Good Problems within and Across Disciplines

Triangulation within and across HCI disciplines

How should we evaluate interactive software? Gray and Salzman (1998) examine five influential studies that compare methods of evaluating usability. In a carefully-argued critique, they identify numerous threats to validity and point out serious flaws in both the designs and claims made in each study. I think there will be various reactions to this article. Some people will react with alarm, con...

Olfactory consciousness across disciplines

Although vision is the de facto model system of consciousness research, studying olfactory consciousness has its own advantages, as this collection of articles emphatically demonstrates. One advantage of olfaction is its computational and phenomenological simplicity, which facilitates the identification of basic principles. Other researchers study olfactory consciousness not because of its simp...

Contents Ontologies across disciplines

Analysing RateMyProfessors Evaluations Across Institutions, Disciplines, and Cultures: The Tell-Tale Signs of a Good Professor

Can we tell a good professor from their students’ comments? And are there differences between what is considered to be a good professor by different student groups? We use a large corpus of student evaluations collected from the RateMyProfessors website, covering different institutions, disciplines, and cultures, and perform several comparative experiments and analyses aimed to answer these two...

Language and Learning across the Disciplines

Language and Learning Across the Disciplines is a joint publication of Georgia Southern University and the Illinois Institute of Technology, and follows the NCTE guidelines for non-sexist language. Major funding for LLAD is provided by the Academic Resource Center of the Illinois Institute of Technology; additional support is provided by Georgia Southern University and Washington State Universi...