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UK campaigners condemn âcreepyâ digital billboards that can track viewersâ responses | Privacy | The Guardian

2025-12-09T08:02:53Z

Digital billboards that can film viewersâ responses to adverts have been installed in hundreds of apartment blocks, in a move that civil liberty campaigners called âcreepy as hellâ.

âItâs going much too fastâ: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

2025-12-01T15:14:15Z

âWith most standard product development jobs, you know exactly what you just built,â said ChatGPTâs Turley âYou know how itâs going to behave. With this job, itâs the first time Iâve worked in a technology where you have to go...

Uncertainties as Generative Resources in Research through Design: Three Dynamics for Moving in a Design Space | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

2025-01-06T06:02:10Z

The strength of practice-based design research, like RtD, lies in its suitability for addressing challenges that cannot be formulated as research hypotheses [RedstrÃÂ¶m, 2020]. It helps designers to ask questions instead of solving problems ...

Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over Ã¢â¬ËexcessiveÃ¢â¬â¢ surveillance in smart devices | Smart homes | The Guardian

2024-11-08T16:48:05Z

Air fryers that gather your personal data and audio speakers Ã¢â¬Åstuffed with trackersÃ¢â¬Â are among examples of smart devices engaged in Ã¢â¬ÅexcessiveÃ¢â¬Â surveillance, according to the consumer group Which?

An Overview of Empathy - PMC

2024-09-16T07:45:02Z

Empathy is the feeling relationship in which the physician understands the patientÃ¢â¬â¢s plight as if the physician were the patient. The physician identifies with the patient and at the same time maintains a distance. Empathetic communicatio...

2024-07-10T06:37:37Z

AI and the American Smile. How AI misrepresents culture through aÃ¢â¬Â¦ | by jenka | Medium

2024-07-09T08:57:07Z

The Ifaluk of Micronesia consider emotions transactions between people. To them, anger is not a feeling of rage, a scowl, a pounding fist, or a loud yelling voice, all within the skin of one person, but a situation in which two people are e...

Microsoft can't guarantee UK data sovereignty

2024-06-24T11:47:46Z

Owen Sayers, who made the FoI request, said, "the statements from Microsoft make clear that they 100% cannot comply with UK data protection law... "They've confirmed for the first time that a guarantee of sovereignty for data at rest (which...

Ã¢â¬ËI didnÃ¢â¬â¢t want to hurt that girl. I just felt this pressure building Ã¢â¬Â¦Ã¢â¬â¢ The sociopath who learned to behave Ã¢â¬â and found happiness | Psychology | The Guardian

2024-04-08T09:53:52Z

So Gagne studied for a PhD, and became a therapist. She thinks her detachment was helpful. Ã¢â¬ÅIf you are constantly projecting your own emotions into the session, theyÃ¢â¬â¢re not going to be able to process what theyÃ¢â¬â¢re feeling.Ã¢â¬Â

Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer | Well actually | The Guardian

2024-03-22T07:38:07Z

In other fields, thereÃ¢â¬â¢s an understanding of how common it is for our actions not to line up with internal goals. In economics, revealed preference theory says that what we value is better revealed by our behaviors than our judgements. Ã¢â¬...

Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds | Business | The Guardian

2024-03-13T07:16:06Z

Ã¢â¬ÅWe found that quality of life improved as the frequency of interaction with ICTs increased, whereas quality of life deteriorated as frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies rose,Ã¢â¬Â the report said.

PeakÃ¢â¬âend rule - Wikipedia

2024-02-06T06:52:58Z

The peakÃ¢â¬âend 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 ...

2024-01-05T06:23:47Z

SCHI Lab - OWidgets

2022-09-29T13:33:49Z

Olfactory interactions and interfaces are extremely rele... of use and application contexts, from entertainment to r... supporting learning experiences to enhancing the creatio... experiences such as in virtual and augmented environments.

StoryKit: An Object-Based Media Toolkit - BBC R&D

2022-03-23T20:11:08Z

We've taken object-based media to the next level by supp... creators with tools and workflows that enable real-world... responsive object-based experiences

'I'm extremely controversial': the psychologist rethinking human emotion | Science and nature books | The Guardian

2020-09-25T12:18:21Z

How we interpret our feelings depends on where and how w... says professor Lisa Feldman Barrett - and not understand... our lives harder

2020-06-21T09:49:36Z

Can I Leave This One Out? The Effect of Dropping an Item From the SUSJUS

2017-12-16T18:00:14Z

There are times when user experience practitioners might... System Usability Scale (SUS), but there is an item that ... in their context of measurement. For example, the first ... I would like to use this system frequently.Ã¢â¬Â If the sy... one that wo

Lima Ã¢â¬â The first Cloud that respects your privacy

2017-06-15T21:32:04Z

Keep your personal files safe at home. Access them from ... the beauty of the Personal Cloud.

When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees - The Atlantic

2017-06-15T21:16:00Z

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

Why algorithms aren't working for women

2017-04-10T08:01:48Z

Algorithms are everywhere. TheyÃ¢â¬â¢re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But thereÃ¢â¬â¢s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

Why algorithms aren't working for women

2017-04-10T08:01:48Z

Inside Your UsersÃ¢â¬â¢ Minds: The Cultural Probe ÃÂ· An A List Apart Article

2017-04-10T07:21:46Z

By analyzing the results of your cultural probe, you can... of how users behave: what they love and hate, what motiv... what they do and why. Solutions based on this knowledge ... give users what they need, rather than what they say the... also help i

University attacked by its own vending machines, smart light bulbs & 5,000 IoT devices | Network World

2017-02-14T10:57:46Z

TodayÃ¢â¬â¢s cautionary tale comes from VerizonÃ¢â¬â¢s sneak p... 2017 Data Breach Digest scenario. It involves an unnamed... seafood searches, and an IoT botnet; hackers used the un... vending machines and other IoT devices to attack the uni... network.

2017-02-01T21:38:41Z

The inaugural address contains the first words uttered b... It is an untarnished moment during which the American le... presidential tone, inspire a country, put an election to... An examination of the facial expressions of the last six ... Shown here

Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms - The Local

2017-01-29T19:50:37Z

One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay ... Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack the... system, locking hundreds of guests in or out of their ro... was paid.

From yoga pants to smart shoes: The technology of touch - BBC News

2016-12-25T08:31:14Z

Imagine being able to navigate the streets just by recei... your footwear. Or feeling a tingle in your yoga tights i... position needs improvement. And what if you could feel the things you're touching as ... This is the science of haptics, the intersec

Solid

2016-12-06T14:33:06Z

Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berner... the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT and the Qatar Co... Institute. The project aims to radically change the way ... work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as ...

Human brain is predisposed to negative stereotypes, new study suggests | Science | The Guardian

2016-11-02T10:32:25Z

rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows

Text Samples

2016-10-21T08:07:33Z

Color and contrast Contrast ratios illustrated

How the Web Became Unreadable

2016-10-20T09:11:33Z

For example: AppleÃ¢â¬â¢s typography guidelines suggest tha... for a 7:1 contrast ratio. But what ratio, you might ask,... to state the guideline? ItÃ¢â¬â¢s 5.5:1. AppleÃ¢â¬â¢s guidelines for developers.

Microsoft's Internet Business Gets a New Kind of Processor | WIRED

2016-09-29T14:52:29Z

ItÃ¢â¬â¢s a typical tangle of tech acronyms. CPUs. GPUs. TP... itÃ¢â¬â¢s the subtext that matters. With cloud computing, c... Microsoft and Google and Amazon are driving so much of t... technology that those alternative chips will drive the w... apps and on

2016-04-29T11:52:12Z

2016-04-29T09:54:19Z

The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women | WIRED

2016-04-18T12:44:36Z

AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... whoÃ¢â¬â¢s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldnÃ¢â¬â¢t be... that one of the firstÃ¢â¬âand creepiestÃ¢â¬âexamples of this... News broke

The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women | WIRED

2016-04-18T12:44:36Z

Google's Nest closing smart-home company Revolv, bricking devices - Business Insider

2016-04-18T12:43:40Z

Nest, a smart-home company owned by Google's holding com... dropping support for a line of products Ã¢â¬â and will mak... existing devices completely useless. It's a move that has infuriated some customers, and rais ...

Internet mapping turned a remote farm into a digital hell | Fusion

2016-04-11T07:58:30Z

for the last 14 years, every time MaxMindÃ¢â¬â¢s database h... about the location of an IP address in the United States... identify, it has spit out the default location of a spot... from the geographic center of the country. This happens ... Which happe

How Big Data Harms Poor Communities - The Atlantic

2016-04-10T14:26:03Z

Outside the court system, Ã¢â¬Åinnocent until proven guilt... peopleÃ¢â¬â¢s due-process rights, Kerr says: Ã¢â¬ÅA right to ... to participate in oneÃ¢â¬â¢s hearing, a right to know what ... collected about me, and a right to challenge that inform... opaque data

Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji | GroupLens

2016-04-10T10:37:41Z

Hey emoji users: Did you know that when you send your fr... Nexus, they might seeÃÂ ÃÂ on their iPhone? And itÃ¢â¬â¢s not... of thing can happen for all emoji (yes, even ).ÃÂ In a pa... will be officially published at AAAI ICWSM in May, we sh... problem can

Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji | GroupLens

2016-04-10T10:37:41Z

2016-04-05T14:56:46Z

2016-03-22T21:54:11Z

This painful video shows what it was like to send an email in 1984 - ScienceAlert

2016-03-22T21:50:36Z

For those of you who remember life before the Internet, ... from the early to mid '90s, access made serious leaps fr... government and research facilities to the home. By 1996,... million people around the world were using the Internet,... million of

CrowdSignals.io: A Massive New Mobile Data Collection Campaign

2016-02-11T19:06:13Z

2016-02-07T13:27:06Z

Notes on Human Computer Interaction Ã¢â¬â Jorge Cancela

2016-01-17T13:11:40Z

This post is a collection of my notes on Human-Computer ... It is not intended to be a comprehensive guide or a syst... a collection of useful articles, links, videos, books, w... during the last years and that I have been using during ... I think the

2016-01-01T11:46:29Z

Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business

2015-12-19T12:54:15Z

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation thatÃ¢â¬â¢... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ... The glitch? They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep - BBC News

2015-11-27T22:56:13Z

Solu - A new breed of computing by Solu Machines Ã¢â¬â Kickstarter

2015-11-08T20:42:32Z

Color and cultural design considerations | Webdesigner Depot

2015-09-04T16:12:23Z

Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack - CNET

2015-08-26T21:39:58Z

n the first documented attack of its kind, the Internet ... used as part of an attack that sent out over 750,000 spa...

PLOS ONE: Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies

2015-08-18T22:12:57Z

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

Man vs. Smart House: A Cautionary Tale | The Creators Project

2015-07-09T15:36:30Z

Thomas is 70 years old. He lives a quiet life alone. Out... health, his children send him gifts to track his habits ... smart fork that counts calories, a smart cane that count... bed that monitors his sleep. But Thomas soon finds he do... told what t

Facebook 'tracks all visitors, breaching EU law' | Technology | The Guardian

2015-05-26T07:15:50Z

Moocall Sensors - SMS notification when a cow is calving

2015-04-07T19:06:03Z

The big hole in HCI research | ACM Interactions

2015-03-23T21:19:33Z

The first point I wish to make is that a lack of motor t... very worrying prospect for a scientific community. There... researchers should ask themselves whether CHI is or want... scientific conference. If not, then the reasonable quest... My argument

Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack - CNET

2015-03-10T11:29:10Z

In the first documented attack of its kind, the Internet... used as part of an attack that sent out over 750,000 spa...

The ethical blindness of algorithms - Quartz

2015-02-28T08:30:01Z

Can an algorithm be racist? ItÃ¢â¬â¢s a question that shoul... all data-driven organizations.

Results of the HCI-UX survey 2014

2015-02-27T22:28:47Z

A while back (September 2014) I ran a very short 5-minut... at UX professionals to elicit thoughts on the links betw... that of academic HCI research. The survey was framed in the following way: "This survey ...

Lab In Berkeley Accidentally Discovers Solution To Fix Color Blindness ÃÂ« CBS San Francisco

2015-02-25T12:36:43Z

Ã¢â¬ÅThe glasses work by selectively removing certain wave... red and green cones that allow them to be in essence pus... said Don McPherson, EnChromaÃ¢â¬â¢s VP of products.

Program | Courses | CHI2015

2015-02-24T20:02:01Z

BBC News - Not in front of the telly: Warning over 'listening' TV

2015-02-09T17:56:20Z

Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal i... of their smart television set.

Smartphones DonÃ¢â¬â¢t Make Us Dumb - NYTimes.com

2015-01-22T18:20:39Z

Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we canÃ¢â¬â¢t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ...

Weird Device Helps Long-Distance Lovers 'Teleport' Smooches

2014-10-08T14:52:06Z

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

BBC News - Alien attacks and Fifa 15 chants: The art of video game noise

2014-10-07T11:26:01Z

Sound design is often the unsung hero of video games. Bu... get it right, primal instincts are triggered, helping im... the action. Below, the brains behind the soundscapes of ... biggest releases discuss their art in exclusive intervie...

VIDEO: The future of wearable technologies

2014-07-16T19:59:22Z

Wearable technologies currently exist in two spaces Ã¢â¬â ... 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

Crypto weakness in smart LED lightbulbs exposes Wi-Fi passwords | Ars Technica

2014-07-15T21:13:07Z

In the latest cautionary tale involving the so-called In... white-hat hackers have devised an attack against network... lightbulbs that exposes Wi-Fi passwords to anyone in pro... the LED devices. The attack works against LIFX smart lightbulbs, which c

These heat maps reveal where we feel love, anger, shame & sadness on our bodies | VentureBeat | Science | by Rebecca Grant

2014-07-02T16:02:27Z

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.

