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Usability with a twist (updated 20 Feb 2006)
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Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

#!/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

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

See
how your eyes are unreliable.

What you hear is NOT what you receive.

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

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. 

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 ...
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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

Supersize me

Welcome to the On_message@home project website. This pro... the  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

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 ...

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

Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersect...
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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 ...

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