Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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

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

Supersize me

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first reaction of many people to uncertain math is to use the same techniques as for certain math. They would either imagine each unknown as an exact mean, or take ‘worst case’ and ‘best case’ scenarios and multiply each one. Th...

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 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 ...
...

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.

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...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...
“Photolurkers spent most of their time online flicking t ...
Email is an

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.” If the sy... one that wo