BBC News - Microsoft working on a smart bra to measure mood

2014-06-28T17:02:41Z

Microsoft researchers have designed a smart bra that can... The prototype contains removable sensors that monitor he ...

BBC News - Microsoft working on a smart bra to measure mood

2014-06-28T17:02:41Z

Microsoft researchers have designed a smart bra that can... The prototype contains removable sensors that monitor he ...

2014-06-26T09:46:06Z

Sharp's 'Free-Form Displays' with Ultra-Thin Bezels Make New Display Shapes Possible - Mac Rumors

2014-06-20T13:42:24Z

Sharp today announced its upcoming "Free-Form Display" t... allow the company to nearly eliminate the traditional be... LCD displays. As a result, Sharp will be able to build L... any shape to conform to the display area of the intended... sharp_free_

XOX - Emotional Technologies

2014-06-20T13:15:55Z

XOX is a new emotional technology platform that enables ... to track usersÃ¢â¬â¢ emotional states, collect data and tai... experiences for both individuals and large audiences. The XOX platform comprises of a number of products and s ...

Phineas Gage neuroscience case: True story of famous frontal lobe patient is better than textbook accounts.

2014-05-08T23:43:11Z

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

Analysis of the CHI research communityÃ¢â¬â¢s knowledge map - Community Imaging Group

2014-05-03T19:02:40Z

Based on the results, we argued that: As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ... The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ... By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ... Therefore, current HCI researc

Exist ÃÂ· Understand your life.

2014-03-07T10:28:53Z

We all create data about ourselves every day. From task ... trackers to the tweets we share, our data is everywhere. Even if you're actively tracking your life, you're only ... We help you find the hidden connections in your data and ...

Analysis of the CHI research communityÃ¢â¬â¢s knowledge map - Community Imaging Group

2014-02-19T07:51:20Z

Exercise in pregnancy boosts baby brain development - health - 14 November 2013 - New Scientist

2014-01-26T09:41:05Z

What Intel's Edison Means: One Card To Smarten Up Dumb Gadgets And Connect Them All Ã¢â¬â ReadWrite

2014-01-12T13:45:30Z

IntelÃ¢â¬â¢s just-announced Edison computerÃ¢â¬âthe one the s... cardÃ¢â¬âillustrates the corollary to MooreÃ¢â¬â¢s Law. If yo... more circuits on a piece of silicon, you can also make c... smaller and smaller. And this heralds a whole new way of... computing,

Pencil | FiftyThree

2014-01-10T16:48:21Z

Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society

2014-01-10T16:41:44Z

Some of that research went back a generation. It was in ... instance, that researchers discovered that aspects of vi... Muller Lyer Illusion Comparison 3 Researchers found that Americans perceive the line with ... More recently psychologists had challe

Case-control study of the association between malignant brain tumours diagnosed between 2007 and 2009 and mobile and cordless phone use

2014-01-10T16:40:23Z

This study confirmed previous results of an association ... cordless phone use and malignant brain tumours. These fi... support for the hypothesis that RF-EMFs play a role both... and promotion stages of carcinogenesis.

Twitter / calestous: Mobile Telephone System A made ...

2014-01-05T08:49:05Z

Body Atlas Reveals Where We Feel Happiness and Shame - D-brief | DiscoverMagazine.com

2014-01-02T14:48:08Z

Red, yellow and orange show activated regions while blue... are deactivated in these maps of bodily sensations assoc... Yellow shows regions of increased sensation while blue a ... Chests puffing up with pride Ã¢â¬â and happiness felt head ... Researchers

Heat maps reveal where you feel emotions in your body

2014-01-02T14:46:24Z

Annalee Newitz on io9 neuroscience Monday 4:00pm ... lush of shame, to that warm lower-belly feeling in love.

Memex #001

2013-12-31T16:12:03Z

In 1945, Dr. Vannevar Bush published "As We May Think", ... In that article, he described an automated desk called a ... Sadly, Vannevar Bush's memex was far beyond what the ana ... Until Now! ... incomplete memex Memex #001 during construction

Smarty Ring

2013-12-23T10:40:07Z

STAY CONNECTED IN STYLE Forget tapping a screen, get instant alerts right on you ...

MediaMonkey ÃÂ» Information ÃÂ» Gold

2013-12-19T15:22:09Z

Catalog your physical CDs and use the Virtual CD feature... what CDs you own and at the same time see which subset o... CDs are copied to your hard drive. Instead of tracking y... separately, the virtual CD function gives you an integra...

Optical illusion: Shades of gray.

2013-12-13T18:54:16Z

optical illusion Which lozenge is darker: The one on top... bottom? Illustration by Dale Purves, used by permission WhatÃ¢â¬â¢s the illusion, you ask? Those two vertical lozen ...

Optical illusion: The blue and the green.

2013-12-13T18:54:01Z

Blue green spiral illusion You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orang ...

2013-12-09T19:36:27Z

Stress-buster: Microsoft bra battles emotional overeating | Crave - CNET

2013-12-03T08:10:00Z

A prototype bra from Microsoft researchers uses sensors ... wearer's mood with a goal of helping prevent stress-rela...

Is Sony's 'smart wig' even more absurd than Google Glass? | Technology | The Guardian

2013-11-29T18:43:15Z

Need a computerised toupee made of yak hair? Of course y... Beta Share 1041 3 ... One of the smart wig patent drawings

What will we learn from the fall of Facebook? | UCL Social Networking Sites & Social Science Research Project UCL UCL Social Networking Sites & Social Science Research Project

2013-11-25T08:15:05Z

kids computer Photo by LucÃÂ©lia Ribeiro (Creative Commons) The Ã¢â¬ËFall of FacebookÃ¢â¬â¢ seems an odd title given this ...

Take Two 'Normal' People, Add Money To Just One Of Them, And Watch What Happens Next

2013-10-23T21:53:31Z

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

A Numbers Man | West Space Journal

2013-10-16T15:18:17Z

Chris Dancy records nearly every detail of his life. So ... magazine has dubbed him Ã¢â¬Åthe Quantified ManÃ¢â¬Â. Using ... sensors, mobile devices and Ã¢â¬Ëlow frictionÃ¢â¬â¢ tracking ... seamlessly building a digital archive of his entire bein... Dancy consi

Remembering to forget | UTS News Room

2013-10-08T09:46:58Z

Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. Ã¢â¬ÅA lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that itÃ¢â¬â¢s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.Ã¢â¬Â And that, she says, is one of the projectÃ¢â¬â¢s aims. Ã¢â¬ÅW ...

Peripheral vision is whacked. - Imgur

2013-09-20T17:56:00Z

Peripheral vision is whacked.

Fairphone | A seriously cool smartphone. Putting social values first.

2013-09-17T20:03:46Z

Fairphone is a social enterprise. We started in 2010 as ... society, Action Aid and Schrijf-Schrijf, aimed at raisin... conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the s... minerals is fueling in the DR Congo. The campaign and re... complex sup

start [electric imp]

2013-09-07T14:41:54Z

F.T.C. Says WebcamÃ¢â¬â¢s Flaw Put UsersÃ¢â¬â¢ Lives on Display - NYTimes.com

2013-09-05T14:53:52Z

According to the F.T.C., the company, TRENDnet, told cus... products were Ã¢â¬Åsecure,Ã¢â¬Â marketing its cameras for ho... baby monitoring. In fact, the devices were compromised. ... a hacker in January 2012 exploited a security flaw and p... live feeds,

Nike+ FuelBand and Google Glass: what next for the 'quantified self'? | Technology | theguardian.com

2013-09-05T11:43:40Z

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets

Nike+ FuelBand and Google Glass: what next for the 'quantified self'? | Technology | theguardian.com

2013-09-05T11:43:40Z

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets

WeÃ¢â¬â¢re not Ã¢â¬Ëappy. Not Ã¢â¬Ëappy at all. | Government Digital Service

2013-09-05T11:42:44Z

WeÃ¢â¬â¢re in the middle of a significant change in how peo... services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and ... exploding. People should be able to use digital services wherever t ... HereÃ¢â¬â¢s how government services have been responding to ...

Putting the Person Back Into Personalization | Elizabeth F. Churchill

2013-09-05T11:33:27Z

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.

What Is Nostalgia Good For? Quite a Bit, Research Shows - NYTimes.com

2013-09-05T11:31:07Z

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when theyÃ¢â¬â¢re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

Mademethink: Leap Motion a flawed and isolated advance

2013-09-05T11:28:46Z

I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kicksta... wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money do... eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magica... interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help m... I have been

BBC News - Abraham Maslow and the pyramid that beguiled business

2013-09-01T21:04:56Z

Abraham Maslow and some examples of pyramids inspired by... Continue reading the main story Health Check Herrings - good to eat, not to inhale ... s satisfied, the desire to fulfil the next set kicks in.

About Us - OpenSignal

2013-09-01T15:10:36Z

With your help, we're creating a comprehensive database ... towers, cell phone signal strength readings, and Wi-Fi a... the world. Our goal is to become the global authority on...

BBC News - Virtual reality: Lessons from the past for Oculus Rift

2013-08-30T08:38:40Z

with excitement building for the release of a new VR hel... Rift - it is worth asking what went wrong the first time... lessons be learned?

Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet - Apr. 8, 2013

2013-04-09T18:59:58Z

Unlike Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which crawls the Web ... websites, Shodan navigates the Internet's back channels.... Shodan runs 24/7 and collects information on about 500 m ... It's stunning what can be found with a simple search on ... Shodan sear

Lovebird is ready for beta testing | Not The User's Fault

2013-03-28T18:56:25Z

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

Priivacy Problems Over An Online Eye | Stuff.co.nz

2013-03-24T07:26:41Z

Analysts ABI Research expect the wearable computer marke... exponentially, predicting there will be 485 million ship... 2018. A Microsoft executive said recently he expected we would ...

Wanna Play? Computer Gamers Help Push Frontier Of Brain Research : NPR

2013-03-14T07:07:59Z

Enlarge image Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ... EyeWire People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ... Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ...

Robot & Frank: vision of the future? | Film | The Guardian

2013-03-11T09:57:19Z

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e... Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ... Share 14 inShare1 ... Robot & Frank

Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? | Technology | The Guardian

2013-03-10T14:21:38Z

The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now bei... volunteers, meaning you might already have been surrepti... uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be?

BBC News - Star Trek 'holodeck' in the living room?

2013-03-09T16:44:50Z

With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV... technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards... closer to real life. Whether it be a cave, an igloo or a theatre, virtual rea ... Full 360-degree screens are now capable of taking a

Can humour make students love statistics? - Vol. 22, Part 3 ( March 2009)

2013-03-06T00:42:37Z

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

MIT wants future US Army uniforms to contain 'functional fibres' (Wired UK)

2013-03-05T09:43:35Z

The gold fibres in the uniform, the product of years of ... actually do that communications work yet. Currently, the... a uniform," Joannopoulos tells Wired.com: They're about ... diameter, and Joannopoulos wants to scale down to 100 mi... The fibres

10 amazing scientific facts about lists | Dean Burnett | Science | guardian.co.uk

2013-03-05T09:40:23Z

People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the i... any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a ... Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science sect... most popular articles in recent months is a list. But wh... popular? We

BBC News - Black Hornet spycam is a 'lifesaver' for British troops.

2013-02-13T23:44:03Z

BBC News - 'Every new car' connected to web by 2014

2013-02-12T11:10:27Z

What this means is app-culture infiltrating the dashboar... space finder to a way to get coupons for local restauran... that can pop up on the windscreen. It all relies on the car being connected to the internet ... The connected car is already the thir

Making the wearable tech revolution a reality - Fortune Tech

2013-02-09T13:56:57Z

FORTUNE -- The key tech battle of the current decade wil... we wear. Technology is crawling out of our bags and pock... bodies in the form of wearables. An increasing number of... finding their homes on our wrists, necks, ears and eyes.... and the sma

About | Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

2013-02-09T09:27:30Z

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are - YouTube

2013-02-07T16:34:21Z

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also... ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "powe... standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't ... can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain... have an imp

U.S. researchers map emotional intelligence of the brain

2013-01-31T09:30:25Z

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

Inexpensive home-brewed prostheses created using 3D printers

2013-01-31T09:28:38Z

According to the International Society of Prosthetics an... there are some 32 million amputees in the world today, a... Eric Ronning's ReHand, made mostly out of parts fabr ... Eric Ronning's ReHand won US$10,000 at UW-Madison's ... Liam ou

The Quest to Create A Bionic Eye Gets Clearer - WSJ.com

2013-01-30T13:00:51Z

Researchers have been pursuing the development of such a... decades, in some cases spending hundreds of millions of ... engineering challenges. One device designed to help peop... condition is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval. It is kn... Second Sigh

More Joys of Electronic Medical Records | WhiteCoat's Call Room

2013-01-23T08:40:01Z

So I tried something that sounded easy when I thought of... technically quite difficult when I tried to actually do ... the number of times I clicked on different check boxes a... different screens I had to navigate in order to document... This is eas

iBeam.it Ã¢â¬â FAQ

2013-01-21T08:59:25Z

Disney's new augmented reality toys are promising, but frustrating | The Verge

2013-01-11T10:33:13Z

Disney is launching augmented reality toys with a line o... in October; from there, it'll expand into other characte... then, it's keeping a tight wrap on images of what it's d... weren't allowed to take shots or video. We did learn tha... to Disney I

Camlistore

2013-01-11T09:33:24Z

a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content a work in progress Open Source (Apache licensed) an acronym for "Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed ... ... neither "Cloud" nor "Local". happily both.

f.lux: software to make your life better

2013-01-10T21:24:43Z

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie ... Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and ... During the day, computer screens look goodÃ¢â¬âthey're des ... f.lux ... use it just because it makes your computer look better.

f.lux: software to make your life better

2013-01-10T21:24:43Z

Tethercell: Control battery-operated devices from your smartphone or tablet | Indiegogo

2013-01-10T18:44:48Z

StickNFind- Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers | Indiegogo

2013-01-10T18:33:21Z

Tongue and Tech: The Many Emotions for Which English Has No Words - Megan Garber - The Atlantic

2013-01-09T06:01:31Z

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

A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because of a Dumb Pilot (Updated)

2013-01-04T17:14:22Z

A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because ... (Updated)Update: Thanks to Gizmodo reader, Randy, we hav... on how this happened. As you can see in that picture, th... the cockpit door lock switch are no more than 10cm apart... door (the s

N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91 - NYTimes.com

2012-12-14T09:28:04Z

Ã¢â¬ÅWhat IÃ¢â¬â¢m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale... told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. Ã¢â¬ÅI poked my four fi... and for whatever reason Ã¢â¬â I didnÃ¢â¬â¢t know Ã¢â¬â I pulled... and drew four lines. I said: Ã¢â¬ËGolly! Now I have four l... could be wi

Official Google Africa Blog: Understanding barriers to mobile Internet adoption in Kenya and Ghana

2012-12-10T20:08:27Z

While mobile phones have become commonplace, mobile Inte... lagged. In 2011, for instance, mobile Internet adoption ... compared to 54% in Europe. WeÃ¢â¬â¢ve been working to bette... nature and root causes of this dynamic. Earlier this yea... with iHub R

Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter!

