Albrecht Schmidt - User Interface Engineering

In a recent chat with the journalist Eva Wolfangel we discussed why digital security and privacy is so little usable and why many computer ...

In the Germany the drug store chain Schlecker announced to be insolvent, see the Reuter news post . If you look at the company’s Facebook pa...

Inspired by some discussion on the implication of information sharing at AMI2011 I wanted to put this up for discussion here... If you rea...

Margaret (Margi) Morris presented the opening keynote at the 2011 conference on ambient intelligence in Amsterdam (AMI2011) with the title ...

Google+ circles are on a conceptual basis well argued (e.g. the much talked about real world analogy) but it seems they do not to well for m...

Seeing someone walking up the leaning tower in Pisa with shoes that were clearly not designed for this situation I wondered about the risks ...

This year's Percom conference was held in Seattle and offered an exciting and diverse program. Have a look the program to see it for y...

The answer is probably "my phone" - it seems that for many people the phone has become their primary alarm clock. We have discusse...

Michael Kuhn defended his PhD thesis on "Understanding and Organizing User Generated Data: Methods and Applications" at ETH Zurich...

Social software and media is getting hugely popular and there are many longer explanations in CSCW and CHI why this works and what are the b...

Florian Michahelles mentioned in his blog a talk [1] and paper [2] by Aaron Beach on mobile social networks that are linked to artefacts (...

On the trip to Potsdam two young women sat opposite us - discussion one-by-one the pages in the yearbook of their school. The yearbook was f...