Brynn Marie Evans

Category Archives: sxd

Bodystorming privacy at OverlapSF

6 Apr 2010 – 19:42

We had a great bodystorming session at Hot Studio last night. Dennis Schleicher Skyped in for the whole thing from Chicago and led the introduction and warm-up exercises! Our topic dealt with privacy issues in 2019 when we may, theoretically, have some device hanging behind our ears — or someplace discrete — that reads our [...]

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Using remote research to inform social interaction design (SxD)

4 Feb 2010 – 9:02

This was originally posted on the Bolt|Peters blog on February 2, 2010, as a guest author. What is social interaction design? Social interaction design (SxD) is the practice of designing for person-to-person interactions mediated by a computer interface, going beyond pure usability and human-computer interaction. Even fairly solitary experiences like editing a Wikipedia page occur [...]

By brynn | Also posted in research, social | Tagged boltpeters, context, digital ethnography, Remote Research, social interaction design, social search, sxd, user-centered design, vark.com | Comments (0)

Vision board

24 Jan 2010 – 19:45

Last week I made a vision board for 2010, which I have to recommend as an exercise to others! I already had a “themeword” for the year (see my previous post), but I wanted something in addition as a reminder of my goals, hopes, or dreams. When I set out to actually create the vision [...]

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“Social” can’t be solved by an algorithm

14 Jan 2010 – 12:44

I was contacted by a dutch journalist who’s writing an article on the merits of social interaction versus search engines. She read a paper of mine and emailed me with two questions. I thought it’d be useful to post my reply publicly: First, do you think search engines making use of social networks will improve [...]

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Digital Ethnography for Social Interaction Design

12 Dec 2009 – 13:49

I was invited to speak at the Yahoo Research Group seminar last week (December 9, 2009) about the research methods I’ve used to study online communities. I called the talk “Digital Ethnography for Social Interaction Design” to capture the essence of what I wanted to cover. There are a number of challenges in studying online [...]