2012-12-07T08:24:04Z

Here comes the first real alternative to iPhone and Android - Quartz

2012-12-03T08:15:05Z

If you talk to enough people at the Finnish mobile start... point it occurs to you that the company it most resemble... Sailfish, Jolla insists, will become a legitimate altern ... Ã¢â¬ÅChinaÃ¢â¬Â¦ is the most dynamic smartphone marketÃ¢â¬âitÃ¢â¬ ... Jolla canno

Misfit Shine: an elegant, wireless activity tracker | Indiegogo

2012-11-28T08:19:44Z

Misfit Shine: an elegant, wireless activity tracker | Indiegogo

2012-11-28T08:19:44Z

Designing Interactions

2012-11-23T20:41:07Z

'Pinch' connects multiple smartphones and tablets together to make a display | The Verge

2012-11-07T09:17:44Z

Not content with synchronizing your phones to make one g... Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have d... an interface that lets you connect multiple devices toge... giant disjointed display. Although the technology behind... remains a m

Welsh Government | Wales first in the world to legislate for play

2012-11-07T09:17:16Z

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

Oculus VR | Oculus Rift - The Virtual Reality Gaming Headset

2012-11-07T09:07:26Z

The Oculus Rift headset is the cutting edge of virtual r... games. Be part of history by getting your own Oculus Rif...

(84) Bluetooth Gloves - buy at Firebox.com

2012-11-02T13:42:45Z

New! Bluetooth Gloves Bluetooth Gloves Talk to the Hand

Summly

2012-11-02T11:47:27Z

Summly's user interface is state-of-the-art with no butt... minimalist approach.. Press anywhere on a summary to rev... 'Summflower' which allows for sharing of summaries as su... saving of favourite summaries for offline viewing. Swipe... full articl

BBC News - OpenDyslexic font gains ground with help of Instapaper

2012-10-08T15:48:32Z

OpenDyslexic font The OpenDyslexic font is designed to g... letters to prevent the characters rotating in readers' minds

How to Motivate Your Employees [infographic] - Salesforce Blog

2012-09-30T13:09:11Z

Motivating employees isnÃ¢â¬â¢t as simple as paying them mo... complex and lots of different factors contribute to thei... job satisfaction, and what motivates people to do their ... Happiness, career aspirations, challenges, money, stress... that contri

Scrollbars Through the History - Imgur

2012-09-28T19:04:30Z

Scrollbars Through the History

Ten... phones for seniors Ã¢â¬Â¢ Reg Hardware

2012-09-18T20:18:23Z

Cycell Easyphone RH Numbers Brainchild of designer and entrepreneur Tom Sunderland, ... CyCell uses a printer from the Japanese company Mimaki t ... Cycell Easyphone

Sight on Vimeo

2012-09-04T06:51:51Z

UW CSE News ÃÂ» Ã¢â¬ÅWireless Charging Technology Ã¢â¬â One Step Closer to RealityÃ¢â¬Â

2012-08-31T00:58:46Z

Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC. WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

Battle for the lounge room

2012-08-19T21:22:36Z

11:36PM Sunday Aug 19, 2012 1,220 online now See today's paper Subscribe ... ly design experiences to be the same on the all screens.

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Video on TED.com

2012-08-16T07:15:29Z

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help... interact with the world of data -- including a deep look... device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In a... Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthS... possibiliti

Beautiful short film shows a frightening future filled with Google Glass-like devices | VentureBeat

2012-08-16T07:15:14Z

HereÃ¢â¬â¢s an amazing eight-minute-long short film we came... art school grads Daniel Lazo and Eran May-raz as a final... the short shows a not-too-unrealistic future wherein we ... with contact lens-like devices that connect us to the cl... from games

Com-Me Ã¢â¬â Community Media Toolkit

2012-08-06T11:59:52Z

A collection of hardware and software components providi... The components of the toolkit include: Com-Phone a multimedia narrative application for a m ... Com-Tablet a tablet-based media repository and Com-C ... ... loads where applicable, are a

USC students building a working Holodeck | Crave - CNET

2012-08-06T11:52:35Z

"Welcome to Project Holodeck, would you like to make my ... (Credit: Project Holodeck) Infiltrating the Borg or having dinner with Deanna Troi ... Project Holodeck is exactly what it sounds like -- a ver ...

New GPS museum app launching in Victoria promises to reshape gallery-going experience | Arts | National Post

2012-08-02T07:44:41Z

Finding your way around a museum Ã¢â¬â or a mall or airpor... Ã¢â¬â is about to be as simple as using the GPS on your phone. As of Aug. 1, the Royal BC Museum in Victoria will becom ...

Troy Hunt: Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco

2012-07-30T14:29:41Z

Let me set the scene for this post by sharing a simple t... night: Twitter: @troyhunt Passwords are stored in a secure way. ... Ok then, thatÃ¢â¬â¢s about as many security misdemeanours a ...

Piano Staircase | The Fun Theory

2012-07-30T10:44:50Z

Ã¢â¬ÂTake 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

iRobot introduces telepresence doctor

2012-07-27T16:34:38Z

In a medical emergency, seconds count. But if the doctor... another part of the hospital or even another part of tow... seconds can stretch dangerously. If only the doctor coul... at once, then countless lives could be saved. This is on... The idea of

Dickens London Trails iPhone app: money, marketing and mobile ÃÂ« The Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture

2012-07-27T16:28:49Z

Dickens London Trails is an iPhone app that enables user... London as characters from DickensÃ¢â¬â¢ fiction would have.... through the streets of London on a series of unexpected ... encounters. You also discover more about DickensÃ¢â¬â¢ even... Your guides

Dickens London Trails iPhone app: money, marketing and mobile ÃÂ« The Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture

2012-07-27T16:28:49Z

Using Twitter To Identify Psychopaths - Forbes

2012-07-23T11:31:20Z

PeopleÃ¢â¬â¢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

KISSENGER: KISS Messenger Robot

2012-07-23T11:29:09Z

Interactive Multimedia Technology: Musings about NUI, Perceptive Pixel and Microsoft, Rapid Creative Prototyping (Lots of video and links) Revised

2012-07-22T21:27:23Z

It just might be the right time for everyone to brush up... tech skills. iPads and touch-phones are ubiquitous. Touc... interactive whiteboards and displays are in schools and ... Microsoft's Windows 8 and the news that the company rece... Han's compa

CELINELATULIPE.COM

2012-07-22T21:26:35Z

New Design Practices for Touch-free Interactions | UX Magazine

2012-07-20T22:00:43Z

Touch interaction has become practically ubiquitous in d... and that has changed users' expectations and the way UX ... about humanÃ¢â¬âcomputer interaction (HCI). Now, touch-fre... Natural Language Interaction (NLI) are bleeding into the... mainstream

Cognitive walk-through - British Airways Business Life. Business advice and inspiration, insider tips from the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s top CEOs, analysts and entrepreneurs.

2012-07-19T11:23:16Z

Problems of human-computer interaction become crucial wh... question is a potential purchaser trying to engage with ... an internet shopping site. These days customer interface... Walk-through first referred to a physical tour of a faci ... Its key asp

Empowering Technology: Mobile Phone Access Reaches Three Quarters Of PlanetÃ¢â¬â¢s Population

2012-07-18T18:13:16Z

The World Bank and infoDev released a study yesterday ti... Ã¢â¬ÅAround three-quarters of the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s inhabitants no ... HereÃ¢â¬â¢s an excerpt from the Executive Summary: Ã¢â¬ÅWith some 6 billion mobile subscriptions in use world ... The developing world is

Put the human back into engineering | Aging In Place Technology Watch

2012-07-16T11:48:06Z

The product user interface of today can madden the senio... am looking at the console of a Volvo right now. Mulling ... SOURCE/Push Scan knob -- turn it to switch from FM to AM... the channels, PUSH again to stop scanning. This is an e... Why must we

BBC News - Smartphone to help blind people goes on sale

2012-07-13T22:17:45Z

A smartphone designed for blind people has been launched. Georgie, as the device is known, has a voice-assisted to ... The phone was designed by blind husband-and-wife team Ro ... It was named after Mrs Wilson-Hinds' first guide dog.

BBC News - Smartphone to help blind people goes on sale

2012-07-13T22:17:45Z

Apple and HTC in race to put light field cameras in your smartphone | Stuff magazine

2012-06-28T09:19:00Z

Light field cameras Ã¢â¬â which let you adjust the focus o... According to DigiTimes, Taiwan's Industrial Technology R ... Apple is also investigating light field camera technolog ... But there's a way to go before Lytro tech finds its way ... Still, ther

DailyDOOH ÃÂ» Blog Archive ÃÂ» LocaModa Takes Wiffiti To The Classroom

2012-06-03T13:34:01Z

BBC - Newsbeat - Bouncers 'checking Facebook on phones' as identification

2012-05-18T11:34:00Z

Some bouncers have been demanding people hand over their... they can check Facebook accounts, Newsbeat has been told. It's claimed that it is to make sure the person is who t ...

BBC News - Perfume-puffing robot sniffs out social media mentions

2012-05-15T09:40:04Z

BBC News - The robot that reads your mind to train itself

2012-05-15T09:35:39Z

VSD: home

2012-05-09T18:47:05Z

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 ...

2012-04-28T21:42:21Z

QR Code Usage In Japan ÃÂ« Blog

2012-04-28T21:39:27Z

HereÃ¢â¬â¢s a nice example. On one morning, I was walking t... via the underground pass, and I noticed a new Disney pos... Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Stitch. Notice the eyes a ...

HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product -- Engadget

2012-04-23T18:41:36Z

An HTC phone starts out somewhere between four months an... reaching to the ABS block mockup stage. During this time... out the next best way to put the phone together, as well... best weight and the best components for certain models, ... size of the

Ofcom | A nation addicted to smartphones

2012-04-20T14:01:20Z

New Ofcom research reveals the extent to which the UK ha... to smartphones, with people confessing to using them eve... dining table to the bathroom and bedroom. Over a quarter of adults (27 per cent) and almost half o ... Most (59 per cent) have acquir

Why the Mobile experience shouldn't equal desktop-lite - raymosley's posterous

2012-04-20T13:57:05Z

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

Managing Distraction: How and Why to Ignore Your Inbox - Forbes

2012-04-20T11:56:01Z

TodayÃ¢â¬â¢s relentless email flood could steer you away fr... and even out of work entirely if you donÃ¢â¬â¢t learn defen... That sounds obvious until you hear that a British study ... all information workers respond to an e-mail within 60 m... ThatÃ¢â¬â¢s no

A Texas University's Mind-Boggling Database Of Teens' Daily Text Messages, Emails, and IMs Over Four Years - Forbes

2012-04-20T11:55:29Z

Marion Underwood calls her academic study, Ã¢â¬ÅThe Blackb... title that would work equally well is Ã¢â¬ÅPanopticon, Jr.... four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental... professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, ... text messag

BBC News - Dual-focus contact lens prototypes ordered by Pentagon

2012-04-15T17:45:27Z

The Pentagon has put in an order for prototype contact l... users a much wider field of vision. The lenses are designed to be paired with compact heads ... Much bulkier HUDs are already deployed by the US Army an ...

if:book: Back to the Future -- In honor of Encyclopedia Britannica giving up its print edition

2012-04-15T17:42:14Z

These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan K... the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work wit... the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the ide... Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the... The most in

if:book: Back to the Future -- In honor of Encyclopedia Britannica giving up its print edition

2012-04-15T17:42:14Z

Designers DonÃ¢â¬â¢t Like UCD - Hidden Gems

2012-04-11T14:46:27Z

if user-centred design principles are missing from proje... because designers donÃ¢â¬â¢t want them there in the first place

face.com developers site ÃÂ» Documentation

2012-04-02T16:41:19Z

Thanks for checking out face.com. We've opened up our AP... In a nutshell: We offer services for detecting, recognizing, and ta ... Face.com's services are offered for FREE with rate l ... ... ou to, say, recognize Facebook users in Flickr photos

bandwidth (tecznotes)

2012-03-06T19:21:47Z

STOPPED CLOCK ILLUSION - YouTube

2012-02-26T06:20:49Z

STOPPED CLOCK ILLUSION

Clear is a Simple List App With Big Potential for Multitouch

2012-02-15T08:21:41Z

Clear is hands-down worth picking up if youÃ¢â¬â¢re interes... and have any need for a simple list-making-and-completin... beyond its immediate worth, I think that it could signal... ItÃ¢â¬â¢s roughly five years into the multitouch revolution ... I think tha

Study: We Love Facebook Because It Tricks Us Into Thinking We're Doing Something Important

2012-02-12T14:44:39Z

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

Microsoft's App Was Made For Walking Ã¢â¬â But Is It Racist? : NPR

2012-02-08T09:32:23Z

Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports... The word "g

Gallery of Data Visualization - Timelines

2012-01-20T13:47:26Z

This page is an annotated visual gallery of some timeline designs from their origin to today.

