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An inconvenient thesis?

Christine Elizabeth Wania’s phd thesis questions the empirical evidence for the benefits of pattern languages in HCI: For more than two decades much of the pattern language literature, within the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), has focused on the possible benefits pattern languages may provide, but there has been very little empirical work to support [...]
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Emerge Conference Event: Pattern Workshop on Developing and sustaining learning communities, Jun 23rd

June 18, 2008

The Pattern Language Network project (Planet) is running an online workshop at the Emerge Online Event on 23rd  June, around the theme of “Developing and sustaining learning communities“. Education in the 21st century is increasingly based on different models to those of the past – emphasising peer-to-peer interaction, continuing and lifelong learning, and ubiquitous access. Learning communities are an essential ...

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Streamline News

What is Personalisation?

One of the work packages in the Streamline project (and very much related to PERSoNA project) is that of personalisation. It seems to me that personalisation can exist at a variety of different levels: Customising the presentational aspects of an interface: by this I mean that in many instances a user can control the colour, size [...]