known high-tech companies. For many of them it was their first trip to California and it was a ton of fun showing them where ...  Continue Reading »