» Your computer: A platform, an appliance, or a browser?

I've been thinking about how different people use their computers. It occurs to me that there are at least three different ways that people use their computers: as a platform, as an appliance, or as a browser.  How do you use your computer?

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Posted by Susie Wee on Friday, February 22, 2008 at 11:21:00 PM

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» Desktop vs. notebook: It's all about the display

Advances in display technology are changing how we view computing.

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Posted by Susie Wee on Sunday, January 06, 2008 at 7:17:00 PM

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» A cute workshop

Cuteness is being recognized as research by the research community...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Saturday, January 05, 2008 at 6:11:00 AM

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» The Life of a Packet for Mobile & Media Experiences (Packet Video 2007 Keynote)

I gave a keynote talk at the Packet Video 2007 Workshop in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here are some of the ideas I discussed. I'd like to develop these ideas further, so I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Posted by Susie Wee on Monday, November 12, 2007 at 9:02:00 PM

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» Four days offline- Are you okay?

What happens when you spend four days off/offline?

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Posted by Susie Wee on Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 12:51:00 PM

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» An odd passenger

I just flew from San Francisco to Singapore. I have a confession. On this trip I did something that I never did before- I brought my Sony PlayStation Portable with me... and I played it in public on the plane!

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Posted by Susie Wee on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 11:11:00 AM

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» Hyperstimulated at HP

Sorry I've been away from blogging for a while. It's not because of a lack of ideas... It's the opposite. There are so many exciting things going on that I'm hyperstimulated- there's so much to write about!

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Posted by Susie Wee on Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 11:12:00 AM

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» Social web technology gone bad: Questioning anonymity

I love how social web technology gives everyone a voice. But what do we do when people abuse the freedom that social web technology has given them? Take a look at Alex's story... Should anonymity be allowed in the social web?

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Posted by Susie Wee on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at 1:25:00 PM

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» It's a multilingual world- I feel so left out!

I am very fortunate that the nature of my job lets me meet and work with fantastic people from all over the world. One thing that many of these people have in common is that English is not their first language, some-other-language-that-I-don't-understand is...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 9:26:00 PM

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» ICME panel on HCI for Multimedia Communications

Last week I was on a panel on "HCI for Multimedia Communications" at the ICME 2007 conference in Beijing. I am including a few thoughts that I shared on the panel...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Monday, July 09, 2007 at 3:30:00 AM

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» Are we communicating if we bypass our senses?

sqchen raised a very thought-provoking comment in my last post. He raised the possibility of having a communication chip implanted in you brain that allows you to automatically communicate with other people through their communication chips "without bothering our eyes", or more generally, without bothering our senses. Read on for more...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Sunday, July 01, 2007 at 10:32:00 AM

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» Today's communication experience: How far we've come

Alex wrote a very interesting post on sharing our lives in little pieces. He talks about how various new web technologies allow us to share pieces of our lives in different ways, instantly and easily. This reminds me of my mom handwriting letters to her parents back in Korea using "air mail"...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 5:21:00 PM

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» Rotating blog post styles

I've been blogging for a few months now, so I'm probably still in the "finding my voice" phase. One thing that I've been doing is changing things up by rotating styles between a serious post, a silly post, a technology post, a research post, a management post, a teamwork post, a sports post, and so on. Does this defy conventional blog wisdom?

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Posted by Susie Wee on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 4:07:00 AM

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» I'm a Guitar Hero!

Well, okay, maybe I'm not a guitar hero. But I kind of feel like one when I play Guitar Hero II.  This makes me wonder: What does it take to make a fun game?

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Posted by Susie Wee on Monday, June 04, 2007 at 3:35:00 PM

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» "The man pays!"

I was in New Orleans earlier this week, and two little ladies reminded me about how much of an anomaly I really am!  Here's my little story...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 5:47:00 PM

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» Blogging on an airplane

I wrote a blog post on an airplane using its on-board entertainment system.  Here's my experience with the system...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 10:11:00 AM

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» Mediascapes/Mscapes: A new medium and a new community web site

HP is creating a community web site for Mediascape creators and users. We just opened up the beta release at www.mscapers.com! Read on and give it a try...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 2:55:00 PM

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» Blogging on the beach: Work-life balance

I have a deep dark confession... I want to blog on the beach!  Is this a violation of work-life balance?

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Posted by Susie Wee on Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 9:39:00 PM

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» VooDoo+HP Labs: The Next-Generation Gaming Experience

The Next-Generation Gaming Experience is immersive, social, mobile, and physical. It raises a number of technology challenges to make it real, but researchers love a challenge! Here is our view of the next-gen gaming experience and a few projects that our researchers are working on to get us there...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Saturday, April 07, 2007 at 12:26:00 PM

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» Watching mobile video in bed

Some researchers in my lab did an interesting study on how people use mobile video. One of their findings was that people like to "watch mobile video in bed". Needless to say, this sound bite usually sparks an energetic discussion. Well, it does in the US and in Europe. But, I often get a puzzled look with Asian audiences. One of my researchers in Japan helped me understand why...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 3:38:00 AM

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» A glimpse of Video 2.0

Michael Wesch created a very thought-provoking viral video on Web 2.0.  Does this give us a glimpse of Video 2.0?

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Posted by Susie Wee on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 4:00:00 PM

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» Aliens invade 3GSM Barcelona

In an earlier post I said that a group of creative researchers in my team are demo-ing a Mediascapes game at 3GSM 2007 in Barcelona. Here is a brief description of the game written by Phil Stenton of the HP Labs Mediascapes team: Aliens have invaded Barcelona in HP Labs’ latest mediascape experience. Now you can enter the comic book world of science fiction with the aid of science fact from the mScape team. Armed with the HP iPAQ 5900 Travel Companion, you can save the planet by rescuing the only man who knows how to defeat the invaders. Free him from his alien captors and help him eliminate the digital shift that is the source of the aliens’ power. Read on for more details...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 4:28:00 AM

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» HP Labs Mediascapes at 3GSM

Mediascapes is an HP Labs research project that makes it easy to author and play context-aware multimedia experiences. Simply put, a Mediascape plays multimedia content on a mobile device based on context triggers. Mediascapes has an easy-to-use authoring toolkit that lets you create your own Mediascape. HP is demo-ing a Mediascapes game at 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona. Read on for more details...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Monday, February 12, 2007 at 12:14:00 PM

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» Coupling experience & technology

So you may have wondered why I wrote the post I'm gonna be a gamer again! I wrote it because it showcases an important theme for research and technology development -- the close coupling between experience and technology...

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Posted by Susie Wee on Friday, February 09, 2007 at 9:09:00 PM

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» I'm gonna be a gamer again!

There's a change in the industry that's going to make me a gamer again. It's based on the fact that motion sensors are going mainstream, and this is making games more intuitive to play. The profile of "the gamer" is going to change significantly. And, if the games are designed right, I think my mom and dad are gonna be gamers, too!

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Posted by Susie Wee on Friday, February 09, 2007 at 8:35:00 PM

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