Since this blog’s last post I’ve finish my masters with an 19 out of 20 and started working as a User Experience Designer.
I’m leaving this blog online as a keepsake from my thesis. If you want to keep up with me and my work drop by www.chezbern.com
It’s been quite a busy week for us. I’ll post all the news when the dust settles.
We’re about to reach a huge milestone :)
Facebook announced a critical change in their developer policies. They are taking off a data storage/caching policy that went something like this “Applications can’t store user data for more than 24h”. This basically means anyone who can put up a facebook app can store data about you. And when I say data I mean demographics, posts, friends, etc etc.. All in all, this represents yet another stab on user privacy by Facebook.
Good news is, our data crawler app is now legal and compliant!
We are taking one step back in our user research. We hope it will allow us to take two steps forward in the design and implementation phases. Apart from optimizing and automating the data collection software, we’re also re-thinking the foundations of our survey. Coming up with more focused hypothesis and questions will hopefully yield us stronger and more valid requirements for our design. Tasos, an assistant researcher for the WeSP project at M-ITI is being a great help in this stage, so big thanks to him.
We’ll be back full throttle and with great news in no time, stay tuned.
I’m back in Madeira for a week and having a lot of meetings over at M-ITI. So, expect a considerable amount of developments and some good news too.
Lorrie Cranor, a privacy expert (from whom I read a lot of papers for my literature review) installed poStory!
Today I’m giving a presentation about my project at the Psychology Faculty here in Seville. Read more here.
Wish me luck!