Gallery of Data Visualization - Timelines

2012-01-20T13:47:26Z

This page is an annotated visual gallery of some timeline designs from their origin to today.

Backbone.js

2012-01-10T21:12:00Z

When working on a web application that involves a lot of... the first things you learn is to stop tying your data to... too easy to create JavaScript applications that end up a... jQuery selectors and callbacks, all trying frantically t... With Backbo

BBC News - HTML 5 new target for cybercriminals

2012-01-07T10:20:05Z

Some of the threats for the coming year are lower-tech -... stickers placed over the QR codes used by firms to allow... QR codes typically appear on posters. Once scanned with ... Train stations, for example, use QR codes to allow passe ... But cybercr

How Do You Make A Robot That People Will Talk To? Make It As Cute As Wall-E | Co.Design

2012-01-04T18:09:07Z

Boxie, a robot created at MIT Media Lab, relies on adora... artificial intelligence to meet its goals. Cuteness is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It ...

How Do You Make A Robot That People Will Talk To? Make It As Cute As Wall-E | Co.Design

2012-01-04T18:09:07Z

Boxie, a robot created at MIT Media Lab, relies on adora... artificial intelligence to meet its goals. Cuteness is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It ...

Handy Elephant - Instant Productivity for Relationship Management | About us

2012-01-04T17:12:20Z

Why did we build Handy Elephant? Individuals and businesses devote increasing amounts of ... Yet, plenty of time is wasted, as they do not know which ...

Digital Desk by Pierre Wellner

2012-01-04T13:38:06Z

0:10 0:50 1:10 1:50 ... .w.m.rauterberg//presentations/Build-It_Story/sld002.htm

Scientists to study psychological benefits of birdsong | Environment | guardian.co.uk

2011-12-21T13:09:30Z

Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon. Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ... The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...

Google Currents - Yet another contribution to the UI-fragmentation of Android - MIN MING

2011-12-14T10:03:00Z

Google just released Google Currents (what's up with the... supposed to be "kind of" like Flipboard, except that it ... Google also released an update to Google Maps some weeks ... Google, here is the problem: If you cannot make the UI o ...

BBC News - US senator calls for answers on phone 'snooping'

2011-12-04T05:37:41Z

The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a sn... called to account by a US Senator. Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it t ... Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everyth ... Carrier IQ said its software helped d

TeaDipMOV - YouTube

2011-12-02T11:03:16Z

A List Apart: Articles: Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design

2011-11-16T11:31:08Z

We might not like to admit it but deception is deeply en... To fill the gap, darkpatterns.org was created in August ... If we put aside our moral quibbles letÃ¢â¬â¢s put ourselves ... LetÃ¢â¬â¢s continue a while as evil web designers: perhaps ... ... ominent

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

2011-11-09T16:09:00Z

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Futur ... My problem is the opposite, really Ã¢â¬â this vision, from ... ... or anything. I just hope to suggest

BBC News - About Time: The science of telling the time

2011-10-30T08:30:15Z

Time zones sometimes seem positively eccentric, affected... political, geographical and social changes in the real w... But as irregular as they are, if you want to divide the ... Our science reporter Rebecca Morelle has been finding ou ...

Diffusion of innovations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2011-10-24T11:23:25Z

Diffusion of Innovations is a theory that seeks to expla... what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultur... a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory i... Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the proce... innovation

Technology adoption lifecycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2011-10-24T11:22:42Z

Rogers' bell curve The technology adoption lifecycle model describes the ad ... The demographic and psychological (or "psychographic") p ... The report summarised the categories as: ... , had small farms and capital, oldest and least educated

ProvenModels - diffusion of innovations - Everett M. Rogers

2011-10-24T11:21:44Z

Everett M. Rogers is widely known as the inventor of the... InnovationÃ¢â¬Â theory from his research on how farmers ad... innovations. After pursuing a degree in agriculture, Rog... in Sociology and Statistics at Iowa State University (19... Rogers revi

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works - IEEE Spectrum

2011-10-18T17:03:56Z

google self-driving robotic car Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are ... Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged ...

Funf | Open Sensing Framework

2011-10-17T13:14:00Z

The Funf Open Sensing Framework is an extensible sensing... processing framework for mobile devices, developed at th... The core concept is to provide an open source, reusable ... functionalities, enabling the collection, uploading, and... wide range

Why indoor navigation is so hard - O'Reilly Radar

2011-10-12T18:33:37Z

Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone ... and get instant directions from your current location to... world? It's kind of foggy for me, too. In fact, I'm so used to relying on my smartphone that I ... The answer is "yes," of course. B

Moods on Twitter Follow Biological Rhythms, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

2011-09-29T23:09:07Z

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

A Brief History of the Emoticon

2011-09-22T12:52:10Z

Did you know the emoticon is almost 30 years old? Twenty... Fast-forward and the simple smiley has evolved Ã¢â¬â some ... To mark this anniversary, weÃ¢â¬â¢ve taken an abridged look ... 1. The Olden Days ... Thumbnail image courtesy of Laihiuyeung Ryanne

Microsoft details new Windows 8 file copy and move UI [video] | WinRumors

2011-09-20T13:35:29Z

Copy, moving, renaming and deleting make up around 50% o... usage according to MicrosoftÃ¢â¬â¢s Windows 7 telemetry dat... 8, we want to make sure that using these core file manag... which we collectively refer to as Ã¢â¬Åcopy jobs,Ã¢â¬Â is a ... experience,

Concerns that proposed 4G broadband network might disable GPS

2011-09-12T09:11:10Z

Broadband communications and Global Positioning Systems ... technologies happily used by many walkers as navigation ... the still essential map and compass. And - as many smartphone users will testify - these two ... But this could change if a new 4G m

GENESYS: An Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation System - YouTube

2011-08-28T20:59:05Z

wasbuxton Loading... 175 views Uploaded by wasbuxton on Aug 22, 2011 ... ced the HCI Community. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 7 - 12.

Sketchpad - YouTube

2011-08-28T20:56:31Z

wasbuxton Loading... 8 views Uploaded by wasbuxton on Aug 24, 2011 ... http://billbuxton.com/LincolnLab.pdf

Tweet-a-Prisoner: Social Media and Prisoners ÃÂ« Clare Hooper's Blog

2011-08-23T11:00:36Z

A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro... HeÃ¢â¬â¢s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ... (Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ... Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ... So I was ab

Police kill mobile phone service to squelch protest Ã¢â¬Â¢ The Register

2011-08-15T15:12:39Z

In response to a threatened protest in its subway system... authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service i... stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known l...

Skinput: Appropriating the Skin as an Interactive Canvas | August 2011 | Communications of the ACM

2011-07-26T14:39:12Z

Skinput is a technology that appropriates the skin as an... analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through t... Specifically, we resolve the location of finger taps on ... using a novel sensor array worn as an armband.

Ã¢â¬ÂªPass-Them-Around: Collaborative Use of Mobile Phones for Photo Sharing (CHI 2011)Ã¢â¬Â¬Ã¢â¬Â - YouTube

2011-07-25T22:41:56Z

Pass-Them-Around is a phone-based application that allow... collocated people to share photos using the metaphor of ... photos around. The prototype encourages people to share ... use them interchangeably while discussing photos face-to... prototype s

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2011-07-25T21:46:07Z

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What Apple Has That Google DoesnÃ¢â¬â¢t - An Auteur - NYTimes.com

2011-07-24T20:11:49Z

Two years ago, the technology blogger John Gruber presen... Auteur Theory of Design,Ã¢â¬Â at the Macworld Expo. Mr. Gr... The auteur, a film director who both has a distinctive v ... Ã¢â¬ÅThe quality of any collaborative creative endeavor te ... Two years a

The Internet of Things [Infographic] Ã¢â¬â Tech News and Analysis

2011-07-18T20:20:39Z

In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Int... number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks ... number of connected devices and gizmos, ranging from tel... machines. Folks at Cisco have put together this infograp... the growth

Facebook Export - Export Your Facebook Data

2011-07-03T21:41:18Z

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to... Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not s... about you. You can then use this xml file to import your... services and websites that support the Facebook Export (...

The traveler's vade mecum: or ... - Google Books

2011-06-18T14:32:03Z

ÃÂ ÃÂ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium

2011-06-14T16:06:46Z

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ... Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ... The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ... 1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ... Industr

WAI-ARIA Overview

2011-06-13T11:58:05Z

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

Of Data Scientists, Big Data, the City and Dancers ÃÂ« Rev Dan Catt's Blog

2011-06-03T07:45:37Z

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to sayÃ¢â¬Â¦ You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

This Guy Has My MacBook

2011-06-01T08:22:10Z

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Hidden - The most advanced theft tracking software for your Mac.

2011-06-01T08:21:12Z

When you activate tracking, Hidden will locate your stol... anywhere on the planet, collect photos of the thief and ... the computer in use. (We also collect lots of nerdy netw... but we wonÃ¢â¬â¢t bore you with the details!)

BBC News - Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time, study says

2011-05-21T09:02:19Z

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ... The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ... The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ... The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ...

30 excellent free ux tools ÃÂ«

2011-05-13T15:22:09Z

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Lost Garden: Game Design Logs

2011-05-13T15:14:08Z

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

Android And Chrome: Anywhere And Everywhere

2011-05-11T10:20:34Z

Google is approaching a watershed moment in its internal... time is nearly at hand when they will have to decide onc... Android is, what Chrome OS is, and where they are both g... to say it has not been internally decided and even worke... The hint is

sabredav - SabreDAV is a WebDAV framework for PHP - Google Project Hosting

2011-05-05T15:28:59Z

SabreDAV allows you to easily add WebDAV support to a PH... Feature list: Fully WebDAV compliant Supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS/X, DavFSv ... ... CalDAV ctag, CalDAV-proxy.

Email: How do you manage it? ÃÂ« Beki's Blog

2011-05-05T09:41:31Z

I was just recently asked how I dealt with my email. Tha... * I take reassurance knowing that others clearly canÃ¢â¬â¢t ... * When I think its going to distract me, I quit my mail ... * When reading email I try to decide whether a task can ... ... What do

Self-Powering, Wireless Energy Sensors Join the Internet | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

2011-05-01T20:27:56Z

EnOcean's self-powering sensors -- found inside these sw... Humans are inherently inefficient creatures. We leave li ... And despite the advances in computing power over the pas ... Ã¢â¬ÅMost buildings today are dumb,Ã¢â¬Â says EnOcean Chairm ... ... through

IBM Research | | arun_kumar | WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web)

2011-04-05T08:16:47Z

WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web) The World Wide Telecom Web (also referred to as The Spok ... The World Wide Telecom Web Past and Present Collaborators: ... Related Publications are available here

Precisely Defining the World's Emoticons - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

2011-03-10T08:25:43Z

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... unicode.jpg

www.2-sight.com

2011-02-14T14:13:30Z

The device consists of a tiny camera and transmitter mou... an implanted receiver, and an electrode-studded array th... the retina with a microtack the width of a human hair. A... The camera on the glasses captures an image and sends th ... Second Sigh

ifttt: The startup with the crazy name aims to automate the Internet

2011-01-25T20:57:43Z

ifttt: The startup with the crazy name aims to automate ... Have you ever wished that you could call in status updat ...

Video - Artist has camera implanted on head - The Sydney Morning Herald

2010-12-04T08:51:16Z

Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen - tech - 26 November 2010 - New Scientist

2010-11-27T14:55:13Z

Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering ... construct a "tactile" touchscreen Ã¢â¬â a display that use... to convince users they are actually touching the ridges,... of a displayed image. Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion

Nokia's New "Situations" App Makes Phones Self-Aware

2010-11-27T14:50:07Z

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Nokia's New "Situations" App Makes Phones Self-Aware

2010-11-27T14:50:07Z

Smartphone app monitors your every move - tech - 26 November 2010 - New Scientist

2010-11-27T14:49:52Z

Jigsaw figures out what you are doing by monitoring your... microphone, GPS and accelerometer for patterns character... activities - and it could be set to send the results to ... sites. More importantly, Jigsaw can log how active you are each ...

Smartphone app monitors your every move - tech - 26 November 2010 - New Scientist

2010-11-27T14:49:52Z

Google Docs Now Syncs With Microsoft Office

2010-11-22T18:09:41Z

Launching in beta today, Google Cloud Connect is an add-... syncs documents, spreadsheets and presentations from Off... 2010 with the Ã¢â¬ÅGoogle cloud.Ã¢â¬Â In other words, it tak... desktop and makes a backup copy in Google Docs, gives it... constantly

YouTube - 3D Video Capture with Kinect

2010-11-15T09:00:28Z

By combining the color and the depth image captured by t... Kinect, one can project the color image back out into sp... "holographic" representation of the persons or objects t... No project page yet, but it will go up on my regular web ... Based on th

Courses > Human-Computer Interaction (10-11)

2010-11-13T08:42:04Z

Weird huh ? This robot is used to mimic a remote users facial moveme ...

Courses > Human-Computer Interaction (10-11)

2010-11-13T08:42:04Z

Weird huh ? This robot is used to mimic a remote users facial moveme ...

