Undergraduate students at the University of Sussex are engaging with one of the biggest issues in digital publishing today: eBooks. The students’ first year Human Computer Interaction (HCI) module asks them to design an “electronic document shopping system” that could enable book publishers to create a unique environment dedicated to the marketing and sale of electronic-only content. We were invited to talk to the students, explaining a little bit about the commercial environment of perfoming HCI, or usability design, and how their project relates to the live work that we do at Semantico. Expecting a sea of blank faces, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they were interested, listening, and even posed a few questions. Questions that, sometimes, were not easy to answer. Continue reading →