A nice way of organizing your research papers by one guy working at microsoft: based on the project that you are working on. that's not really new, but for his organization, the papers are secondary to the description of
the project.
http://research.microsoft.com/~desney/projects.htm
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looking at CHI '08. It would be interesting to attend the conference. If nothing else, it would be a good opportunity to visit florence.
What is a good PhD in HCI?
- some people think that showing proof of the capacity of doing interdisciplinary research is important
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/papers/phd.html
Mircea writing things related to his thesis, so he won't forget them. One has many things floating through his head in the year of the thesis :)