101 ways to think about HCI

My guide to human-computer interaction is now available on Udemy.

• Human-computer interaction, cyberpsychology and core disciplines 
• Human-computer interaction: Can you see what it is yet?
• Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (1)   
• Codependency or Collaboration? Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (4)
• Human-Computer Interaction Conclusions: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (6)

Why is HCI so important?

• Design creativity: harnessing your inner genius
• Augmenting humans with social media
• Ambivalent web design
• Is this progress? Humans, computers and stories
• Storytelling in technology: The myth of progress
• Are computers making us stupid?

User: motivations, modelling, management

• Semiotics: It’s a sign 
• User motivation: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Maslow’s hierarchy of chakras
• Cognitive Science: What makes your users tick
• Cognitive Science for IT Security

• Let’s Talk! Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (2)
• User or Used? Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (3)

• Codebreaking: Humans are the weakest link
• Web design (3): Getting to grips with your user’s experiences –
• Inside your users’ mind: The cultural probe.

Data: finding patterns in the big, dark or dirty

• Our love affair with big data
• Web design (4): Being content with your content 
• Visualisation: Information is power – just avoid drowning in data
• Using patterns to shape our world
• Security and usability: Don’t let your users get you down
• Privacy
• Storytelling: Narrative, Databases, and Big Data 
• Storytelling with AI and machine learning
• Myth making in machine learning
• Tutorial: A quick guide to data mining on Twitter
• Giving your python a Bob Martins
• Stories, semantics and the web of data

System design

• Why task analysis doesn’t do it for me
• Who ordered pizza?
• Productive or Experiential? Human-Computer Interaction: Dialogue, Conversation, Symbiosis (5)
• Web design (1): What’s the story?
• Web design (2): Get the picture
• Web design (5): Structure  
• Card Sorting: Anyone for a game of cards
• Card sort analysis using a spreadsheet

Design Theory

• Designing design: The science of the artificial
• Designing design: Function, behaviour, structure  
• Function-behaviour-structure for website design
• Design using function, behaviour, structure
• Designing design: Form follows function
• Why my coffee machine is so sexy
• Designing design: No function in structure 
• Designing design: The medium is the message
• Designing design: Types and schemas
• The eight tasks in an artefact lifecycle
• Designing design: Attractive things work better
• Designing design: Great expectations
• Designing with the future in mind: The Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough
• Designing design: Colour
• Designing design: Style and standards
• Designing design: Solution spaces  
• Designing design (12): Conclusions

Evaluation

• Web design (7): Evaluation
• Checklists

Social media

• Maslow’s hierarchy of social media
• Web design (6): Sharing and caring on social media
• Sharing and caring on social media 
• Social media explained

The social animal

• Social Psychology: The Social Animal on Social Media (1)
• Conformity: The Social Animal on Social Media (2)
• Propaganda and Persuasion: The Social Animal on Social Media (3):
• Social Cognition: The Social Animal on Social Media (4)
• Self-justification: The Social Animal on Social Media (5)
• Aggression: The social animal on social media (6)
• Prejudice: The social animal on social media (7)
• Liking, loving and interpersonal sensitivity: The social animal on social media (8) 
• Conclusions: The limits of the social animal on social media (9)

Anxiety and change

• Social anxiety on social media
• Social computing: Tribes and tribulations
• Alone together: Is social media changing us?  
• Alone Together three years on: Is social media changing us?
• When the internet becomes exactly what we bring to it
• Feeding the machine: The embodied human in a social media world
• Sociability amongst strangers
• Emerging technologies: New ways for shared experiences

The connection economy

• The Connection Economy: Memail, mixtapes and fortune cookies
• The Connection Economy: Memail, dodgy movies, and me
• Thou shalt not: The Ten Commandments of Social Media
• Thou shalt not: The Ten Commandments of Social Media (2)

Game theory

• Game theory in social media (1): Fate and power
• Game theory in social media marketing (2): Customers and competitors
• Game theory & social media (3): What are you playing at?
• Game theory & social media marketing (4): Conclusions

Futurology: our fears and hopes and money

• Upgrading your embodiment 
• Augmented or virtual: Is your reality working or wearing?
• Trusting technology, ourselves, and others
• Is the future of techology to be found in fiction?
• Love the machine, don’t rage against it
• Westworld: Robots and 10,247 lines of code
• Westworld and the ghosts of AI
• Digital culture
• Simplexity and the Internet of Things
• The ghosts of AI
• The heart of computer programming
• Moments in modern technology