Cognition Clash in the IoT SXSW16
Thank you to everyone who attended our (Karl Smith and Thom Heslop) talk at SXSW16, it’s the start of a long road into a really complex and contextual problem. But being silent in the crowd as the King walks by…
The changing face of HCI
Republished from The changing face of HCI, Interfaces 68 from the British Computer Society HCI Group. Recent collaborations into physiological studies such as ergonomics have greatly assisted the development of HCI and given a higher profile to considerations of context….
#Context matters in #Usability
While any kind of user testing is better than none, usability testing out of context is like testing a car on water, it gives some basic information and not a lot more. If performance and use are important at all, then testing should take place in an environment standard to the expected users.