Kinect by Microsoft Keeps You Entertained Hands Free - NYTimes.com

2010-11-07T00:44:31Z

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 ... What kept e

Design Without Designers - Core77

2010-11-04T09:31:16Z

Consider Google. In a well-publicized move, a senior des... recently quit, stating that Google had no interest in or... design. Google, it seems, relies primarily upon test res... skill or judgment. Want to know whether a design is effe... Google can

Dawn of a New Day ÃÂ« Ray Ozzie

2010-11-04T09:16:47Z

Imagining A Ã¢â¬ÅPost-PCÃ¢â¬Â World

The Bionic Eye That Helps The Blind See Again | Gadgets And Gizmos

2010-11-04T08:29:37Z

A bionic eye implant has been shown to give blind men an... The technology is quite incredible. A three millimetre s ... However, as impressive as the technology is, the impact ... The results have been tagged as astonishing by eye surge ... ... suffere

Expedia on how one extra data field can cost $12m | Sales & Marketing | silicon.com

2010-11-03T11:42:56Z

By Nick Heath, 1 November 2010 16:15 NEWS Online travel firm Expedia has found that data analytics ... Facebook ... e that what we are doing is worth something?'," he said.

What is Amazon's approach to product development and product management? - Quora

2010-11-03T11:41:34Z

There is an approach called "working backwards" that is ... Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rath... with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers ... For new initiatives a product manager typically starts b ... If the bene

Molly | The open source mobile portal

2010-10-28T11:30:30Z

Molly is a framework for the rapid development of inform... portals targeted at mobile internet devices. The framewo... Ã¢â¬Åbatteries includedÃ¢â¬Â philosophy, featuring a wide va... applications and connectors to common and standards-base... including t

Email: How do you manage it? ÃÂ« Beki's Blog

2010-10-27T17:43:21Z

I was just recently asked how I dealt with my email. Tha... question. HereÃ¢â¬â¢s what I do in no particular order, wha...

Connected Devices: Does the iPad Change Everything? | Nielsen Wire

2010-10-23T19:32:12Z

The growing popularity of connected devices Ã¢â¬â especial... tablet computer, the iPad Ã¢â¬â are starting to change the... media. And with sales of these devices expected to be a ... otherwise lackluster holiday shopping season, everyone, ... The Nielsen

Popular Science Feature - Chessboard Optical Illusion

2010-10-08T16:34:55Z

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s... This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ... This is sim

Inside IPhone 4.0's Multitasking - PCWorld

2010-09-17T15:02:37Z

When people complain that the iPhone doesn't do multitas... necessarily mean they're desperate for a bunch of apps t... iPhone simultaneously. (Sometimes they do; more on that ... a major productivity hurdle on the iPhone is the fact th... So when App

The Future of Internet Search - Project Syndicate

2010-09-16T09:07:18Z

This all happened a couple of years ago Ã¢â¬â just before ... search entirely and handed that part of its business ove... Also around that time, Bill Gates uttered one of the sma... has ever said: Ã¢â¬ÅThe future of search is verbs.Ã¢â¬Â But ... To me, the

Intel testing context-aware API for smartphones and tablet PCs, teams with Fodor on dynamic travel app -- Engadget

2010-09-16T09:04:54Z

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Disney to Propose Standards for Web-Connected Toys

2010-09-13T20:39:02Z

Flood Lite - AppleÃ¢â¬â¢s Attention to Detail

2010-08-26T12:17:49Z

In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a Ã¢â¬ÅBreathing S... The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breathe ... The other day, I noticed that my friendÃ¢â¬â¢s Dell laptop ... ItÃ¢â¬â¢s interesting how a lot of companies try to copy Ap ... Now if you

Deploying Office Web Apps in the Enterprise - Microsoft Office Web Apps - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

2010-08-23T10:01:22Z

Fundamentally, our system is designed to be run across t... web front end and the back-end (commonly known as the "a... in SharePoint parlance). FeandAppServerDiagram As illustrated by the above diagram, the front-end compo ...

Crazy Egg - build heatmaps and track clicks

2010-08-18T18:14:33Z

Heatmap View "Wow! Just wow. Crazy Egg will absolutely blow you away." Visualize your website's analytics Crazy Egg lets you visualize every click your visitors m ... Start creating heatmaps for your website. Sign-up takes ...

Wherein Japan Stuffs a GPS System Into a Pair of Eyeglasses - Techland - TIME.com

2010-08-04T08:06:29Z

The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Com... Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glas... lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the ri... The glasses house a microcomputer used to input your fin ...

Insight into Goal-Directed Movements

2010-08-04T08:04:11Z

Insight into Goal-Directed Movements: Beyond Fitts' Law Source Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 5726 archive Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Confere ... Uppsala, Sweden ... ases reveals clear differences in the movement strategy.

Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: Adding Temperature to Human-Computer Interaction

2010-08-02T23:56:03Z

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Real Time QR Code Generator PHP Function | Kerem Erkan

2010-08-02T13:11:53Z

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libqrencode

2010-08-02T13:08:34Z

First and last letter of sentence - Interesting Illusions

2010-07-31T09:28:00Z

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Augmented Spaces And Leveraging Our Data Overspills |

2010-07-14T19:28:30Z

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WarMouse Meta: the Multi-Button Joystick Mouse

2010-07-09T10:21:46Z

WarMouse Meta

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New robotic hand 'can feel'

2010-07-08T13:02:36Z

New robotic hand 'can feel' A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed ... It has been attached to the arm of a 22-year-old man who ... Researchers say it works by connecting human nerve endin ...

BBC NEWS | Health | Robots 'to revolutionise surgery'

2010-07-08T13:01:17Z

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A9.com - Innovations in Search Technologies - SnapTell

2010-06-18T12:08:53Z

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Magazine Preview - Smarter Than You Think - I.B.M.'s Supercomputer to Challenge 'Jeopardy!' Champions - NYTimes.com

2010-06-18T09:43:28Z

or the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been dev... expect will be the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s most advanced Ã¢â¬Åquestion a... machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday... Ã¢â¬â Ã¢â¬Ånatural language,Ã¢â¬Â as computer scientists call ... With Watson

zxing - Project Hosting on Google Code

2010-06-09T07:15:31Z

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What Business Card? Just Scan My QR Code | Fast Company

2010-06-09T06:56:33Z

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Apple's iPhone 4 Screen Is Better Than Your Retinas | Fast Company

2010-06-09T06:46:39Z

there were suspicions that the iPhone 4 had a super-high... Jobs just introduced it; the Retina Display. While it's in many ways a standard LCD, with 800:1 contr ... But that resolution, when used by new apps, will equal a ...

BBC News - The distraction society

2010-05-14T14:09:38Z

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Novelties - The Ever-Widening World of Tiny Projectors - NYTimes.com

2010-05-10T07:46:21Z

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ZCubes Demo

2010-05-01T17:40:12Z

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AskTog: A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts

2010-04-30T17:59:32Z

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Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better | Technology | The Observer

2010-03-23T10:41:11Z

Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better Charles Arthur investigates how the ways in which we wat ... * Digg it * Buzz up ... a video or sound clip. Or pretty much anything you want.

What Happens in the Amygdala... Damage to Brain's Decision-Making Area May Encourage Dicey Gambles: Scientific American

2010-02-09T16:37:21Z

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Empowering People through Mobile Technologies in Developing Regions

2010-02-07T12:37:40Z

Toyota's lesson: Software can be unsafe at any speed - Computerworld Blogs

2010-02-06T18:50:35Z

Auto makers, on the other hand, now function more like s... Dozens of suppliers provide sub-assemblies, many of whic... own silicon - and those interconnected systems are becom... elaborate. Can Toyota elevate software quality to the same level th ...

Main Page - Beagle

2010-02-01T11:37:13Z

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal info... find whatever you're looking for.

The Emotional Wardrobe

2010-01-21T09:33:10Z

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

Heinrich Hertz Institute - 3D Kiosk

2009-11-25T18:31:55Z

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Seamless Display - Radius320

2009-11-25T18:28:09Z

The Radius 320Ã¢âÂ¢ takes widescreen computing to a new le ... Advances in display technology have allowed 20-inch, 24- ...

textually.org: Indian telcos give voice to the illiterate

2009-10-28T11:32:20Z

Indian telcos give voice to the illiterate knINDIAN_KIDS_wideweb__470x350,0.jpg Sending text messag ... "... Since the urban market for mobile phones in India i ... The solution is called Voice SMS. It is just like leavin ... Some of the big operators Ã¢â¬â

Data.gov.uk Newspaper | Newspaper Club

2009-10-17T15:17:55Z

Data.gov.uk Newspaper Friday, October 16th 2009 Over the last three days weÃ¢â¬â¢ve been working on a side ... WeÃ¢â¬â¢ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ... And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...

Make our calendar your own! - Interaction-Design.org: HCI, Usability, Information Architecture, User Experience, and more..

2009-09-11T21:08:30Z

Q I have a website - can I display your calendar (or it... A Absolutely! Interaction-Design.org is founded on princip ...

iome, location-based digital services: Our survey reveals new generations of "Yummies" fear desert island effect

2009-09-07T17:02:18Z

A recent iome survey into the social impact of mobile ph... the UKÃ¢â¬â¢s deep rooted emotional bond with handheld devi... mobile phones a vital role in our social lives. Almost a... respondents (31 per cent) confirmed they would feel Ã¢â¬Åc... from this p

IEEE Spectrum: Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

2009-09-03T19:25:25Z

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Life imitates sci-fi as contact lens displays inch closer to reality

2009-09-03T19:24:59Z

Life imitates sci-fi as contact lens displays inch close... * 3 Comments * by Devin Coldewey on September 2, 2009 ... with machines is too compelling not to pay attention to.

Videos and Movie Clips collected by Matthias Rauterberg

2009-08-22T08:54:52Z

Videos in User-System Interaction (USI)

Welcome to Ruth Kikin-Gil's site

2009-08-19T08:03:26Z

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

What will communication devices look like in 2033?

2009-08-11T12:24:34Z

Twenty-five years after the creation of the cell phone, ... Motorola imagined what cell phones might look like in an... years. The Consumer Xperience Design (CXD) team created ... sketches that look beyond what is possible today and ima... possibiliti

Texting in the Company of Others Is OK

2009-07-25T15:52:01Z

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

Siri - The Virtual Personal Assistant

2009-07-06T11:54:53Z

Siri Technology A New Interaction Paradigm Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) represent the next ge ... Siri is the first mainstream consumer application of a V ... ... utation in the cloud and small computation in the field.

Identity Construction on Facebook: Digital Empowerment in Anchored Relationships | Science & Consciousness Review

2009-07-06T10:14:14Z

Early research on online self-presentation mostly focuse... constructions in anonymous online environments. Such stu... individuals tended to engage in role-play games and anti... behaviors in the online world. More recent studies have ... performance

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Big brother untangles baby babble

2009-07-02T09:13:23Z

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FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

2009-06-29T19:08:27Z

What's in a face? Do facial expressions reflect inner feelings? Or are the ... BY BETH AZAR Monitor staff After 30 years of renewed interest in facial expression ...

Luis von Ahn's Research

2009-06-06T16:06:05Z

Human Computation Most of my time is spent inventing novel techniques for ... One family of techniques is CAPTCHA, automated tests tha ... Another family is exemplified by my work on The ESP Game ...

Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

2009-05-20T11:13:08Z

The recommendations in this document are intended to imp... of the Web on mobile devices. While the recommendations ... As discussed in the Scope document [Scope], One Web mean ... Some services have a primarily mobile appeal (location b ... It is likel

palojono: Design for appropriation

2009-04-29T11:45:24Z

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Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer | Maximum PC

2009-04-09T07:13:29Z

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The Nature of Time, by Humberto Maturana

2009-03-28T10:15:06Z

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Amazon.com: Creating Emotion in Games: The Craft and Art of Emotioneering (New Riders Games): David E. Freeman: Books

2009-03-25T07:08:11Z

David Freeman brings you the inside scoop on how to appl... EmotioneeringÃ¢âÂ¢ techniques he's so well known for. Thes... techniques create a breadth and depth of emotion in a ga... player to identify with the role he or she is playing. M... techniques

Amazon.com: Theory of Fun for Game Design: Raph Koster: Books

2009-03-25T07:07:22Z

A Theory of Fun for Game Design features a novel way of ... designers how to improve their designs to incorporate th... fun. This book will truly inspire and challenge game des... artists and designers from all segments of the industry.... Ã¢â¬Â¢ Why som

Intelligence in Wikipedia Project

2009-03-22T19:35:22Z

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Augur

2009-03-22T19:15:57Z

Today's applications become more and more complex, makin... * Guidance: guide the user which interaction element ... * Interface Adaptation: adapt the interface to the u ... * Content Suggestion: suggest content for interactio ... ... tions a

Interaktive Systeme - Publikationen

2009-03-22T13:56:46Z

Adapting web sites by spreading activation in ontologies Hussein, T.; Ziegler, J. (2008) ReColl '08: Int. Workshop on Recommendation and Collabor ... [Download]

TEL-8 Query Interfaces

2009-03-22T13:55:32Z

This dataset contains the original query interfaces and ... extracted query capabilities of 447 deep Web sources fro... domains, which form 3 groups "TEL" (and thus the name of... the Travel group: Airfares, Hotels, and Car Rentals; in ... group: Book

VITAL JACKET

2009-03-14T13:39:56Z

The Vital JacketÃÂ® is a wearable vital signs monitoring ... textiles with microelectronics. It was designed and deve... usable pragmatic approach for different clinical and nor... The original pre-product version of the Vital JacketÃÂ® i ... This wide r

Frost Ajax Library - official homepage

2009-02-17T12:22:27Z

Frost Ajax Library Logo The Frost Ajax library is a tool... development on constrained browsers, such as micro brows... phones or gaming consoles. It is intended to abstract th... the XMLHttpRequest object (XHR) or an equivalent ActiveX... therefore m

WURFL

2009-02-17T12:21:45Z

WURFL = Wireless Universal Resource File The WURFL is an "ambitious" configuration file that cont ...

Alicebot

2009-02-17T11:43:24Z

ALICE A.I. Foundation news items, announcements, press r... opinions. Anything related to Artificial Intelligence Ma... (AIML), the Turing Test, the Loebner Prize, bot hosting ... proprietary chat bot software.

A.I. Foundation Bot Directory

2009-02-17T11:42:52Z

The following is an alphabetical listing of bots you can...

