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10,854 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, ...

Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
J. Inf. Sci., Vol. 32, No. 2. (April 2006), pp. 198-208.
Authors
* Golder SA, Huberman BA
... * HighWire: View article online

Use checkboxes and radio buttons only to change settings... buttons that make something happen. Also, the changed se... take effect until the user clicks the command button (la...
* If the user clicks the Back button, any changes ma ...
* If th

Use our service to anonymously and securely store an onl... proof of existence for any document. Your documents are ... database or in the Bitcoin blockchain, so you don't have...
All we store is a cryptographic digest of the file, asso ...
The key adv

User Interface Scripting
by Benjamin S. Waldie
As we have seen in the past, AppleScript is a great tool ...
Many scriptable applications offer enough AppleScript su ...
... ing, or UI Scripting, which can be used to do just that.

Uses the new File API supported by Firefox 3.6. Enables ... html element and turn it into a hotspot for receiving fi... explorer!
Each file will be sent as a binary AJAX-request with cus ...

Using brain imaging, scientists have built a map displaying how words and their meanings are represented across different regions of the brain

ust a little less than a year ago I launched Better-Than... WordPress Search. I felt it was time to get back in the ... so I’m now releasing version 2 of the script.

UUIDs (related to GUIDs) are used frequently in computin...
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This is just an example value--these are usually generat ...
Although the process for generating UUIDs is well-unders ...
... WSDAPI, please use the urn:

Valuable data should be published and used as a public g... economy and society.

Value Sensitive Design refers to an approach to the desi... that accounts for human values in a principled and syste... throughout the design process.
Value-Sensitive Design is primarily concerned with value ...

Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. “A lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that it’s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.”
And that, she says, is one of the project’s aims. “W ...

Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to ex... moment when you know the decision you have made was the ... with the realisation that I was being paid, not very muc... nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, thin...
My future c

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Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years. However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware. Thinking about how to make VR accessible to more people, a group of VR enthusiasts at Google ...

Visual Prozac: The Unexpected Beauty of Abandoned Psychi...
Sometimes the most beautiful things come from unexpected ...

Visualizing the "super entity." Courtesy: New Scientist
Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute o ...
They discovered that global corporate control has a dist ...

Vittra, the Swedish Free School Organization, has opened... school -- one without classrooms. The school's designers... open environment that encourages exploration and intelle... allowing students to learn in themed learning environmen... Digital med

Volume 2 Issue 1 (2008) Contents
Susanne Tak, Marco Plaisier, and Iris van Rooij (2008) ...
Magda Osman (2008) Seeing is as Good as Doing
Edward P. Chronicle, James N. MacGregor, Michael Lee, T ...

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Computer support for creativity
Edited by E.A. Edmonds, L. Candy

voronoi treemap algorithm
20 January 2006
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a novel treemap data visualization approach that uses Vo ...

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VR Interfaces: Scent Dome
Overview
Overview of Scent Dome
Of all our senses, smell is our most primal. Animals nee ...
... computer gave to it, to create exactly the right odour.

W3C has launched a new HTML validation site, the Nu Mark... Service. From a Semantic Web point of view it is importa... default setting of the validator validates HTML5 with RD... with microdata, the two simpler syntaxes to add structur... Furthermore

WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

Waiting for the next e-mail or internet "hit" means we a...
I put down my pen, opened my laptop to write this, and i ...
Then my smartphone rang - it had the e-mails too. Withou ...
I automatically replied to my colleague, and clicked on ...
... tion, b

Wales has been enjoying a revival of its native tongue, ... those in rural areas. Now a new awareness is growing in ... south, but some - including native Welsh speakers themse... could foster division and resentment.

Walking machines
Walking machinesIf all the signs are to be believed, the ...
Walking machines will influence all areas of daily and i ...