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27 01, 2010

Interaction Design (IxD) Resources: Journals, Conferences, Magazines, Workshops, Websites

By |2016-01-12T21:10:00+02:00January 27th, 2010|Interaction Design|1 Comment

Journals (in alphabetical order) ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, [ACM] TACCESS is a quarterly journal that publishes refereed articles addressing issues of computing as it impacts the lives of people with disabilities. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions The primary emphasis has been on results of broad application, but the journal considers original work focused on specific domains, on special requirements, on ethical issues -- the full range of design, development, and use of interactive systems. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, [AIS, independent, online publisher] It is a high-quality peer-reviewed international scholarly journal on Human-Computer Interaction. As an AIS journal, THCI is oriented to the Information Systems community emphasizing applications in business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts. However, it is open to all related communities that share intellectual interests in HCI phenomena and issues. . The editorial objective is to enhance and communicate knowledge about the interplay among humans, information, technologies, [...]

21 12, 2009

Everyone’s gone green

By |2016-01-12T21:10:01+02:00December 21st, 2009|politics|0 Comments

Posted by James Burgess - 24 November 2009 11:34 :: here Slavoj Žižek on the dangers of ecological utopianism Last night Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher and subject of a New Statesman profile last month, delivered a lecture at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on ecology. Not one to shy away from theorising on any subject, Žižek tackled the environment and the ideology surrounding the contemporary debate on the politics of climate change with characteristic panache. Speaking with almost nervous energy, he covered areas as diverse as animal documentaries, psychoanalysis under Hitler, the latest Bond movie and Hegel's theory of nature. Žižek warned of the dangers of "naturalising" nature, positing the natural world as some utopia to which we can return in balanced harmony. Nature, he says, is itself is not a balanced system, insofar as it is a set of contingent systems adapting to survive amidst various catastrophes and [...]

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