OpenCyc.org

2009-02-17T11:08:55Z

OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology... * rapid development of an ontology in a vertical area * email prioritizing, routing, summarization, and an ... * expert systems * games

BBC NEWS | Technology | New phone features 'baffle users'

2009-01-19T10:16:35Z

New phone features 'baffle users' Children using mobile phones, BBC Setting up a new mobile phone is no longer child's play. The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users ... ... ore new services if the technology was easier to set up.

SitePoint ÃÂ» Crimes Against Hypertext

2009-01-19T09:09:35Z

Just like Information Superhighway and cyberspace, the t... hypertext seem to have dropped out of fashion. Despite t... still the foundation of the Web Ã¢â¬â one of its core feat... HTML tag is the sole element that produces the hyper... plain text

Day 14: Adding titles to links - Dive Into Accessibility

2009-01-19T08:58:32Z

What with the web being all about links, you would think... know about the title attribute, but I rarely see it. For... know, all links can have a title, specified by the title... tag. This is in addition to whatever link text you s... Not all lin

YouTube - Guy gets REALLY mad at his computer!

2009-01-17T07:40:36Z

Guy gets REALLY mad at his computer!

eTools.ch: The Fast Metasearch Engine from Switzerland

2009-01-13T09:01:01Z

The following 14 search engines get queried in parallel:

Wikipatterns - Wiki Patterns

2009-01-13T08:54:57Z

Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 user... Applying patterns that help coordinate people's efforts ... growth of content, and recognizing anti-patterns that mi... - can give your wiki the greatest chance of success. Wikipatterns.com is

JennyLC:: Intimate Controllers

2009-01-08T10:52:18Z

Intimate Controllers A platform where video games are played by couples touch ... Project by JennyLC Chowdhury With flash development by Sinan Ascioglu ... traditional notions and orientation of video game play.

Usability Testing With 5 Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

2009-01-06T09:04:00Z

The curve clearly shows that you need to test with at le... discover all the usability problems in the design. So wh... testing with a much smaller number of users? The main reason is that it is better to distribute your ... You want to run multiple te

Magic/Replace - Data Cleanup for Everyone from Dabble DB

2008-12-12T09:35:47Z

ScienceDirect - Artificial Intelligence : Intention is choice with commitment*1

2008-12-07T16:45:18Z

This paper explores principles governing the rational ba... agent's beliefs, goals, actions, and intentions. Such pr... specifications for artificial agents, and approximate a ... action (as philosophers use the term). By making explici... under which

Strategic Directions in Human Computer Interaction

2008-11-29T19:13:45Z

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of how peo... implement, and use interactive computer systems, and how... individuals, organizations, and society. HCI is a resear... At the same time that a human-centered approach to syste ... This report

PD of HCI - Main

2008-11-29T19:13:22Z

1. Problems and issues in HCI. In this section I have placed a summary of an article by ... 2. Different research directions. This section features a summary of an article called Fou ... ... nferences, journals, information on publishers and more.

Apple - Mac OS X Leopard - Features - Mail

2008-11-22T17:13:10Z

Data, detected. Say you get an email invitation to dinner. What if Mail ...

Notae: Organize your notes, organize your life. | codepoetry

2008-11-22T17:12:01Z

Everyone has a lot of notes. Some of them are organized,... arenÃ¢â¬â¢t. It doesnÃ¢â¬â¢t have to be that way. notae-title-shot Notae keeps all of your thoughts together. It lets you t ...

Craigslist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008-11-15T07:16:18Z

Having observed people helping one another in a friendly... trusting community way on the Internet, the WELL, and Us... The first postings debuted in early 1995. The initial te ... Soon, word of mouth led to rapid growth. Both subscriber ... Newmark say

Riya - Visual Search

2008-10-23T15:03:07Z

Riya is a new kind of visual search engine. We look insi... Use Riya to: * Find similar faces and objects on many images acro ... * Refine the results, using color, shape and texture. ... look forward to your feedback via email or via our blog.

Haystack Group

2008-10-15T18:21:57Z

Our goal is to make it easier for people to collect, org... visualize, and share their information. One of the bigge... such information management is the rigid, centrally-plan... models and user interfaces of existing applications and ... data people

The Press On framework

2008-09-28T12:07:54Z

This web page provides a convenient way to try out and e... JavaScript code from the book Press On. It provides a ra... devices you can experiment with, a JSON import so you ca... devices, and an export function (currently supporting JS... SCXML, Dot

Comparison of user interface markup languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008-09-28T11:17:05Z

Basic general information about the markup languages: cr... Ã¢â â Creator Ã¢â â License Ã¢â â First public release ... avg Ulrich von Zadow LGPL 2003 0.7.0 text editor or ... GladeXML GNOME LGPL April 1998 2.10.0 Glade GTK+ ... 3. ^ XForm

Reality-based interaction

2008-09-07T21:17:57Z

We are in the midst of an explosion of emerging human-co... techniques that redefine our understanding of both compu... interaction. We propose the notion of Reality-Based Inte... unifying concept that ties together a large subset of th... interaction

Judging forms - Formulate Information Design

2008-09-03T20:34:12Z

False judgements and assumptions Another reason to move beyond 'face value' is that our u ... Recently, I decided to check a number of such assumption ...

Usability News - It's Who You Know (Or Don't)

2008-09-03T20:31:12Z

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 amusementsÃ¢â¬âSc ... It's that k

Visual Ergonomics in the office

2008-08-06T20:18:58Z

How do you set up a computer workstation? Do you buy mon... remove the CPU from beneath the monitor. Will even lower... cause neck strain? Can you get away with tipping the mon... glare or should you invest in indirect lighting? How abo... This articl

Heart Robot: red hot date at the Science Museum - Times Online

2008-08-05T17:52:14Z

Heart Robot: red hot date at the Science Museum Times Journalist, Will Pabia interacts with a robot at t ... (Bruno Vincent) Not the date Will Pavia was expecting ... Â; Ã¢â¬ÅIÃ¢â¬â¢m like a machine in the bedroomÃ¢â¬Â, and so on.

Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan - Times Online

2008-08-05T17:19:13Z

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

Delivery Context Ontology

2008-08-05T16:28:06Z

The Delivery Context Ontology provides a formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which devices inte... or other services. The delivery context includes the cha... the device, the software used to access the service and ... The deliver

Delivery Context Ontology

2008-08-05T16:28:06Z

Project Interactive Information Visualization to Explore Temporal Data - Department for Information and Knowledge Engineering - Danube University Krems

2008-07-24T07:56:06Z

Contact Person Wolfgang Aigner Project Information Visualization is mainly concerned with the r ...

Why general practitioners use computers and hospital doctors do not---Part 1: incentives -- Benson 325 (7372): 1086 -- BMJ

2008-07-18T07:07:07Z

Almost all British general practitioners use compute... consulting rooms, but most hospital doctors do not Over 30 years, leaders of the general practitioner p ... In hospitals computing was treated as a management o ... The success of th

E-Health Europe :: Insurance companies to pay doctors for smartcards

2008-07-16T09:41:12Z

The political representatives of German doctors are unde... when it comes to the smartcard project. The next nationa... In a draft of a position paper that was made public last ... A reserved wording may indeed yield a majority among doc ... Regardless,

Prescription for an electronic revolution? - News Archive - Nottingham University | Research | News & Reviews

2008-07-16T09:38:54Z

Prescription for an electronic revolution? 14 December 2007 PA284/07 Patients could be saved millions of trips to their GP un ... ... h expertise in the field of prescribing in primary care.

IngentaConnect Business pluralism of electronic prescriptions: state of developm...

2008-07-16T09:37:13Z

In this paper, we analyse the current state of the devel... electronic prescriptions in Europe and the USA. These tw... different approaches to the healthcare sector, since in ... national social insurance usually provides treatment for... (most often

E-Health Europe :: Bulgaria launches eCard prescriptions project

2008-07-16T09:36:30Z

Bulgaria launches eCard prescriptions project 22 Oct 2007 Bulgaria has begun an online electronic prescriptions pr ... The first online transaction, carried out earlier this m ... ... alth solutions,Ã¢â¬Â commented Peter Reuschel, CEO of ICW.

bjhc&im news - Gibraltar Health Authority launches electronic prescription system

2008-07-16T09:35:54Z

Gibraltar Health Authority launches electronic prescript... 28 April 2008 The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) has introduced a ne ... Using a combination of unique prescription IDs and uniqu ... ... his type of information can be critical to patient car

E-Health Insider Primary Care :: Less than 1.5% of electronic prescriptions seamless

2008-07-16T09:34:36Z

E-Health Insider has learned that of the 1.6m electronic... issued by the Electronic Prescription Service, just unde... seamlessly sent and received all the way through to disp... Out of the 1.6m scripts created electronically by GPs, j ... This means

Pharmacists prepare for national electronic prescription service

2008-07-16T09:32:34Z

Nottingham University to assess electronic transfer of repeat prescriptions

2008-07-16T09:29:43Z

University of Nottingham

OpenInterface STREP

2008-06-30T21:36:46Z

The aim of OpenInterface is to design and develop an ope... Numerous multimodal laboratory prototypes embedding inno ... It is now time to make a step change in the domain of mu ... 1. to ground the development of multimodal interactiv ... ... JPG - 3

Augur

2008-06-18T12:45:13Z

Today's applications become more and more complex, makin... maintain the usability of the interface. User interfaces... complexity and improve the usability of software, but it... possible to satisfy individual user needs. Therefore, us... support too

Twitter hashtags for emergency coordination and disaster relief | FactoryCity

2008-06-18T09:10:02Z

Hashtags become even more useful in a time of crisis or ... can rally around a common term to facilitate tracking, a... today with the San Diego fires (in fact, it was similar ... Bay Area earthquakes that lead me to propose hashtags in... as IÃ¢â¬â¢d se

Temporal Logic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

2008-06-15T09:23:11Z

2.3 State and event-type reification The method of temporal arguments encounters difficulties ... The method of state and event-type reification was intro ... Holds(Asleep(Mary), (1pm, 6pm)) ... here Ã¢â¬ÅInÃ¢â¬Â expresses the proper subinterval relation.

E Ink Corporation | Technology | Electronic Paper Displays

2008-05-12T10:51:37Z

What is an EPD? An Electronic Paper Display is a display that possess a ... EPDs are a technology enabled by electronic ink - ink th ...

Step By Step: Jott Your Way To EverNote Bliss

2008-05-03T21:31:22Z

Lifehacker readers already know about EverNote, great no... that now offers a beta that includes a web-based side, t... a cool hack that you can use to get your ideas into Ever... service on your cell phone. What this means is that you ... cell phone

Ctrl-Shift-B: Interactive Application Architecture Patterns

2008-03-04T18:54:18Z

Interactive Application Architecture Patterns An Introduction to the Model-View-Controller, Model-View ... This article presents an introduction, overview, and com ...

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Intrusion' warning over mini projectors

2008-03-01T14:31:45Z

'Intrusion' warning over mini projectors Mini projector Mini projectors have been under development for a number ... A miniature projector small enough to fit into a mobile ... The projector, developed by the company 3M, is around 4c ...

PlayStation Games & Media News: - Go!Messenger live

2008-03-01T14:08:42Z

Get talking with Go!Messenger, a free voice and video ch... available on PSP. Go!Messenger lets you keep in touch with friends for fre ... The full service launched February 29, 2008, and all you ... Developed in partnership with BT, one of the world's l

CyberPsychology & Behavior

2008-02-27T18:31:39Z

CyberPsychology & Behavior ISSN 1094-9313 - Published Bimonthly Subscribe This bimonthly peer-reviewed journal explores the impact ...

Representing The Impact of Time on Human Error and Systems Failure

2008-02-27T11:47:17Z

Representing The Impact of Time on Human Error and Syste... Chris Johnson Glasgow Accident Analysis Group, Department of Computing Science, ... that will capture the temporal properties of accidents.

VWN VR Interface Overviews: Scent Dome

2008-02-24T20:59:27Z

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.

jofish.com - thesis - symbolic olfactory display - computerized smell output

2008-02-24T20:58:14Z

Symbolic Olfactory Display full thesis: ... ts for symbolic, computer-controlled, olfactory display.

Digital Scent Technology Blog

2008-02-24T20:57:26Z

Digital Scent Technology Posted on January 31st, 2008 What is Digital Scent Technology? Digital Scent Technology intends to change the interacti ...

Wired 7.11: You've Got Smell!

2008-02-24T20:56:12Z

You've Got Smell! DigiScent is here. If this technology takes off, it's go ... By Charles Platt Joel Lloyd Bellenson places a little ceramic bowl in fro ... ... ctrum, all the way from Web surfing to Hollywood movies.

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Smell But Were Afraid To Ask

2008-02-24T20:54:18Z

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Smell But Wer...

Projection-Based Olfactory Display with Nose Tracking

2008-02-24T20:53:33Z

IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2004 (VR 2004) p. 43 Projection-Based Olfactory Display with Nose Tracking Yasuyuki Yanagida, ATR Media Information Science Laborat ... Shinjiro Kawato, ATR Media Information Science Laboratories ... ji Tetsutani, ATR Med

F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

2008-02-24T18:44:04Z

F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content Summary: Eyetracking visualizations show that users often rea ... F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. ... ... spottier heatmap. This last element forms the F's stem.

IngentaConnect Pauses and Response Latencies: A Chronemic Analysis of Asynchrono...

