http://www.alandix.com/blog just starting ... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:53:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.alandix.com/blog/2008/10/18/from-raw-experience-to-personal-reflection/ http://www.alandix.com/blog/2008/10/18/from-raw-experience-to-personal-reflection/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:53:33 +0000 alan http://www.alandix.com/blog/?p=98 Just a week to go for deadline for this workshop on the Designing for Reflection on Experience that Corina and I are organising at CHI. Much of the time discussions of user experience are focused on trivia and even social networking often appears to stop at superficial levels.  While throwing a virtual banana at a friend may serve to maintain relationships and is perhaps less trivial than it at first appears; still there is little support for deeper reflection on life, with the possible exception of the many topic-focused chat groups.  However, in researching social networks we have found, amongst the flotsam, clear moments of poinency and conflict, traces of major life events … even divorce by Facebook. Too much navel gazing would not be a good thing, but some attention to expressing  deeper issues to others and to ourselves seems overdue.

]]> http://www.alandix.com/blog/2008/10/18/from-raw-experience-to-personal-reflection/feed/ 1 http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/01/03/photolurking-in-the-news/ http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/01/03/photolurking-in-the-news/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:06:22 +0000 alan http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/01/03/photolurking-in-the-news/ My PhD student Haliyana’s work on photolurking was reported in an article Just can’t get e-nough in the Christmas issue of New Scientist. It has already been blogged by Guy Merchant (and lots of other interesting stuff on cyberculture at his my vedana blog).

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