Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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 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.

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

In 2005, the artificial intelligence researcher at the M... Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab set out to under...
"We wanted to understand how minds work and how they dev ...
It was a big task and one that years of research by scie ...
But now, Pr

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 ...

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 ...

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

Design for appropriation
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A more complete description of the grouptalk discussion ...
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How can we produce designs that can be appropriated for ...

It all started while we were researching an article on f... interfaces. Touch interfaces are hardly futuristic at th... multi-touch hardware like the Microsoft Surface or the i...
There is, it turns out, a whole community of very smart ...
And so we d

I do not wish to deal with all the domains in which the ... if it were referring to an obvious aspect of the world o... human live. Indeed, the very fact that time can be made ... reflection shows us that what the word time connotes cha... circumstanc

David Freeman brings you the inside scoop on how to appl... Emotioneering™ 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

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....
• Why som

Berners-Lee's compelling vision of a Semantic Web is hin... chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a b... method, creating enough structured data to motivate the ... applications. We believe that autonomously `Semantifying...
The Intelli

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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... <a> tag. This is in addition to whatever link text you s...
Not all lin

Guy gets REALLY mad at his computer!

The following 14 search engines get queried in parallel:

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

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.

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