Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

With Kinect, Microsoft is finally getting it right. And ... Kinect, while it incorporates ridiculously advanced tech... software, is not about technology or software. It is abo...
As I threw a virtual ball with my real arm to my black p ...
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Game design is a process of informed iteration, not a fi...
How to write a design log
Start with a concept: At the very bottom of the des ...
Build the prototype: Design logs exist as a supplem ...
... stuff is at the top and the old stuff is

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumb...
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Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :)
... and expands on what is known about how mood fluctuates.

The peak–end rule is a psychological heuristic in which people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and at its end, rather than based on the total sum or average of every moment of ...

Peripheral vision is whacked.

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
Other victims in the annals of medicine are a

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator ... is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers.... actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to t... the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

These technologies, BCI and CBI, can be combined to real... non-invasive, computer-mediated brain-to-brain (B2B) com... subjects (hyperinteraction).

The Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
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Personalization is a multidimensional concept, and it is... unpack it. If we are really talking about personalizatio... simply co-opting a word to make the technically feasible... and socially sophisticated, we need to think more deeply.

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e...
Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ...
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We already know Facebook is harder to resist than cigare... So it's not all that surprising that Facebook is enjoyab... enjoyable! But like an addictive drug, the results sugge... network might have a sinister effect: Facebook makes you...
That's why

Science can explain a lot of things that I've always won... science!). In this case, it explains what I've known for... been unable to quite understand: Why do some folks who h... money than others seem to be less nice and more evil to ...
At 0:50, so

Cultural anthropologists who have studied teen texting a... just about instant gratification. According to Mimi Ito,... cellie habits of Japanese teens, texting those who could... everyone feel they're part of a larger social network. I... no distinct

The Emotional Wardrobe builds on the characteristics of ... clothing, and imagines a world where fashion converges w... Emotional Wardrobe is about a new genre of clothing, who... benefits are intangible and difficult to quantify .. but... emotive cha

AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... who’s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldn’t be... that one of the first—and creepiest—examples of this...
News broke

These heat maps reveal where we feel love, anger, shame ...
Image Credit: Pnas.org
December 31, 2013 7:57 AM
Rebecca Grant
... what we feel and the physical sensation of that feeling.

Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan
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Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
Click here for a slideshow of the history of computers
... eo game,” he told The Times in an exclusive interview.

There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl...
Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ...
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ...
... g of a cleve

We tend to think of reason and emotion as being two diff... it turns out that there may not be a choice between the ...
Relationships between general and emotional intelligence
CT scan showing overlaps of different general and em ...
Differe

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
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People’s nasty traits have a way of revealing themselv... networks: in writing. Or rather in how they write. That ... of how someone tweets could reveal whether he or she is ... Machiavellian, or psychopathic, according to researchers... present the

Wearable technologies currently exist in two spaces – ... pieces by artists and designers, and as engineering-driv... products that are taken to market. But, as Danielle Wild... future for wearable technologies lies in creating produc... aesthetic q

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 ...

Kissenger Devices
These devices, known as "Kissengers," allow long-distanc ...
Credit: Hooman Samani
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... of the Kissenger device. [5 Ways Love Affects the Brain]

The extremity in teenagers’ attitudes and actions coup...
But however meaningful the phone is in teenagers’ live ...
The BuddyBeads project suggests alternative ways for com ...
BuddyBeads are techno-jewelry items that facilitate non- ...
Each group

The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

What Happens in the Amygdala... Damage to Brain's Decisi...
Individuals with amygdala damage are more likely to lay ...
By Katie Moisse
DICEY RESEARCH: Damage to the amygdala encourages bad ga ...
... hen outcomes are potentially negative," De Martino s