Socializing at Cross Purposes

Published on Author Elizabeth F. Churchill

This is a draft of a column I wrote for the ACM’s interactions magazine. It can out in Volume 17 Issue 1, January + February 2010. The word ‘social’ is a tricky one: we all think we understand what it means but conversations around the design, uptake and adaptations of new, “social media” technologies reveal differences in how we think about this everyday word. Continue reading Socializing at Cross Purposes

The golden age of newsprint collides with the gilt age of internet news

Published on Author Elizabeth F. Churchill

In this article, I discuss the current condition of the newspaper industry and discuss how imperative it is for the news industry to engage more deeply with digital, Internet-based information and interaction design. This is an early draft of a column I wrote for ACM’s interactions magazine. It appeared here and the final version is available from here. It appeared in Volume 16 Issue 4, July + August 2009 of the magazine. Continue reading The golden age of newsprint collides with the gilt age of internet news

Keep your hair on: Designed and emergent interactions for graphical virtual worlds

Published on Author Elizabeth F. Churchill

[This is a draft I wrote for my column, P’s&Q’s in ACMs interactions magazine. For it, I interviewed Bob Moore who was at the time with now defunct Multiverse. It came out in Volume 15 Issue 3, May + June 2008. The final version can be found here.] ______________________________________________________ Chatting with virtual world researchers Jeffrey… Continue reading Keep your hair on: Designed and emergent interactions for graphical virtual worlds