Fallow - Thomas Deneuville

I am sure that it’s the same for everybody. As careers unfold, we slowly gain a deeper understanding of the nature of work, and how we individually function.
Earlier this year, I had lunch with a colleague’s son. He was on winter break from his freshman year and he was curious about working in UX. I tried to give him my version of what it means to work in UX: Different aspects of the same discipline (IA,...

This week was a special week at the office. First of all, it was not at the office, and second of all, it was a whole week of professional development.
Professional development opportunities—and budget—are always limited so our boss let us spend a week catching up with whichever technology, online course, whitepapers, etc. we needed to absorb....

I’ve already blogged here about my reading goals. I realized, though, that reading books is not enough. A lot of exciting HRI advances happen in and thanks to research and I need to keep an eye on this.
I started looking into papers I should be reading right now and here’s a short list:...

Every week or so, I see a new robotic system pop up in my social feed. I do a bit of research and digging around and move on to other things.
I finally decided to start writing about these robots, here, on my blog.
Two of these robots rely on the idea that users will adopt them because they can expand them and program them. It’s an interesting bet. It’s also interesting to note that by users, they mean developers....