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This is a draft of a column I wrote for the ACM’s interactions magazine. Publication details: interactions, Volume 18 Issue 1, January + February 2011, ACM New York, NY, USA. In this article, I look at how our shopping experience, both online and offline, is designed.
Continue reading Rat, Rational or Seething Cauldron of Desire: Designing the Shopper
This is a draft of a column I wrote for the ACM’s interactions magazine. It appeared in Volume 17 Issue 3, May + June 2010. In this article I talk about ‘user engagement’ – how it is conceptualised, how it is measured and what we need to do to develop better metrics and measurements for engagement with Internet based sites and services. Continue reading Enticing engagement
This is a draft of a column I co-authored for the ACM’s interactions magazine with Mark Vanderbeeken of Experientia. It appeared in September 2008 — interactions, ACM Press, Volume 15, Issue 5 (2008).
Continue reading Open, closed, or ajar? Content access and interactions magazine
Submission for EPIC 2005: Methods Paper (10 page limit) Title: The Diversity of Cyberethnography: Approaches to the Study of Sociality in Virtual Lifescapes Authors: E.F. Churchill, B. Jordan and R. Moore Abstract: If cyberspace is “the total interconnectedness of human beings through computers and telecommunication without regard to physical geography” (Gibson, 1984), then cybersociality lies… Continue reading The Diversity of Cyberethnography: Approaches to the Study of Sociality in Virtual Lifescapes