Alexander Keith Eady

PhD Candidate - Information Technology, Carleton University.
Human-centered research, service evaluation and design.

[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

@mulegirl A little design thinking, some Agile, then a tad more machine learning, blockchain *chef's kiss*.

[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

@JuliannaRowsell Our lab ran one with kids a few years ago, creating tangible controllers for games.
I'll look at what docs we have from it, but the general idea was:

[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

@314UXHolly I *want* to say it's just stuff, but I am wholly incapable of putting that into practice in my own life.

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

It really irritates me that my research agenda has to be based on what tech bros decide to chase. They get $$$ chase X, X gets proliferated, then we spend all our time analyzing and mitigating the harms of X. We never wanted to build X, that was never in our research agenda,

[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

What's the word for the relief you feel when chrome crashes and can't recover all the open tabs you were definitely going to read soon?

[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

@RobertBohan He even wrote a book "The gentle art of making enemies" where he leaned into his pettiness for fun and profit.

[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

@Acuity_Design What about something like this in its place? Bottles repurposed as light wells.
https://t.co/b6hAXIgRQ4

[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

@Acuity_Design It might illustrate a point you want to make well but, if there's a chance that using it might derail the workshop experience for your participants, it might work against your overall goal.

[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

@albanvillamil Re. changes to user research, the biggest was in starting - the initial project (portal) relied on data drawn from GoC stats - but its size obfuscated the gaps that people were falling through. Combined with our research, we had a better picture to work with.

[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

@albanvillamil and that there were socio-cultural factors present that - if left unaddressed - would reduce the effectiveness of any solution. Parallel to this, we investigated the current avenues of applying and the systems that supported them and found barriers to access and usability.

[Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew]

First look at the stage production of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, currently at Tokyo's Imperial Theatre.
Directed by John Caird. Puppetry designer: @TobyOlie

[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

@jaimewoo I like that, similar to flipping a coin and reflecting on whether you feel happy or disappointed with the outcome.

[Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov]

There's no surer way to legitimize existing biases than through unfocused user research.

When you spread your research objectives too thin for your resources, you don't get enough signal. So you have to interpret/extrapolate to reach an answer. And that's when bias creeps in.
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[Alexander Keith Eady @AVEady]

@benbalter Haha, yeah. I feel you. The top search result for a Microsoft hardware issue is my unresolved post about it from 2017.