Category: writing

• books critical thinking writing

  dresden #1

  I re-read Slaughterhouse-Five earlier this year. It’s an unnerving and funny read that centers on an American POW named Billy Pilgrim who was captured by the Germans and kept in a slaughterhouse in Dresden. Although he becomes “unstuck in time,” Billy was there when the allied forces carpet-bombed Dresden in…

  March 26, 2026
• citations design design methods design research design thinking HCI Human-Centered Design Human-Computer Interaction knowledge production knowledge tools scholarly communication writing

  SIGDOC!

  Super excited that our (Omar Sosa-Tzec and John M. Carroll) submission to SIGDOC was accepted and that we’ll be publishing a full paper in the ACM digital library to accompany the presentation. The paper takes an existing thread of my research in an exciting new direction, and I couldn’t have…

  July 18, 2019
• citations design design research design theory Human-Centered Design Human-Computer Interaction reference management research scholarly communication writing

  New(ish) Preprints

  I’ve added new preprints in the past few days for the following papers. Enjoy! Designing has no given problems, no given processes, and no given solutions. Jordan Beck, Erik Stolterman (https://osf.io/dz9xr/) A Study of Citation Motivations in HCI Research. Jordan Beck, Bikalpa Neupane, John M. Carroll (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/me8zd/) Managing Conflict in…

  November 5, 2018
• citations design knowledge production knowledge tools writing

  Working Papers

  I had a terrific opportunity last week to chat with faculty at a different university about my CV, and one of the things we discussed was how to account for works in progress on a CV. I’d been accounting for work that either (1) has a preprint available for download…

  November 5, 2018
• citations design design research HCI Human-Centered Design Human-Computer Interaction information design research scholarly communication writing

  designing authorship

  One of the coolest things about the PLOS paper I was reading this morning is the way it distinguishes author contributions:   It reminds me of credits at the end of a movie. This is a model that other venues ought to adopt. Personally, I’d love to see something like…

  October 22, 2018
• activism design teaching writing

  industry-academic engagement

  For the past few years I’ve been interested in industry (private sector) influences in academia. If they’re not already the norm, then industry-academic collaborations are becoming more common. I don’t think this is good or bad, and it is a reality that will likely continue spreading. The American Association of…

  August 6, 2018
• critique design design research peer review research scholarly communication writing

  DRS2018 Best Paper Award

  Download/read the paper here.

  July 13, 2018
• design design research editing learning research writing

  a short reflection on writing and failure

  there’s this line in a song that goes something like, “please don’t confront me with my failures. i have not forgotten them.” (Nico – These Days) something motivated me to revisit some writing i did in the earlier days of my studies in Bloomington, and i really didn’t like what…

  July 13, 2018
• design design research HCI HCI/d Human-Computer Interaction Interaction Design knowledge production knowledge tools research writing

  Finally, DIS

  After a few years of submitting papers to HCI venues and learning how to cope with rejection after rejection after rejection*, I finally managed to get one accepted at ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2017. It’s a full paper, and it’s the outcome of a collaboration with Erik Stolterman. Here’s…

  March 13, 2017
• writing

  Death and Dying

  My in-laws live on a farm, and one of their horses loves llamas. For as long as I’ve known him he’s had the same llama companion. But last year the llama died. And my daughter asked where he went. My mother-in-law didn’t know what to tell her. When she told…

  March 2, 2017