Existing research addresses how designers create tools to support improvisation, yet little research explores how improvisation offers tools to support design work. This paper exp...
Studies show that 14-to-40 year olds are spending more time at the computer and less time exercising. Using Contextual Design, our group tackled the challenge of motivating people...
We present an analysis of what we call the community event space, looking at how social events are planned and organized. Based on a series of interviews, field studies, and a foc...
Group work frequently involves transitions between periods of active collaboration and periods of individual activity. We aim to support this typical work practice by introducing ...
Designing information architecture for complex websites requires understanding user information needs and mental models in that domain. Personas, or user archetypes, created for s...