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Designing Technology with People in Mind

Volume 11 Issue 01 Published February 15, 2007
ISSN 1535-864X DOI: 10.1535/itj.1101

Foreword

Foreword

By Herman D’Hooge
Senior Principal Engineer
Channel Platforms Group, Intel Corporation

Current Articles

Ethnographic Techniques

	Sideways Glances: Thinking Laterally and Holistically About Technology Placement in the Innovation Process
	Understand how Intel can build successful platforms by gaining a better understanding of people, their homes, social and cultural practices, and the role technologies play in these spaces. With knowledge about people, rather than users, Intel can create technologies that will support meaningful and valued experiences in and of the home.

	Real Reality TV: Using Documentary-Style Video to Place Real People at the Center of the Design Process
	Using video clips from a study of PC usage and meaning conducted in Egypt, Germany, South Korea, and Brazil by Domestic Designs and Technologies Research in 2006, see how the author demonstrates the power of documentary video in ethnographic research and its usefulness as a means for communicating research findings.

Usage-Driven Technology Design

	Intel^® Usage-to-Platform Requirements Process
	Delve into the challenges inherent in developing a platform instead of a product and find out how Intel uses a process encompassing research, human factors engineering, use case and requirements processes, and visual conceptualization to build successful platforms.

	Usage-Based Platform Design: Case Studies in Thermal Design, Enterprise Manageability, and Information Access
	See how Intel is putting more emphasis on understanding end-users' needs and integrating user requirements into the process of platform design. Understand how building end-user-focused solutions takes end-to-end effort that applies to products and services beyond Intel platforms.

	Bringing the Voice of Employees into IT Decision Making
	Knowing that understanding end users is critical when designing new technology for customers, Intel looks within the enterprise and finds that researching employees' IT needs and experiences is critical to the business objectives of a company.

	Home PC Maintenance with Intel^® AMT
	Can a home or small business PC be repaired remotely? Can those long phone calls to support centers be reduced or eliminated? Here, Intel's engineers present a usage model to allow home and small-business PC users to solve daily hardware and software technical problems remotely, with minimum effort on their part.

User Experience Assessment

	Technologies for Heart and Mind: New Directions in Embedded Assessment
	Everyone knows that good habits and prevention are keys to health, but most people lack the capability and motivation to constantly monitor their own health. Margaret Morris and colleagues have developed technologies that fit seamlessly into daily life, providing constant but unobtrusive monitoring and immediate, personalized feedback for both near-term appeal and long-term health benefits.

	Assessing the Quality of User Experience
	No longer is it enough for a product to have a technical advantage; nowadays, taking the user experience into account when designing a product is the key differentiator in determining how competitive a product will be in the market. Understand the roll of emotions, attitudes, thoughts, and perceptions across the usage lifecyle and development of a product.

Preface


	Lin Chao Publisher Intel Technology Journal This is an historic date for the Intel Technology Journal (ITJ): This Volume 11, Issue 1 marks our 10th anniversary as a Web-based publication. The ITJ was first published on the Web in 1997, but the journal has a 30-year history at Intel. For the first 20 years, it was an internal publication for Intel employees only. For the past 10 years though, it has appeared as an external and refereed journal featuring the most recent research and development by Intel Corporation aimed at an audience of medium-level technical expertise. Through the years, our publishing model has not changed; however, with this issue, we are adding an RSS Web feed for our readers. Congratulations to ITJ on its 10th anniversary as a Web-based journal. Also, a sincere thank-you to our readers. more.

	Mapping the Digital Home: Making Cultural Sense of Domestic Space and Place

	IEEE 754R Decimal Floating-Point Arithmetic: Reliable and Efficient Implementation for Intel^® Architecture Platforms