Investigatione miscellanea

Despite not posting a lot of stuff in the past weeks (apart from the smallish post about OpenID), I've been quite busy working on my PhD - apart from a small vacation hiatus in the last bunch of days.

In a nutshell, my PhD hypothesis says that, in order to cope with rich interaction scenarios on the Web (i.e., everything that is not a common user with a desktop computer with a typical Web browser and a mouse), one must center their focus on characterizing the set of Web Interaction Environments (WIEs) that one's interested in.

Currently, I've defined a way to specify WIEs (and encompassing prototype modeling tool) - more on that later on (I guess I'll have to create a wiki page about it on my research group's website). I've also sketched a way to reverse engineer existing websites and Web applications crossing the ConcurTaskTrees and traditional hypermedia/Web engineering modeling practices (such as OOHDM or W2000), that allows leveraging accessibility and usability in a pragmatic way. Also, this practice may (can?) be used to fully model highly dynamic websites and Web applications for a given set of WIEs (this is yet to be proven).

However, now it's time for one more pause to fully rercharge my batteries. A long year is waiting for me, from the middle of August onwards, fulfilled with ideation, prototyping, testing, writing, and presenting tasks. See you then.