Tag Archives: feedback

Upgrading your embodiment

Posted on August 6, 2011 by stalker

In 2002, I watched Stelarc at the CHI 2002 conference in Minneapolis, give his keynote speech entitled The body is obsolete. We used to talk a lot about obsolete software. Nowadays we mostly talk about giving software an upgrade. In … Continue reading →

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Security and usability: Don’t let your users get you down

Posted on November 15, 2007 by stalker

After my first year at university I spent the summer working in a delicatessen in Putney. One morning during my first week, whilst in the middle of carefully carving six slices of Parma ham for some lady’s dinner party, we … Continue reading →

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Cognitive Science for IT Security

Posted on August 29, 2007 by stalker

Humans are involved in 80-90% of IT security system breaches. We have the technological capacity to keep our software systems secure with but we cannot control the way people use IT. As the complexity of IT systems increase, designers must … Continue reading →

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Why my coffee machine is so sexy

Posted on February 6, 2007 by stalker

My La Pavoni Professional looks fabulous in my kitchen and makes even more fabulous coffee. What else could a coffee machine give me? What about the feeling that I am an extremely clever girl everytime I pull an espresso? From … Continue reading →

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In control of self-assessment

Posted on January 23, 2007 by stalker

Normally, I have violent fantasies about the things I would like to say when on the telephone with the Inland Revenue. Yesterday I didn’t say a word when interacting with them as I filed my self-assessment online.

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