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Karen Holtzblatt

CEO at Interaction Design Foundation INC

IxDF Distinctions

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Publications

Publication period start: 1993
Number of co-authors: 16

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
John Whiteside
2
John Bennett
2
Hugh R. Beyer
7

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
John Whiteside
17
Michael Good
27
Dennis Wixon
43

Publications

Holtzblatt, Karen (2005): Customer-centered design for mobile applications. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 9 (4) pp. 227-237. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-004-0324-5

Holtzblatt, Karen (2001): Inventing the future. In Communications of the ACM, 44 (3) pp. 108-110. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365181.365226

Holtzblatt, Karen (1999): Introduction to special section on contextual design. In Interactions, 6 (1) pp. 30-31. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/interactions/1999-6-1/p30-holtzblatt/p30-holtzblatt.pdf

Beyer, Hugh R., Holtzblatt, Karen (1999): Contextual design. In Interactions, 6 (1) pp. 32-42. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/interactions/1999-6-1/p32-beyer/p32-beyer.pdf

Beyer, Hugh R., Holtzblatt, Karen (1996): Contextual Techniques Starter Kit. In Interactions, 3 (6) pp. 44-50. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/interactions/1996-3-6/p44-beyer/p44-beyer.pdf

Beyer, Hugh R., Holtzblatt, Karen (1995): Apprenticing with the Customer. In Communications of the ACM, 38 (5) pp. 45-52.

Holtzblatt, Karen (1994): If We're a Team, Why Don't We Act Like One?. In Interactions, 1 (3) pp. 17-20. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/interactions/1994-1-3/p17-holtzblatt/p17-holtzblatt.pdf

Holtzblatt, Karen, Beyer, Hugh R. (1993): Making Customer-Centered Design Work for Teams. In Communications of the ACM, 36 (10) pp. 92-103.

Wixon, Dennis, Holtzblatt, Karen, Knox, Stephen T. (1990): Contextual Design: An Emergent View of System Design. In: Carrasco, Jane, Whiteside, John (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 90 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference , 1990, Seattle, Washington,USA. pp. 329-336.

Holtzblatt, Karen, Jones, Sandy, Good, Michael (1988): Articulating the Experience of Transparency: An Example of Field Research Techniques. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 20 (2) pp. 45-47. https://michaelgood.info/publications/usability/articulating-the-experience-of-transparency/

Holtzblatt, Karen, Beringer, Joerg, Baker, Lisa (2005): Rapid user centered design techniques: challenges and solutions. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2005, . pp. 2037-2038. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1057088

Holtzblatt, Karen (2005): Innovating organizational processes: a practical approach. In: Proceedings of OZCHI05, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , 2005, . pp. 1-8. https://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1108368.1108389

Holtzblatt, Karen, Barr, Joshua, Holtzblatt, Les (2009): Driving user centered design into IT organizations: is it possible?. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 2727-2730. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520392

Holtzblatt, Karen (1999): Contextual Design: From Customer Data to Implementation. In: 4th IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering RE 99 7-11 June, 1999, Limerick, Ireland. pp. 1-. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/re/1999/0188/00/01880001abs.htm

Holtzblatt, Karen (2001): Contextual Design: Experience in Real Life. In: Oberquelle, Horst, Oppermann, Reinhard, Krause, Jürgen (eds.) Mensch and Computer 2001 March 5-8, 2001, Bad Honnef, Germany. https://mc.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/konferenzbaende/mc2001/Holtzblatt.pdf

Holtzblatt, Karen, Beyer, Hugh R. (2014): Contextual Design. In: Lowgren, Jonas, Carroll, John M., Hassenzahl, Marc, Erickson, Thomas, Blackwell, Alan, Overbeeke, Kees, Hummels, Caroline, Spence, Robert, Apperley, Mark, Holtzblatt, Karen, Beyer, Hugh R., Kjeldskov, Jesper, Burnett, Margaret M., Scaffidi, Christopher, Svanaes, Dag, Hook, Kristina, Sutcliffe, Alistair G., Schmidt, Albrecht, Cockton, Gilbert, Kaptelinin, Victor, Christensen, Clayton M., Hippel, Eric von, Tractinsky, Noam, Challis, Ben, Shusterman, Richard, Hudson, William, Mann, Steve, Whitworth, Brian, Ahmad, Adnan, de Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius, Fishwick, Paul A., Grudin, Jonathan, Poltrock, Steven, Gallagher, Shaun, Dix, Alan J., Nielsen, Lene, Randall, Dave, Rouncefield, Mark, Bowman, Doug A., Kock, Ned, Cairns, Paul, Few, Stephen, Dautenhahn, Kerstin, Paterno, Fabio, Cyr, Dianne, Mortier, Richard, Haddadi, Hamed, Henderson, Tristan, McAuley, Derek, Crowcroft, Jon, Crabtree, Andy, Stephanidis, Constantine, Giaccardi, Elisa, Stappers, Pieter, Blandford, Ann, Zimmerman, John, Forlizzi, Jodi (eds). "The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed." The Interaction Design Foundation .

Holtzblatt, Karen, Rondeau, David B., Holtzblatt, Les (2010): Understanding "cool. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010, . pp. 3159-3162. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753846.1753943

Beyer, Hugh R., Holtzblatt, Karen (1993): Contextual Design: Toward a Customer-Centered Development Process. In: Software Development 93 Spring Proceedings February, 1993, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

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