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What do you wish you had more, or less of? What do you wish you did more for others, or others did more for you? I wanted to explore these questions and so ran some quick Mechanical Turk tasks asking these, and other similar “Golden Rule” type questions. Though myself and Jeff Heer are still working on some more interesting visualization for these, I wanted to share a few while we’re sorting through the data.

Here are the results, run through Wordle. Please contact me if you want the dataset (~400 answers). Click to see larger versions:

Many folks from our lab will be at UIST 2008 this weekend in Monterey. I’m presenting a poster on Tuesday, Björn Hartmann is presenting his Juxtapose work, Ron Yeh is presenting his work on design tools for paper-based UIs, and Tim Cardenas, Marcello Bastéa-Forte, Tony Ricciardi, Neil Patel, Steve Marmon, Greg Schwartz, William Choi, Joel Brandt, Neema Moraveji, and Michael Smith are also presenting posters (see the program). I put together an index card to give out to people who stop by our presentations & posters, but here it is if you’re not attending or just have to have a look (click for larger):

This quarter, I’m one of the TAs for CS147, the Intro to Human-Computer Interaction class at Stanford (taught by Prof. Scott Klemmer). This last week, students were asked to make paper prototypes, and we were absolutely blown away with what they came up with. Here was one prototype (from a group in Steve Marmon’s studio) that we found particularly incredible and that I wanted to share (click to see large size):

Credit: CS147 group Martin Alonso, Dennis Paiz-Ramirez, Kate Swanson, and Minjeong Kim.

Another awesome submission from the class I’m TAing — CS147 (Intro to HCI, taught by Prof. Scott Klemmer), this one for the video prototype assignment. Video prototypes convey the context and user scenarios behind a UI design, beyond what a paper or screen prototype could do. They work particularly well for mobile (which the Intro to HCI class focuses on) and ubiquitous computing ideas.

Heat City from Paul Doersch (and Mike Lindquist and Chris McCarthy) on Vimeo.

A lot of the students also posted to YouTube.