Did anyone forget Usability is both a science and an art! Coming down the post-industrial age linage of American romance with systems and machines, the User Centered Design or more popularly known “Human Factors Engineering’ is on its way to the mystical plateaus in the east. May be the ’science’ of it had to give [...]

With the advent of pervasive systems, computers are becoming a larger part of our social lives than ever before. Depending on the design of these systems, they may either promote or inhibit social relationships. We consider four kinds of social relationships: a relationship with the system, system-mediated collaborative relationships, relationships with a community, and interpersonal [...]

Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists would argue that ‘User Experience’ is relatively a new term and definitely a buzzword. It is an attempt to re-package the old technique with a new age gimmick. The academic community has been engaged with this issue for some time now. Some interesting discussions in this context has been posted [...]