TALKING CARS. An interview with Ing-Marie Jonsson
A collaboration between Toyota and Stanford University is experimenting a talking car interface that does much more than navigation, providing safety advice to drivers. Ing-Marie Jonsson is one of...
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GRAFFITI-COVERED DESKTOP. Interview with K. Sankarapandian
Do users keep their software updated to prevent security attacks? What could the interface do to make users’ more aware of the need to install security updates? A research group from the Georgia...
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PHISHING THE COMMON USER. Interview with S. Egelman
How do common users react to a phishing attack? To know it better, a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has carried out phishing attacks on a sample of users and studied their behaviors....
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DRIVER DISTRACTION. Interview with B. Lathrop (VOLKSWAGEN)
What human factors issues should future car interfaces take into account? The need to monitor the driver and to mitigate driver distraction and inattention came out often in talking with Brian Lathrop...
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INTERACTION WITH FUTURE CARS. Interview with D. Krum (BOSCH)
Industry is working at cars that will talk more and more to their drivers and some researchers are even working at car interfaces that automatically adapt to the specific user who is driving. I’ve asked...
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WHAT DO PEOPLE DO WITH FACEBOOK? Interview with Adam N. Joinson (Univ. Bath)
Facebook is definitely a popular site, but what do we know about how people use it? Adam N. Joinson (University of Bath) is studying Facebook users to learn more about it and will present some of the findings...
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FRIENDS AND ENEMIES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS. Interview with Michael Brzozowski (HP Labs)
Who’s in the list of your friends on social networking sites? True friends? People who you don’t know much? Total strangers? Should those sites offer a richer way of describing your relationship with...
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ON-LINE FRIENDSHIP. Three questions to Irina Shklovski (Univ. California Irvine)
Imagine you have to move to a distant city. What would happen to the relationships you have with your friends? Which telecommunication tools would you use to try to maintain friendship? A research collaboration...
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ATTRACTIVENESS ON-LINE. Interview with Andrew Fiore (Univ. California Berkeley)
What does it make an on-line user profile attractive to members of the opposite sex? Andrew T. Fiore and his colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley have selected 50 user profiles on the...
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TECHNOLOGY AMONG THE HOMELESS. An interview with Christopher A. Le Dantec (Georgia Institute of Technology)
We tend to believe that technology is improving everybody’s life, at the workplace as well as at home. But what about those who have neither a job nor a home? Christopher A. Le Dantec, together with...
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SUSTAINABLE INTERACTION DESIGN. An interview with Eli Blevis
The electronic industry has an increasing responsibility in the production of toxical components and e-waste. Careless strategies are leading to irresponsible designs such as the growing number of products...