Archive for January, 2007

Request for Study Participation

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

I received this notice via the Contextual Design group on Yahoo!.

The questionnaire is for HCI practitioners and researchers who have been conducting laboratory or field studies. It is intended to gather data about the purposes, challenges and opinions of field and lab methods internationally. Later on we hope to make a summary available for the [...]

Barack Obama Starts Presidential Exploratory Committee

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

It’s over a year and a half until the election day that, thanks the the US Constitution, will give us a new president. There will be many hopefuls. And by hopefuls I actually mean wannabes. I have no idea who will end up winning primary elections, but I find the following… hopeful.
Whether [...]

Writeboard Nit

Monday, January 15th, 2007

I had cause to start a Writeboard the other day.
I was still in idea capturing mode so I wanted to write down some bullet points just to get everything out on “paper.” I couldn’t recall if an asterisk was the proper thing to use to get bullet formatting so I clicked the [...]

Me, Interviewed

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

For some reason, Brian Gilham from Ekonoline managed to trick me into generating content for his site decided to interview me.
Check out the why of Matthew Oliphant. Well, part of the why anyway. :)
I appreciate the fact that Brian took the time to visit my site, look around, and generate questions based on what [...]

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