One month ago I, who has had cancer, dropped my daughter, who has had kidney failure, off at school for
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Augmented or virtual: Is your reality working or wearing?
Steve Mann, inventor of wearable computing, came to the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in the 1990s when I was
Continue readingUser motivation: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Last summer I found myself exploring an early Iron Age home at The Crannog Centre on Loch Tay. The Crannog
Continue readingCognitive Science: What makes your users tick
Like many usability consultants I have spent hours locked in rooms with strangers saying: “What do you think about this
Continue readingSecurity and usability: Don’t let your users get you down
After my first year at university I spent the summer working in a delicatessen in Putney. One morning during my
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