May 26th, 2010
by Turadg.
Here is the main principle to bear in mind when designing a badge: The purpose of the badge is to help people connect.
Participant’s names should be biggest thing on the badge and then affiliation.
First names bigger than last names.
Duplicate front on back for when it flips. (Can print one-sided and fold.)
Jul 31st, 2009
by Turadg.
Your product is useless if no one can use it. But how do you know how usable it is? You can try it yourself, but you are not the user. (“You are not the user” is practically a mantra here at HCII.) One set of methods, usability inspection, provides a framework to systematically evaluate a [...]
Sep 19th, 2008
by Turadg.
Dalton Sherman, the 5th-grader keynote speaker for the Dallas Independent School District’s 2008 Back to School pep rally, gave this speech in front of 20,000 teachers. Watch their reactions, excitement and standing ovation over his powerful message: "Do YOU believe in me?" Dallas ISD hosts the WMV file here but someone uploaded it to YouTube, [...]
Jun 27th, 2008
by Turadg.
I just gave my talk today on Putting the World to Work for ITS and I included a link to this blog, which I intend to write in regularly about research in building scalable systems for intelligent tutoring and education technology in general. (You might also be interested in the paper on which the talk [...]