Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

Data, detected.
Say you get an email invitation to dinner. What if Mail ...

Data.gov.uk Newspaper
Friday, October 16th 2009
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ...
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ...
And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Dickens London Trails is an iPhone app that enables user... London as characters from Dickens’ fiction would have.... through the streets of London on a series of unexpected ... encounters. You also discover more about Dickens’ even...
Your guides

Dickens London Trails is an iPhone app that enables user... London as characters from Dickens’ fiction would have.... through the streets of London on a series of unexpected ... encounters. You also discover more about Dickens’ even...
Your guides

Did you know the emoticon is almost 30 years old? Twenty...
Fast-forward and the simple smiley has evolved — some ...
To mark this anniversary, we’ve taken an abridged look ...
1. The Olden Days
... Thumbnail image courtesy of Laihiuyeung Ryanne

Diffusion of Innovations is a theory that seeks to expla... what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultur... a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory i... Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the proce... innovation

Digital Scent Technology
Posted on January 31st, 2008
What is Digital Scent Technology?
Digital Scent Technology intends to change the interacti ...

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e...
Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ...
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Disney is launching augmented reality toys with a line o... in October; from there, it'll expand into other characte... then, it's keeping a tight wrap on images of what it's d... weren't allowed to take shots or video. We did learn tha... to Disney I

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

E-Health Insider has learned that of the 1.6m electronic... issued by the Electronic Prescription Service, just unde... seamlessly sent and received all the way through to disp...
Out of the 1.6m scripts created electronically by GPs, j ...
This means

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

ECSCW is a series of international conferences on comput...
As stated in the preface to the ECSCW 1991 proceedings, ...
ECSCW has been instrumental in defining the agenda of CS ...
* the situated nature of action and interaction and ...
... the dis

Eighteen-year-old Aaron VanMeer’s daily routine goes s... Get home from school, grab a snack and slide in front of... computer for his daily fix.
He’s just gotta log on to MySpace.com, the Web site wh ...

ellyfish Screen Shows Video In Living, Pulsating 3D
Picture_12The Gemotion is an invention that does somethi ...
Gemotion is a soft, ‘living’ display that bulges ...
Yoichiro Kawaguchi, a well-known computer graphics a ...
... Gemotion screen

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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 ...

EnOcean's self-powering sensors -- found inside these sw...
Humans are inherently inefficient creatures. We leave li ...
And despite the advances in computing power over the pas ...
“Most buildings today are dumb,” says EnOcean Chairm ...
... through

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie ...
Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and ...
During the day, computer screens look good—they're des ...
f.lux
... use it just because it makes your computer look better.

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie ...
Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and ...
During the day, computer screens look good—they're des ...
f.lux
... use it just because it makes your computer look better.

Everett M. Rogers is widely known as the inventor of the... Innovation” theory from his research on how farmers ad... innovations. After pursuing a degree in agriculture, Rog... in Sociology and Statistics at Iowa State University (19...
Rogers revi

Everyone has a lot of notes. Some of them are organized,... aren’t. It doesn’t have to be that way.
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Notae keeps all of your thoughts together. It lets you t ...

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Smell But Wer...

F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content
Summary:
Eyetracking visualizations show that users often rea ...
F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. ...
... spottier heatmap. This last element forms the F's stem.

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to... Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not s... about you. You can then use this xml file to import your... services and websites that support the Facebook Export (...

Fairphone is a social enterprise. We started in 2010 as ... society, Action Aid and Schrijf-Schrijf, aimed at raisin... conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the s... minerals is fueling in the DR Congo. The campaign and re... complex sup

False judgements and assumptions
Another reason to move beyond 'face value' is that our u ...
Recently, I decided to check a number of such assumption ...