2008-02-24T13:17:06Z

This study examines the chronemics of response latencies... computer-mediated communication (CMC) by analyzing three... comprising a total of more than 150,000 responses: email... by corporate employees, responses created by university ... discussion

Amazon.co.uk: Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage Through Collaborative Innovation Networks: Books: Peter A. Gloor

2008-02-16T09:30:39Z

Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Colla... Networks, or COINs. Its aim is to make the concept of CO... among business managers as any methodology to enhance qu... competitive advantage. The difference though is that COI... Through rea

Janet Finlay :: Blog :: Flickrvision

2008-01-03T08:10:08Z

Flickrvision Picked this web app from a friend's facebook page and I ... Just a fleeting glimpse of strangers' lives and interest ... Perhaps we could learn something from this for Emerge... ...

iRobot Corporation: About ConnectR

2007-11-25T12:38:18Z

iRobotÃÂ® ConnectRÃ¢âÂ¢ Virtual Visiting Robot Stay close to those you love Ã¢â¬â no matter where you are! DonÃ¢â¬â¢t miss out on special moments at home even when yo ... * Participate in family moments even though you're w ... ... ted to your family and frie

YouTube - Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote

2007-11-22T10:54:44Z

Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote

the show with zefrank

2007-11-21T11:22:53Z

07-13-06 | 07-14-06 | 07-17-06next comments (276) - share this movie "ugly, designers, myspace, ugly, ugly song, mushy peas, ...

TAGora

2007-11-20T21:17:25Z

The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportu... the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social in... variety of contexts. Such popularity, in fact, is making... amounts of raw data from online semiotic systems (for ex... collaborati

Channel 4 - News - Facebook to face data protection probe

2007-11-19T10:24:18Z

Social networking site Facebook is facing an investigati... privacy watchdog after a complaint from a Channel 4 News...

Transana

2007-11-11T16:14:47Z

Transana is a computer program that allows researchers t... * Identify and easily access the analytically signif ... * Manage large video collections containing hundreds ... * Organize video clips (from the same or from differ ... ... distant

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Analysis | With Friends Like These

2007-11-10T15:09:27Z

With Friends Like These webpage from facebook site Are we revealing too much information about ourselves? BBC Radio 4's Analysis: With Friends Like These will be ... ... c and searchable, and will be around, perhaps, for ever.

Usability News - Social Networking, Usability and Missing Persons

2007-11-10T14:35:47Z

ItÃ¢â¬â¢s just over a week since my 19 year old son, Kyle M... As I write we have only a couple of possible sightings a ... As an HCI academic with an interest in web usability itÃ¢ ... But as a user I am also aware of a certain cognitive ove ... ... is spot

Research Topics

2007-11-02T19:44:59Z

Modeling Interaction Techniques * C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and W. Mackay. (200 ... * C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon and W. Mackay. (2003 ... * C. Appert. (2003). CIS : Evaluer les Techniques d' ...

Model View Controller [Web Application Component Toolkit]

2007-10-29T08:32:50Z

Presentation Model The purpose of MVC is to separate UI from domain logic. ... Some examples include scrollbar positions and column sor ... This is sometimes called an Application Model and the pa ...

HCI in the Next Millennium: Supporting the World Mind

2007-10-16T14:40:20Z

This presentation uses three worlds, collective stance a... perspectives to analyze developments in human-computer i... argues from historic data that the human interests have ... over at least five millennia, and may be expected to hav... during the

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Webscape

2007-10-13T12:17:34Z

We feel Fine The BBC is not responsible for the content of external i ... We feel Fine is a bit of a misnomer as the site aims to ... The 'Open We Feel Fine' tab launches the application whi ... ... aggregator sites like these are completely above-board

Process Models and Use

2007-07-21T17:14:19Z

the pages below this one describe the two models for usa ...

YFly Smack Talk - Send funny messages to friends

2007-05-28T08:51:29Z

ÃÂ» Designing for Appropriation

2007-05-22T15:33:28Z

If anyone has seen a teenagerÃ¢â¬â¢s MySpace page, you may ... a particular Ã¢â¬ÅaestheticÃ¢â¬Â that comes partially as the... customizing pages by cutting and pasting HTML and CSS co... profile-editing forms. ItÃ¢â¬â¢s not clear to me if this wa... the MySpace

The Gift of the Gab?

2007-05-09T19:26:40Z

The Gift of the Gab?: A Design OrientedSociology of Youn... Full text Full text available on the Publisher sitePubl ... Source Computer Supported Cooperative Work archive Volume 12 , Issue 3 (2003) table of contents ... e, University of Surrey, Guild

Crazy Egg Ã¢â¬â visualize your visitors

2007-03-12T07:37:10Z

* Test different versions of a page to see which wor... * Discover which ad placement gives the best results * Find out which design encourages visitors to click ... * Learn which content leads to improved sales

ÃÂ» Geert Hofstede cultural dimensions - Cross Cultural Communication

2007-02-21T15:28:54Z

Geert HofstedeÃ¢â¬â¢s Cultural Dimensions National cultures can be described according to the anal ... If you follow the links below you will find a map of the ... Ã¢â¬Â¢ Power Distance ... Ã¢â¬Â¢ Long-Term Orientation

WIRED Blogs: Table of Malcontents

2007-01-24T17:43:15Z

ellyfish Screen Shows Video In Living, Pulsating 3D Picture_12The Gemotion is an invention that does somethi ... Gemotion is a soft, Ã¢â¬ËlivingÃ¢â¬â¢ display that bulges ... Yoichiro Kawaguchi, a well-known computer graphics a ... ... Gemotion screen

QSR International - NVivo

2007-01-14T15:02:17Z

Itâs the latest in research software. NVivo 7 takes anal... a whole new level with a powerful, intelligent applicati... to manage, shape and analyze virtually any information, ... NVivo 7 will change the way you work forever. Designed in consultation w

Consumating: A New Way To Find People Who Don't Suck

2007-01-04T23:40:14Z

makelikepaper said, (14 days ago) reply i don't photolurk often, but man i'm always insanely cur ... makelikepaper said, (14 days ago) reply if you post photos on your flickr here, i'll probably go ...

Usability News - OzCHI 2006: Donna Maurer puts UCD in its Place

2007-01-04T15:31:09Z

She said that consultants coming in were more useful as ... delivering work themselves, so that skills could be pass... advocated deconstructing designs, by working out which p... had created the outcome. 'How do I need to think to do t... teach peopl

Ambient Signifiers - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

2007-01-04T15:22:31Z

Web users are already being exposed to emerging rudiment... of ambient signifiers. For example, if you visit a secur... Firefox, you will see the location field in the navigati... yellow. In another case, the BBCÃ¢â¬â¢s 2002 redesign of it... website int

Checkboxes vs. Radio Buttons (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

2007-01-03T20:13:43Z

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

Just can't get e-nough - being-human - 20 December 2006 - New Scientist

2007-01-03T16:48:10Z

Then there are photolog sites like Flickr. While most of... die than be caught surreptitiously browsing through some... there need be no such qualms about the private pics peop... âPhotolurkers spent most of their time online flicking t ... Email is an

ThinkGeek :: eStarling Wi-Fi Gmail / Flickr Enabled LCD Frame

2006-12-31T08:37:35Z

Zoom eStarling is Back and Better than Ever You may remember the unique eStarling Wi-Fi enabled phot ...

Pileus: The Flickr Umbrella

2006-12-31T08:36:29Z

Pileus The Umbrella Photo Browser to Relay Experiences in Rainy Day IMG_9069

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Most websites' failing disabled

2006-12-06T08:50:25Z

'Most websites' failing disabled 10 Downing Street website Tony Blair's website was one of few to make the grade Most of the leading websites around the world are failin ... ... nyone committed to the idea of equal web access for all.

I-Tech's Virtual Laser Keyboard (Home page) revolutionary Aid for Smart Phone PDA or Laptop

2006-11-14T15:29:24Z

The Virtual Laser Keyboard (VKB) uses both infrared and ... generate an invisible field and project a full-size virt... keyboard on any surface.

WIRED NextFest 2006 (Printer Friendly View) - Featured Article - Digital Trends

2006-11-14T15:26:34Z

Brain Ball Ready, Set, Relax! Brainball is a totally new concept of ... Brain Ball

Gumption: I Spy Eye Spy Advertising: Urinal Based Display Marketing and Captive Micro-audiences

2006-10-31T20:03:17Z

I had lunch at Illusions Fayrouz Dining and Entertainmen... and when I used the men's room after the meal, I discove... Eyespyadvertising1 Eyespyadvertising2 The web site listed on the display unit, www.eyespyadver ...

palojono: Appropriation, innovation, users, designers

2006-10-29T11:40:14Z

An interesting follow on discussion with Divya Ramachand... A nice distinction comes from the late Professor Rolf Fa ... INVENTION: is the creation of new ideas INNOVATION: is the acceptance of new ideas ... ing in someone's head, or as a pretty

HCI Lab - University of Udine - Downloads & Videos

2006-10-12T14:48:23Z

MOPET (MObile PErsonal Trainer) The video shows the main functionalities provided by the ...

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. - Human-Computer Interaction - 20(3):315 - Abstract

2006-10-10T12:42:55Z

Information Theoretic Models of HCI: A Comparison of the... Fitts' Law Steven C. SeowÃ¢â¬Å Brown University The Hick-Hyman Law and Fitts' Law are two surviving huma ...

Welcome to the AMI Meeting Corpus Ã¢â¬â AMI corpus

2006-10-04T09:57:05Z

The AMI Meeting Corpus is a multi-modal data set consist... meeting recordings. For a gentle introduction to the cor... corpus overview. To directly access the data, login or r... free and go to the Access AMI corpus section. Around two... data has be

ECSCW Proceedings Main

2006-10-02T14:04:04Z

ECSCW is a series of international conferences on comput... As stated in the preface to the ECSCW 1991 proceedings, ... ECSCW has been instrumental in defining the agenda of CS ... * the situated nature of action and interaction and ... ... the dis

Newton MessagePad

2006-10-01T20:22:33Z

Original Product Specifications Announcement (1993) The Newton MessagePad is the first in a family of com ...

3-Lib, Your resource for all things Psion and Symbian. Features, software, stats and tutorials.

2006-10-01T19:26:20Z

One thing several people have asked for in recent months... roundup of all Psion pocket computers and software, past... I did this in Palmtop magazine (issue 20, backissues sti... republished here in fairly gory detail, covering even Da... beginnings

Welcome to TrueSwitch. Ensure a successful move to your new Internet account

2006-09-25T11:06:18Z

TrueSwitch makes changing your Internet Service Provider... your personal data to the new account, notify everyone w... address, forward emails sent to your old email address a... the old account

GlimpsesÃ¢â¬âThe Uncanny Valley

2006-09-24T15:01:18Z

The Uncanny Valley Why are monster-movie zombies so horrifying and talking animals so fascinating? Written and illustrated by Dave Bryant ... a second peak where resemblance to humanity is complete.

HUMAINE Emotion Annotation and Representation Language (EARL) Ã¢â¬â emotion-research.net

2006-07-26T19:57:14Z

This report proposes a syntax for an XML-based language ... and annotating emotions in technological contexts. In co... markup languages, where emotion is often represented in ... part of a specific language, we propose a language aimin... a wide rang

Emotion Incubator Group

2006-07-26T19:56:49Z

The mission of the Emotion Incubator Group, part of the ... is to investigate the prospects of defining a general-pu... annotation and representation language, which should be ... variety of technological contexts where emotions need to...

Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2006-07-08T16:28:14Z

# Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernable). # Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentra ... # A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the mergi ... # Distorted sense of time - our subjective experience of ... ... ally rewardi

Pat Jordan

2006-07-08T16:24:16Z

The framework looks at the following four aspects of hum... * Physio-Pleasure: This is to do with the body -- pl ... * Socio-Pleasure: This is the enjoyment derived from ... * Psycho-Pleasure: This type of pleasure pertains to ... * Ideo-

The siren call of MySpace.com | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA

2006-07-06T20:56:42Z

Eighteen-year-old Aaron VanMeerÃ¢â¬â¢s daily routine goes s... Get home from school, grab a snack and slide in front of... computer for his daily fix. HeÃ¢â¬â¢s just gotta log on to MySpace.com, the Web site wh ...

Bloggers Blog: MySpace Becoming Teen Juggernaut

2006-07-06T18:28:20Z

Interest in MySpace.com increased following the murder o... Taylor Behl who had a MySpace.com account. The account i... goodbyes and well wishes.

Wiley::How to Make Brilliant Stuff That People Love ...ÃÂ and Make Big Money Out of It

2006-07-06T09:27:30Z

How to Make Brilliant Stuff That People Love ... and Mak... Patrick W. Jordan ISBN: 0-470-84711-5 Hardcover ... October 2002

What Was I Thinking

2006-07-02T16:17:18Z

The aim of this research project is to build technology ... remember. The problem of forgetting should be familiar t... it is likely that the reader will not remember much abou... week. Memory aids have existed for as long as one can re... Computers h

Download details: IM Etiquette Guide v1.1

2006-07-01T16:48:46Z

This guide provides a set of guidelines and best practic... instant messaging effectively in an enterprise context.

Paul Ekman. Ph.D : About Paul Ekman

2006-07-01T15:19:03Z

For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit... His interes

Facial Action Coding System (FACS) and the FACS Manual

2006-07-01T14:51:30Z

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) Manual is a detai... guide that explains how to categorize facial behaviors b... muscles that produce them, i.e., how muscular action is ... appearances. It illustrates appearance changes of the fa... description

Detecting deception

2006-07-01T14:49:46Z

Psychological sleuths Detecting deception Some research links lying with such facial and bodily cu ... BY RACHEL ADELSON

HP Labs : News : Archives : Gene Genie

2006-06-29T16:00:23Z

No problem: hpDJ can recapture the mood. At this club, t... biofeedback devices on their wrists or as earrings -- mo... accessories than high-tech devices -- designed to monito... motion, location, temperature and heart rate. This information is fed to

Download Pictures

2006-06-29T09:14:11Z

Research News Center Ã¢â¬â Download Pictures In the site below you will find high-resolution pictures ...

