Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The Vital Jacket® 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 Jacket® i ...
This wide r

Systems integrating dozens of databases, in the scientif... large corporation, need to cope with a wide variety of i... as: different representations of the same object in diff... imperfect and noisy schema alignments; contradictory inf... sources; co

The quality of the data residing in information reposito... gets degraded due to a multitude of reasons. Such reason... mistakes during insertion (e.g., character transposition... standards for recording database fields (e.g., addresses... errors intr

In earlier work, we defined "multi-structural databases,... support efficient analysis of large, complex data sets o... numerical and hierarchical dimensions. We defined three ... over this data model, each of which required solving an ... problem. An

We extend the OLAP data model to represent data ambiguit... imprecision and uncertainty, and introduce an allocation... the semantics of aggregation queries over such data. We ... natural query properties and use them to shed light on a... semantics.

Special Sections
Big Data| Critiquing Big Data: Politics, Ethics, Epistem ...
Kate Crawford, Mary L. Gray, Kate Miltner 10 pgs.
Big Data, Big Questions| The Big Data Divide ABSTRACT PDF
... Geoffrey C. Bowker 5 pgs.

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... a at specified times throughout any piece of music/film.

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 ...

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.

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategi... resources to help make the Web accessible to people with... following WAI resources are intended to provide basic in... people who are new to Web accessibility.

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

Hancock said people who walked three to five times a week, for an average of 130 minutes a week, remained pain-free for nearly twice as long compared with those who did not receive any treatment.
Taking regular steps also improved their qua...

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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 ...

Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless ne... in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer or PDA.

WarMouse Meta

Cellphone users who attempt to install the Facebook Mess... to agree to terms of service that allow the social netwo... the microphone on their device to record audio at any ti... permission.

HTML Browser Subproject
Version 0.95 of Warrior (download) includes the capabili ...
Why a Pure Java Browser?
There are a number of advantages to be derived from a br ...
... his is the obvious advantage of a pure Java application.

Apple’s touch-based devices have changed the way we in... computers entirely, but that hasn’t stopped users from... thinking wistfully of the days when physical keyboards r... Tactus has taken that desire to heart, and the startup‮..
Tactus co-f

In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delus... Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery mak... Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors... code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers ... implied lic

The question of when and how language first emerged is t... tremendous controversy – it has even been called ‘th... in science’. My work is on what information can be ext... vocalisations. It is a first step in understanding where... dictates th

Tele-gardening
By Regine
on October 12, 2006 4:50 PM
Categories:
... ill wither to notify you that you're forgetting him/her.

Talking about slowing the web:
Louise Klinker's SLOWEB project that responds to peoples ...
What does it mean when you have to queue to enter a webs ...
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... t develop gradually to represent pending correspondence.

Real snail email
By Regine
on October 11, 2006 6:14 PM
Categories:
... e artists will give a talk tonight 7PM at [ s p a c e ].

“people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse spatial memory during self-guided navigation”. Thirteen of their participants were retested three years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since in...

Examining the relationship between parental income and that of their offspring in their mid-30s, the study confirms the obvious: richer parents beget richer kids.
More interesting is how economic outcomes of those from low-, middle- and top...

We’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 ...
Here’s how government services have been responding to ...

We sometimes forget the real use of data - that of provi... humanity in various forms, and providing true functional... need it. Connections are good, but functionality is para... that a company can store ticket information on the web i... but the use

Truwex Online 2.0 beta, Section 508 and WCAG Accessibili...
Erigami Home Check Web Site Accessibility ...
We are testing the new version of Truwex Online Validati ...
Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility ...
... of Truw