tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132145344106776252012-02-16T03:21:03.186-08:00Keninhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684351647694432798noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13214534410677625.post-72564289287719643522009-08-13T07:57:00.000-07:002009-08-13T12:09:55.537-07:00

I have just read an interesting article from Gartner annoucing they have identified a new approach for enterprise architecture. The first sentence that called my attention says how the research VP at Gartner described the key characteristic of this new approach: "architect the lines, not the boxes".That characteristic is in accordance with my research work on definining a new traceability

Keninhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684351647694432798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13214534410677625.post-29254589968125039792009-05-13T06:16:00.000-07:002009-05-13T08:00:47.375-07:00

I've been doing a lot of presentations about my PhD research in different contexts: doctoral consortium (as mentioned here), workshops, courses (mentioned here), projects, etc. And it gets more and more fun, as you talk about something you like to work on everyday.But it could also be good to diverse a little bit... Interestingly enough, last week I was invited to represent my advisor, Jean

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Last month, I presented my PhD research at the Louvain School of Management (LSM) doctoral day on January 12. This day was organized with a presentation for each scientific center of excellence and several posters from PhD students from these centers that range from marketing, asset management, supply chain management, innovative strategies and information engineering. There were around forty to

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I'm a young researcher and I can admit that I'm already doing a good job. I've been publishing within the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community since my under-graduate degree in Brazil. And now, as a PhD researcher in Belgium, I'm collaborating with yet other communities, such as Organization Engineering and Business Process Management that have been learning about the benefits of HCI.But

Keninhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684351647694432798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13214534410677625.post-44105966037608318382008-11-14T06:00:00.000-08:002008-11-17T03:04:36.440-08:00

The Belgian Usability Day was a success, the auditorium was full of usability people interested in sharing knowledge.The first talk was about traffic congestion by Joannes Vandermeulen, founder of Namahn.  He gave an entertaining talk about how traffic congestion makes our life more difficult and gave some examples of how technology allied with usability could solve some of these problems. Even

Keninhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684351647694432798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13214534410677625.post-49168619615432250552008-11-06T11:51:00.000-08:002008-11-06T12:20:32.814-08:00

World Usability Day is an initiative that promotes usability all over the world. This year's theme is about transportation. I am curious to see how we can be more aware of usability in transportation. On this day, the Global Transport Challenge will be launched in order to help us see how our transportation choices and actions impact our environment.I will attend theLook for an event registered

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It's been over a year since I've started working on analyzing the situation of large corporations, like banks and insurances, that have difficulties in identifying the impact that changes on business processes have on their enterprise systems. The main difference in our strategy is that we take the user interface perspective. One of the questions we answer is: Which user interfaces of these

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Today I am becoming... it's hard to admit, but yes... 30 years old... and such dates always seem an opportunity to appraise life. When we enter university and you are not even 20 years old, you typically say what you expect to achieve by the time you are 30. I surely remember those prospects.Now is the day: have I achieved them?Let's see: I have successfully graduated from the university,

Keninhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684351647694432798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13214534410677625.post-38009207762563828162008-10-04T09:40:00.000-07:002008-10-06T01:51:53.078-07:00

Last week, I had the opportunity to talk to Prof. José Tribolet about our research ideas. He has been working with Organizational Engineering for over ten years and he has been organizing the Special Track on Organizational Engineering at ACM SAC for six years. He and his team have made major contributions for organizational design and engineering with a breakthrough view on the human perspective

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Today I attended a lecture from Dr. Wim De Pauw at the IBM Forum Belgium. His talk and demonstrations were extremely enthusiastic and interesting. He talked about the visualization of complex systems and presented some tools for this purpose.Jinsight is a tool for visualizing and analyzing the execution of Java programs, as shown in the figure below. For example, developers can view threads

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In January, during an exchange day between UCL and Hasselt University with the participation of researchers working with different areas of HCI (e.g. multimodality, ), I was invited by Karin Coninx to give a talk for master students of the Expertise Centre for Digital Media at Hasselt University, who were attending the course “User Centered Design”.In May, there I was talking for several Flemish

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You, just like me, think that what Google does is very innovative. Everyone agrees that their complex is so cool, it's just the best. And it is! But their initiatives are not that new... since the late 1920s organizational researchers have tried to overcome the limitations of a perspective that sees organizations as machines (such as bureaucratic structures). The result of many studies have

Keninhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684351647694432798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13214534410677625.post-84355741517271149322008-02-28T14:22:00.000-08:002008-10-06T02:05:07.958-07:00

I imagine that it would be great to make what was specified by business analysts "talk" to system analysts and UI designers. The "talking" part is very challenging because what is specified by business analysts needs to be well understood by system analysts and UI designers. Besides, UI designers work on aspects of user interaction and they need to be acknowledged by business analysts as an

Keninhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684351647694432798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13214534410677625.post-48134373153022711362007-12-18T14:19:00.000-08:002008-09-20T14:21:11.090-07:00

There is a recurring dispute between these two approaches for software development process: traditional and agile. Which one is better? It depends on the goals you want to reach and on the context of the project, the organization, including its professionals: the experience and skills that they have, and those that they do not have. Concerning the project, it makes a great difference if the

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UPi is available in the ACM Digital Library. UPi is a Software Development Process aiming at usability, productivity and integration, which was created during my Masters at UNIFOR, where I participated in research projects in the Lab of studies on the Use and Quality of Systems (LUQS) coordinated by Elizabeth Furtado. If you want more details, you can download my masters dissertation from my

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How does the name "IKnowU" relates to what I've been working on for the past five years? I created the name IKnowU to mean the need for designing user interfaces based on the knowledge of the user. I haven't exactly worked with user interface adaptation as you might think at first. I have been working with software development processes and usability techniques aiming at making people with

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Last week I attended Tamodia, the 6th International workshop on Task Models and Diagrams, organized in Toulouse, France. It was a pleasant experience for many reasons. First, I presented an article about my PhD research. It is very good to talk about your research and the discussions really help in improving the current work. I am back even more motivated. Second, the networking is always great:

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