It’s as if the human-computer interaction community haven’t really addressed (yet) cloud computing, especially in the context of personal cloud services. An exception is this workshop called “Designing interaction for the cloud” organized by a team from Liverpool John Moores University. Their goal was to bring together researchers and practitioners from various fields and “examine the impact of cloud computing on the design of the user experience at the individual and organizational level”.

The workshop introductory paper highlights various research issues related to the following challenges:

• Design for a fragmented user experience
• Interoperability – goals and reality
• Personal clouds and multi-sensory environments
• The cloud in non-commercial application domains, e.g. medicine, education
• Privacy and trust as UX issues
• UI standards and processes in Cloud design