Learning to do Science – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Onyx BOOX Tab X e-Ink Tablet for reading (and note-taking)

2023-03-06

Trying out a rather large (13.3 inch, or roughly DIN A4 size) e-ink Tablet. Turns out it is very well suited for reading (b/w only) and note-taking.
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Changing Habits to Read More Books

2023-02-05

There are lots of tips on changing habits, and lots of them refer to reading more books. In the end, the method has to fit to the person. So here's another (argument for an) option.
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Changing Work-Life Balance and Calendar Time Management

2023-02-05

Trying to spend less time at work, with mixed results. However, using the calendar for when to go home works out pretty well.
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A few early-2023 thoughts on Covid

2023-02-05

A few additional thoughts on Covid, now that almost nobody can stand to hear about it.
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Better than the worst

2022-12-15

Being better than the worst is easy if you keep the worst around for that reason.
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Dissertation Time — It’s a marathon, not interval training

2022-12-15

Short comment why «one day in the week for the dissertation/PhD thesis» likely will not work (well).
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Presentation on Digital Minimalism for Creativity (German Version)

2022-11-11

Combining an earlier presentation on digital minimalism with time enough for creativity.
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Possible blind spots of IRBs (ethics commissions in psychology or medicine) regarding HCI

2022-11-09

Wondering what ethics commissions in medicine or psychology might miss when evaluating human-centered design research.

Image: Meme.
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Script Statistics and Methods for User Research (in German)

2022-10-14

If you are doing user studies, and you want to actually find out whether your products work, this script might be interesting. Well, if you understand German (sorry, I'll hope to do an English version soon).
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Doing Product Demonstrations

2022-09-14

A few comments on doing product demonstrations (prototypes on a scientific conference).
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.