Karen presenting at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute is one of the world’s leading university HCI programs and Contextual Design has long been part of the curriculum. So as a friend of CMU’s program, we’re especially pleased that Karen has been invited to give a...

Boston MiniUPA Conference Redux – May, 2011

Well, first off, there is no way they can call this the “Mini Conference” anymore with 600 people in attendance this year. What fantastic numbers! Chris Hass, in his opening, even joked about a contest for new names—and I think he was only half joking. Even the new...

CHI 2010: A Celebration of the Value of Field Data

I was standing on the podium at the end of my Lifetime Achievement Award talk on practical innovation answering questions. Someone asked: “I see that there are a lot of women awarded this year; what can men learn about how to better support women in the field?” This...