Trip Reports
September 16, 2001
New mobile devices and services are more realistic and useful than last year's models, and will likely expand mobile device adoption. Design usability and simplicity are key, particularly for the automotive market where complexity can be dangerous.
DEMOmobile Conference on Mobile Computing 2001.
April 1, 2001
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for Esther Dyson's PC Forum 2001 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.
February 1, 2001
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for the 2001 World Economic Forum.
World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland, 2001).
September 17, 2000
The current generation of mobile Internet products and services has miserable usability (as shown at the DEMOmobile 2000 conference). New devices like Blackberry, Modo, and a prototype Microsoft telephone do better.
December 31, 1994
Jakob Nielsen's trip report overview of the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Conferences from 1983 to 1994.
June 1, 1994
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for the 1994 Computer-Human Interaction conference (CHI '94).
CHI'94 (Boston, MA, April 24-28), IEEE Software 11, 4 (July), 110-112.
August 1, 1993
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for the 1993 Usability Professionals Association (UPA) Annual Meeting.
Usability Professionals Association Annual Meeting (Redmond, WA, July 21-23, 1993), SIGCHI Bulletin 26, 2 (April 1994).
June 1, 1992
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for the 1992 Computer-Human Interaction conference (CHI '92).
CHI'92 (Monterey, CA, 3-7 May 1992), IEEE Software 9, 4 (July 1992), pp. 78- 79.
June 1, 1990
Jakob Nielsen's trip report from the 1990 Computer-Human Interaction (CHI '90) conference.
CHI'90 (Seattle, WA, 1-5 April 1990), SIGCHI Bulletin 22, 2 (October 1990), pp. 20-25.
May 22, 1990
Trip report from a one-day seminar on usability metrics and methodologies, sponsored by the British Computer Society's human-computer interaction specialist group in connection with its 1990 annual meeting in London.
April 1, 1990
Trip report from the ACM Hypertext'89 conference. Includes summary of Meyrowitz' discussion of open integrating hypertext and the extent to which the Memex vision has been realized so far.
Hypertext'89 (Pittsburgh, PA, 5-8 November 1989), SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 4 (April 1990), pp. 52-61.
July 1, 1989
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for the 1989 Hypertext 2 conference in York, U.K.
International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems (Tokyo, Japan, 28 November - 2 December 1988), SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 1 (July 1989), pp. 68-71.
June 1, 1989
Jakob Nielsen's trip report from the 1989 Computer-Human Interaction (CHI '89) conference held in Austin, Texas.
CHI'89 (Austin, TX, 30 April - 4 May 1989), SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 2 (October 1989), pp. 28-40.
June 1, 1989
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for the 1988 Computer-Human Interaction conference (CHI '88).
CHI'88 (Washington, DC, 15-19 May 1988), SIGCHI Bulletin 20, 2 (October 1988), pp. 58-66.
March 1, 1989
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for the 1989 Hyper Hyper Conference in London, UK.
British Computer Society HyperHyper workshop (London, UK, 23 February 1989), SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 1 (July 1989), pp. 65-67.
December 31, 1988
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for the 1988 International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer systems conference in Tokyo, Japan.
April 1, 1988
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for the 1987 Hypertext conference.
HyperTEXT'87 (Chapel Hill, NC, 13-15 November 1987), SIGCHI Bulletin 19, 4 (April 1988), pp. 27-35. Also exists in a hypertext version in HyperCard format.
December 31, 1987
Jakob Nielsen's Trip Report from the 1987 Joint Computer-Human Interaction + Graphics Interface Conferences (CHI+GI '87)
December 31, 1986
Jakob Nielsen's trip report for the 1986 Computer-supported Cooperative Work conference (CSCW '86).
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work'86 (Austin, TX, 3-5 December 1986), ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 19, 1 (July 1987), pp. 54-61.