Jan Brejcha > About me

Research

Objective: To research and develop novel usable approaches to product interaction and experience. Current objectives:

• To build a conceptual framework about user-interface (UI) pattern creation in interaction and communication design based on a corpus of “interaction-sentence” examples from design practice.
• To develop and test, based on this schema, a semiotics-based design, analysis, and evaluation method (e.g., semiotic heuristics).

Interests

• Media philosophy
• Interaction and communication design
• Product semantics
• UI evaluation, usability
• Language and semiotics of the user-interface and interaction
• Semiotic Engineering

About me

Jan Brejcha is a Ph.D. Candidate of New Media Studies at the Charles University in Prague. He is interested in the meaning of things around us, which he exploits in consulting and interaction and communication design courses [cs]. In his free time he enjoys socializing, travelling [cs], and walking his dog. Contact me

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Motto: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

01012012 Board Member: HCI International 2013 – Design, User Experience and Usability at HCI International 2013 in Las Vegas

15092011 Lecture “Chinese UI Design Guidelines”, Sino-european Usability Center (Dalian, China)

06092011 Lecture “HCI in the Czech Republic”, Sino-european Usability Center (Dalian, China)

28052011 Lecture The language of the user interface, UXCamp (Prague)

15052011 Food Interaction & Arduino Hacking workshop (Prague)

23032011 Lecture “User interface as an expression of political ideology”, Megatrends and Media conference (Smolenice, SK)

16112010 Lecture “Validation of semiotic analysis of user-interfaces as an expert evaluation method”, InfoKon conference: Inspiration, innovation, imagination (Brno)

19062010 Author reading of short stories after a guided walk in Všenory about Marina Cvetajeva, a Russian poet (Club 8).

29042010 Lecture Semiotics: A tool for a better UX? (ACM SIGCHI, Prague)

12112009 Presentation of the first Czech HCI Almanac - User-friendly Interfaces

12112009 Prague World Usability Day 2009

16092009 UXWeek 2009: What Web Designers Need To Know About Mobile Design (Rachel Hinman, Adaptive Path)

02062009 User-experience Centre of Excellence, AM+A, Berkeley

07052009 Race, religion, representation Conference presentation about the ideology of the user-interface (“UI Ideology”), Łódź

10112008 Planned conference article “HCI and information services” (Czech Academy of Science)

17042008 Lecture “ICT design from the humanities perspective” at Academy of Fine Arts with a workshop on Denim: UI prototyping tool.

18122007 Lecture Semiotic engineering as an alternative HCI theory

2007–8−11 Prague World Usability Day 2007

2007–8−10 John R. Searle lecture - What is language?

2007–7−10 Designblok, Czech design show in Karlin, Prague

20070907 TransISTor course on Serious games, web 2.0

20070123 Walk around functionalist villas co-authored by Ladislav Sutnar

20070122 Exposition of Ladislav Sutnar and Josef Sudek in their tandem for Druľstevní práce

20070108 Lecture by Aaron Marcus on Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design

20061206 Lecture by STEVE DOW (Georgia Institute of Technology): Prototyping Tools and Methods for Mixed Reality Experiences

20061007 Started a new semestr teaching Interaction Design

20051215 Lecture by Lev Manovich on Compression in culture and technology. (AVU, Prague)

20051202 Workshop on digital broadcast and streaming by Michal Klodner (FAMU, Prague)

20051112 Held a short talk on teaching interaction design on the 2nd Blender Conference in Prague

20050910 TransISTor lecture by Louis Bec: Artificial life as a theoretical concept (Prague).

20050902 TransISTor workshop on emerging technologies for multimedia production (Prague). EyesWeb motion-tracking software and Max/MSP/Jitter multimedia programming.

20050512 Festival of Art and New Technologies enterMultimediale.2 (Prague). What I saw?

20050109 Tabletop interfaces: a lecture by M.R.Morris at Stanford University

20041026 Lecture at Academy of Arts by Franz Fischnaller about projecting old paintings in a 3D CAVE world

20040905 Human-Computer Interaction conference in Leeds (UK), worked as an SV. Keynote on Convivial Systems by Thomas Erickson.

20040823 Film Camp Videus on the Czech-German-Polish border. Filming tutorial and internet site development.

20040429 CHI 2004 Connect in Vienna, Student Volunteer work

20031203 Design exposition at the Pinakotek der Moderne (Munich)

20031112 “Artistic subversions in computer games”, a lecture by Denisa Kera in CIANT (Prague)

20031112 “The materiality of sign in computer games”, a lecture by Josef Slerka in CIANT (a games media studies center, Prague)

20031031 Halloween Ghost Hunt (Prague) with Denisa Kera