Capturing Experiences Anytime, Anywhere

2006-06-17T14:11:17Z

WhatÃ¢â¬â¢s the future of mobile experience-capture technol... if a company were to make a small, white, beautifully de... device with an Ã¢â¬ÅiÃ¢â¬Â in front of its name, what would ... explore this question by examining three technologies: o... currently a

WeeklyDig : > FLESH AND MACHINES

2006-06-09T22:00:44Z

FLESH AND MACHINES MIT robotic scientist Rodney Brooks foresees a future me ...

JC Working papers

2006-06-04T15:57:15Z

Jennie Carroll Working Papers This page contains various Working Papers and works in p ... The development in the Model of Technology Appropriation ...

The Digital Object Identifier System

2006-06-01T08:43:39Z

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for iden... objects in the digital environment. DOIs are names assig... for use on digital networks. They are used to provide cu... including where they (or information about them) can be ... Internet. I

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | New feel and sound of computers

2006-05-13T15:23:40Z

The sensitive PC is a research project intended to impro... between man and machine, and to see if computers can be ... Dr JÃÂ¶rg Voskamp, from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, w ... "We thought that it might be a good idea to bring the co ... The system

Amazon.co.uk: Mobile Interaction Design: Books

2006-05-10T13:11:33Z

Mobile Interaction Design Matt Jones, Gary Marsden Mobile Interaction Design

Simple Guide for TEI Lite XML Markup

2006-05-07T18:44:38Z

Translate TXT, sms, chat slang, IM speak and lingo for free... acronyms, smileys, & emoticons, ringtones, games and logos from transl8it!

2006-05-03T18:47:40Z

:: SAMPLE TXT LINGO :: The following is a list of commonly used SMS, text, chat ...

One in five Brits 'buy software from spam' | The Register

2006-03-21T13:23:18Z

More than one in five British consumers (22 per cent) ha... software in response to spam email, a study by Forrester... The study - sponsored by the Business Software Alliance ... substantial minority of punters are quite happy to make ... purchases a

O'Reilly Radar > The Secret Sauce of Writely

2006-03-20T17:35:16Z

behind every successful Web 2.0 company there'll be some... the user.

Usability News - The Internet improves AmericansÃ¢â¬â¢ Capacity to maintain Social Networks

2006-03-18T10:08:02Z

The internet and email expand and strengthen the social ... maintain in the offline world, according to a new report... Pew Internet & American Life Project, working in collabo... University of Toronto.

Death of File Systems

2006-03-09T07:33:49Z

From a user perspective, current file systems are based ... * Information is partitioned into coherent and disju ... * Information objects are classified according to a ... * Each information object is given a single, semiuni ... Window

The Art of Building a Robot to Love - New York Times

2006-03-05T17:54:37Z

MARVIN THE ROBOT, a supporting player in "The Hitchhiker... Galaxy," speaks in the dull monotone of the chronically ... "Star Wars" films, C-3PO is a bundle of anxiety and neur... "2001: A Space Odyssey," the HAL 9000 is creepily homicidal.

Usability News - INTERACT 2005: Microsoft's Czerwinski looks at Creatviity and HCI

2006-03-02T11:29:57Z

'Creativity involves the creation of:ÃÂ± A novel product ... (some criterion of usefulness)ÃÂ¯ To the individualÃÂ¯ To ... groupBut the study of creativity by psychologists has ne... nor simplified the problem any further,' she started.Def... PeopleÃÂ¬Cre

Usability Views - 10,854 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, HCI and web design

2006-02-24T21:56:49Z

Usability with a twistÃÂ (updated 20 Feb 2006) 10,854 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, ...

WebWord ÃÂ» Blog Archive ÃÂ» Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

2006-02-24T21:50:57Z

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

Extreme Programming vs. Interaction Design

2006-02-24T21:47:25Z

Kent Beck is known as the father of "extreme programming... created to help developers design and build software tha... meets user expectations. Alan Cooper is the prime propon... design, a process with similar goals but different metho... these two v

Usability News - Feature: Eight Guidelines for Usability Testing

2006-02-13T06:50:41Z

In professional web design circles, the usability testin... become an essential component of any major project. Simi... groups in brand development and product launches, usabil... a rare opportunity to receive feedback from the very peo... But how can

Usability News - Gender Differences in US Internet Take-Up are diminishing

2006-02-13T06:49:48Z

American women are catching men up in most measures of o... while men like the internet for the experiences it offer... for the human connections it promotes. A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men us ...

BBC NEWS | Politics | MPs hit streets for wireless net

2006-02-08T18:10:33Z

MPs hit streets for wireless net Westminster Parliament lacks wi-fi access points The lack of wireless internet access within the Houses o ... The Commons administration committee says tight security ...

CHI 97: Beyond Fitts' Law: Models for Trajectory-Based HCI Tasks

2006-01-18T21:45:30Z

Trajectory-based interactions, such as navigating throug... moving in 3D worlds, are becoming common tasks in modern ... performances in these tasks cannot be successfully model ... applied to pointing tasks. Therefore we explore the poss ... ... ste

Code Snippets: Model, View, Controller HOWTO [python] [cli] [shell] [mvc] [tutorial]

2006-01-15T13:44:59Z

#!/usr/bin/python # MVC Howto - Introduction & code # Wh... stands for "Model", "View" & "Controller", a way of sepe... into # manageable and independent chunks that can be cha... use MVC? # Because code is independent from each other, ... for you to

Visual and Auditory Illusions

2006-01-08T19:56:43Z

The illusions selected for this collection generally sha... properties. First, they illustrate phenomena that h ... implications for the study and practice of Computer ... Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Second, they have ... ...

Illusionworks.com - Optical Illusions & More

2006-01-08T19:55:55Z

Welcome to Illusionworks.com Great optical illusion sites: %u2022 Al Seckel - Homepage of illusions, perception and ... %u2022 Eyetricks.com - Tons of optical illusion gallerie ...

Visual Illusions

2006-01-08T19:51:27Z

See how your eyes are unreliable.

Auditory Illusions

2006-01-08T19:44:47Z

What you hear is NOT what you receive.

A List Apart: Topics: User Science

2006-01-07T09:29:36Z

What does a user want? Designing for needs. Putting the ... web content accessible to more people and more kinds of ... Designing and testing usable interfaces. Use-case models... Scenario development, wireframes. Usability testing on t... the not so

Welcome to Usability News - 7.2 2005

2006-01-06T14:18:56Z

Usability News is a free web newsletter that is produced by the Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL). The SURL team specializes in software/website us ... ... and research.Â

online! As others see - Colour blindness?

2005-12-26T12:28:53Z

Colour blindness is caused because one of the three type... totally or partially absent. The most common for ... blindness which means that red and green colours ... are about 20 times lower for females as most for ... ...

SubEthaEdit

2005-11-07T08:31:41Z

Why SubEthaEdit?Looking for a text editor that is design... actually caring about Human Interface Guidelines? A nice... HTML files? Or a way to work together on code, texts or ... check out SubEthaEdit. While originally designed for cod... collaborati

Big storage on the cheap | CNET News.com

2005-11-06T15:22:40Z

Supersize me

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2005-10-27T17:55:35Z

Welcome to the On_message@home project website. This pro... theÂ communication within the home , with the aim of sup... of a home-based messaging system. The key to this projec... examination of communication/messaging practices and inf... between the

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. - Human-Computer Interaction - Vol. 9

2005-05-08T12:37:01Z

Developing Process Models as Summaries of HCI Action Seq... Frank E. Ritter, Jill H. Larkin Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 9, No. 3&4: pages 345 ...

MIT Media Lab: Affective Computing Group

2005-04-17T11:47:25Z

We have found that people often increase the intensity o... when experiencing frustrating interactions.

Polyarchy visualization

2005-02-08T17:13:09Z

Polyarchy visualization:ÃÂ visualizing multiple intersect... Full text Pdf (920ÃÂ KB) Source ... Â Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

Humanoid Animation Working Group

2005-01-30T10:10:24Z

High Energy Magic Ltd.

2005-01-11T11:01:00Z

These applications are not science fiction. The High Ene... Platform makes this kind of interaction possible today u... popular camera phones. Intel Research and the University of Cambridge Computer ...

Building bridges

2005-01-08T19:21:50Z

Research into collaborative document use often concentra... share document content. However, studies of real-world d... reveal that the structures by which document corpora are... also, themselves, be important sites of collaborative ac... Unfortunate

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UK campaigners condemn âcreepyâ digital billboards that can track viewersâ responses | Privacy | The Guardian

âItâs going much too fastâ: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Uncertainties as Generative Resources in Research through Design: Three Dynamics for Moving in a Design Space | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over Ã¢â¬ËexcessiveÃ¢â¬â¢ surveillance in smart devices | Smart homes | The Guardian

An Overview of Empathy - PMC

AI and the American Smile. How AI misrepresents culture through aÃ¢â¬Â¦ | by jenka | Medium

Microsoft can't guarantee UK data sovereignty

Ã¢â¬ËI didnÃ¢â¬â¢t want to hurt that girl. I just felt this pressure building Ã¢â¬Â¦Ã¢â¬â¢ The sociopath who learned to behave Ã¢â¬â and found happiness | Psychology | The Guardian

Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer | Well actually | The Guardian

Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds | Business | The Guardian

PeakÃ¢â¬âend rule - Wikipedia

SCHI Lab - OWidgets

StoryKit: An Object-Based Media Toolkit - BBC R&D

'I'm extremely controversial': the psychologist rethinking human emotion | Science and nature books | The Guardian

Can I Leave This One Out? The Effect of Dropping an Item From the SUSJUS

Lima Ã¢â¬â The first Cloud that respects your privacy

When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees - The Atlantic

Why algorithms aren't working for women

Why algorithms aren't working for women

Inside Your UsersÃ¢â¬â¢ Minds: The Cultural Probe ÃÂ· An A List Apart Article

University attacked by its own vending machines, smart light bulbs & 5,000 IoT devices | Network World

Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms - The Local

From yoga pants to smart shoes: The technology of touch - BBC News

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Human brain is predisposed to negative stereotypes, new study suggests | Science | The Guardian

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Microsoft's Internet Business Gets a New Kind of Processor | WIRED

The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women | WIRED

The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women | WIRED

Google's Nest closing smart-home company Revolv, bricking devices - Business Insider

Internet mapping turned a remote farm into a digital hell | Fusion

How Big Data Harms Poor Communities - The Atlantic

Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji | GroupLens

Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji | GroupLens

This painful video shows what it was like to send an email in 1984 - ScienceAlert

CrowdSignals.io: A Massive New Mobile Data Collection Campaign

Notes on Human Computer Interaction Ã¢â¬â Jorge Cancela

Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business

Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep - BBC News

Solu - A new breed of computing by Solu Machines Ã¢â¬â Kickstarter

Color and cultural design considerations | Webdesigner Depot

Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack - CNET

PLOS ONE: Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies

Man vs. Smart House: A Cautionary Tale | The Creators Project

Facebook 'tracks all visitors, breaching EU law' | Technology | The Guardian

Moocall Sensors - SMS notification when a cow is calving

The big hole in HCI research | ACM Interactions

Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack - CNET

The ethical blindness of algorithms - Quartz

Results of the HCI-UX survey 2014

Lab In Berkeley Accidentally Discovers Solution To Fix Color Blindness ÃÂ« CBS San Francisco

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BBC News - Not in front of the telly: Warning over 'listening' TV

Smartphones DonÃ¢â¬â¢t Make Us Dumb - NYTimes.com

Weird Device Helps Long-Distance Lovers 'Teleport' Smooches

BBC News - Alien attacks and Fifa 15 chants: The art of video game noise

VIDEO: The future of wearable technologies

Crypto weakness in smart LED lightbulbs exposes Wi-Fi passwords | Ars Technica

These heat maps reveal where we feel love, anger, shame & sadness on our bodies | VentureBeat | Science | by Rebecca Grant

BBC News - Microsoft working on a smart bra to measure mood

BBC News - Microsoft working on a smart bra to measure mood

Sharp's 'Free-Form Displays' with Ultra-Thin Bezels Make New Display Shapes Possible - Mac Rumors

XOX - Emotional Technologies

Phineas Gage neuroscience case: True story of famous frontal lobe patient is better than textbook accounts.

Analysis of the CHI research communityÃ¢â¬â¢s knowledge map - Community Imaging Group

Exist ÃÂ· Understand your life.

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Exercise in pregnancy boosts baby brain development - health - 14 November 2013 - New Scientist

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Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society

Case-control study of the association between malignant brain tumours diagnosed between 2007 and 2009 and mobile and cordless phone use

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Body Atlas Reveals Where We Feel Happiness and Shame - D-brief | DiscoverMagazine.com

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UK campaigners condemn âcreepyâ digital billboards that can track viewersâ responses | Privacy | The Guardian

âItâs going much too fastâ: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over Ã¢â¬ËexcessiveÃ¢â¬â¢ surveillance in smart devices | Smart homes | The Guardian

AI and the American Smile. How AI misrepresents culture through aÃ¢â¬Â¦ | by jenka | Medium

Ã¢â¬ËI didnÃ¢â¬â¢t want to hurt that girl. I just felt this pressure building Ã¢â¬Â¦Ã¢â¬â¢ The sociopath who learned to behave Ã¢â¬â and found happiness | Psychology | The Guardian

PeakÃ¢â¬âend rule - Wikipedia

Lima Ã¢â¬â The first Cloud that respects your privacy

Inside Your UsersÃ¢â¬â¢ Minds: The Cultural Probe ÃÂ· An A List Apart Article

Notes on Human Computer Interaction Ã¢â¬â Jorge Cancela

Solu - A new breed of computing by Solu Machines Ã¢â¬â Kickstarter

Lab In Berkeley Accidentally Discovers Solution To Fix Color Blindness ÃÂ« CBS San Francisco

Smartphones DonÃ¢â¬â¢t Make Us Dumb - NYTimes.com

Analysis of the CHI research communityÃ¢â¬â¢s knowledge map - Community Imaging Group

Exist ÃÂ· Understand your life.

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