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Interview: Erik Hollnagel
20/01/2009

In edition eight of our series of Namahn Interviews podcasts, Joannes Vandermeulen discusses "To Err Is Human: The ETTO Principle" with Erik Hollnagel of the École des Mines de Paris.

Students of TU Delft conduct field studies on critical ambulance systems in Argentina
21/11/2008

In August 2008, three students from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering have executed a research on field study techniques for HCI critical systems. The students conducted several studies on ambulance systems in the Netherlands and Argentina.
The students have observed the medics, and how they interact with the various on board systems of the ambulance, during any emergency call.

Namahn sponsors contemporary dance festival
20/11/2008

The 21st of November, dance workspace DCJ opens her doors for the biennial Jetherfst festival. The dance center, which was founded in 1996 by dancer/choreographer Roxane Huilmand, stimulates the development and diffusion of contemporary dance by offering residencies and trainings for professionals and classes for amateurs.

Traffic congestion. What can the designer do but despair?
13/11/2008

During this lecture at the Belgian Usability Day, Joannes Vandermeulen will explore how human-centered design and its bag of tricks can contribute to the design or remodelling of transport infrastructures in order to alleviate congestion. A lot of congestion is wholly unnecessary and avoidable, if only the design of the interface was right. Aren’t traffic signs the user interface between the driver and the road infrastructure?

Coming together: integrating UCD into current Industrial Design and Software Engineering practices
22/05/2008

At U2 - Understanding Users: the First Conference and Intensive Training on User-Centred Design, Namahn members Kristel Van Ael and Joannes Vandermeulen discuss "Coming together: integrating UCD into current Industrial Design and Software Engineering practices".

CHI 2008 and IA Summit
10/04/2008

Meet Namahn design consultants at CHI 2008, Florence (5-10 April 2008) or IA Summit, Miami (10-14 April 2008).

Interview: Alex Wright
01/04/2008

In the seventh of our series of Namahn Interviews podcasts, Joannes Vandermeulen discusses "The Web That Wasn't: Looking Back for the Future" with Alex Wright of The New York Times.

Alex Wright on "The Web That Wasn't"
01/04/2008

When the Internet opened up to commercial use in the early 1990s, the World Wide Web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee was on-hand to provide an unsophisticated, open and easy markup language to link hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. But was it the best system?

Pecha Kucha Night Vol.2, Brussels
20/01/2008

Pecha Kucha, which is Japanese for the sound of conversation, is a series of show-and-tell evenings for designers, architects, artists and creatives, started by Klein Dytham architecture in Tokyo in 2003.

Interview: Chris Johnson
31/12/2007

In the sixth of our series of Namahn Interviews podcasts, Joannes Vandermeulen discusses "Degraded Modes Of Operation As Causes In Rail And Air Accidents" with Chris Johnson of the University of Glasgow.

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