Title: BayCHI Monthly Meeting Location: PARC, Palo Alto Link out: Click here Start Time: 7:30 Date: 2009-03-10 Just a heads up that this tuesday is the monthly BayCHI meeting. There are two presenters this month: Dancing with Ambiguity: Design Thinking in Practice and Theory Larry Leifer, Stanford Center for Design Research Designing a Unified Experience: [...] Read More

Hey Everyone, The other day I came across a blog (through the wonderful world of twitter) on the 10 Sins of Blog Usability.  Since our new website is a blog and usability is what we do, I thought it was appropriate to pass on this info. This is my first attempt at blogging by the [...] Read More

Is this a design failure? Overridden by the user to make the remote simpler: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/making-remotes-easie.html (new window) Read More

Dr. Jordan will be speaking next Wednesday, March 4th at 7 p.m. in ENG 486. The chapter will be providing turkey sandwiches, chips, and water. Please RSVP to me by this Sunday at 9 p.m. Read More

I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with split-adjustable ergonomic keyboards. I have been doing research on a few designs including the Key Ovation Goldtouch. (This is actually the keyboard that I use at my house) As ergonomics students we should be familiar with products like this, so I thought I’d share http://www.goldtouch.com/p-64-goldtouch-adjustable-keyboard-black.aspx Read More

A quick reminder, tomorrow evening (Tuesday the 10th at 7:30 PM) is the monthly BayCHI meeting. Meetings are at PARC in Palo Alto and are open to the public (membership is not required). From the program guide: Getting People to Talk to an Animal: Lessons Learned Designing Aardvark Rob Spiro, The Mechanical Zoo For the [...] Read More

I’ve been talking to many students and the current executive council in terms of what you’d like to see happen with the website. One thing that people seem to miss is the newsletter – we haven’t had a newsletter committee for some time. One idea that’s been floated is scrap the idea of having a [...] Read More