Usability Evaluation / Article 13. First Published in Mar. 2006, HCI Vistas Vol-I Author: Dr. Dinesh Katre On my way back from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Ahmedabad, I visited the Mahatma Gandhi Museum at Sabarmati. It is a place where one ends up reading a lot of letters, newspaper clippings and enlightening quotations by Mahatma Gandhi. One really feels humbled and excited by ...

User Behavior & Psychology / Article 14. First Published in Jan. 2007, HCI Vistas Vol-II Author: Dr. Dinesh Katre BIG BOSS, the Indian adaptation of the internationally hit TV program called Big Brother. 13 celebrities holed up in a house for 100 days with no contact with the outside world (no newspapers, no magazines, no phones, no television, no radio, no watches or clocks) and under 24-hour surveillance ...

Usability Evaluation / Article 6. First Published in Oct. 2005, HCI Vistas Vol-I Author: Dr. Dinesh Katre The Perpetual Fault Finder: Is the world full of usability problems? Are the usability professionals sniffing dogs that immediately detect usability errors in a given product? And do they have solutions to all usability problems? Don't we give birth to new usability problems while solving the previous ones? Or is it like ...