Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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

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 ...

This all happened a couple of years ago – 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: “The future of search is verbs.” But ...
To me, the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote

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

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

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

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

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

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

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. 

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

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

Videos in User-System Interaction (USI)

Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years. However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware. Thinking about how to make VR accessible to more people, a group of VR enthusiasts at Google ...

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.

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

Waiting for the next e-mail or internet "hit" means we a...
I put down my pen, opened my laptop to write this, and i ...
Then my smartphone rang - it had the e-mails too. Withou ...
I automatically replied to my colleague, and clicked on ...
... tion, b

WarMouse Meta

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

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

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 let’s put ourselves ...
Let’s continue a while as evil web designers: perhaps ...
... ominent