Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Hey emoji users: Did you know that when you send your fr... Nexus, they might see  on their iPhone? And it’s not... of thing can happen for all emoji (yes, even ). In a pa... will be officially published at AAAI ICWSM in May, we sh... problem can

Hey emoji users: Did you know that when you send your fr... Nexus, they might see  on their iPhone? And it’s not... of thing can happen for all emoji (yes, even ). In a pa... will be officially published at AAAI ICWSM in May, we sh... problem can

How do you set up a computer workstation? Do you buy mon... remove the CPU from beneath the monitor. Will even lower... cause neck strain? Can you get away with tipping the mon... glare or should you invest in indirect lighting? How abo...
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How to Make Brilliant Stuff That People Love ... and Mak...
Patrick W. Jordan
ISBN: 0-470-84711-5
Hardcover
... October 2002

How we interpret our feelings depends on where and how w... says professor Lisa Feldman Barrett - and not understand... our lives harder

However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumb...
Multimedia
Graphic
Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :)
... and expands on what is known about how mood fluctuates.

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 ...

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of how peo... implement, and use interactive computer systems, and how... individuals, organizations, and society. HCI is a resear...
At the same time that a human-centered approach to syste ...
This report

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

I had lunch at Illusions Fayrouz Dining and Entertainmen... and when I used the men's room after the meal, I discove...
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The web site listed on the display unit, www.eyespyadver ...

I was just recently asked how I dealt with my email. Tha...
* I take reassurance knowing that others clearly can’t ...
* When I think its going to distract me, I quit my mail ...
* When reading email I try to decide whether a task can ...
... What do

I was just recently asked how I dealt with my email. Tha... question. Here’s what I do in no particular order, wha...

I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kicksta... wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money do... eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magica... interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help m...
I have been

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2004 (VR 2004) p. 43
Projection-Based Olfactory Display with Nose Tracking
Yasuyuki Yanagida, ATR Media Information Science Laborat ...
Shinjiro Kawato, ATR Media Information Science Laboratories
... ji Tetsutani, ATR Med

If anyone has seen a teenager’s MySpace page, you may ... a particular “aesthetic” that comes partially as the... customizing pages by cutting and pasting HTML and CSS co... profile-editing forms. It’s not clear to me if this wa... the MySpace

if user-centred design principles are missing from proje... because designers don’t want them there in the first place

If you have read my earlier posts, you must have seen th...
Today I have discovered that Fukuchi Kentaro, who is an ...
I have put a page on my server for you to use the functi ...
This is a demonstration of calling the page:
... e. (PS: Kaywa reader ne

If you talk to enough people at the Finnish mobile start... point it occurs to you that the company it most resemble...
Sailfish, Jolla insists, will become a legitimate altern ...
“China… is the most dynamic smartphone market—it†...
Jolla canno

ifttt: The startup with the crazy name aims to automate ...
Have you ever wished that you could call in status updat ...

Imagine being able to navigate the streets just by recei... your footwear. Or feeling a tingle in your yoga tights i... position needs improvement.
And what if you could feel the things you're touching as ...
This is the science of haptics, the intersec

Imagining A “Post-PC” World

In 1945, Dr. Vannevar Bush published "As We May Think", ...
In that article, he described an automated desk called a ...
Sadly, Vannevar Bush's memex was far beyond what the ana ...
Until Now!
... incomplete memex Memex #001 during construction

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

In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Int... number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks ... number of connected devices and gizmos, ranging from tel... machines. Folks at Cisco have put together this infograp... the growth

In a medical emergency, seconds count. But if the doctor... another part of the hospital or even another part of tow... seconds can stretch dangerously. If only the doctor coul... at once, then countless lives could be saved. This is on...
The idea of

in building and designing the ability to access and mana... now could have been called data overspill is adding new ... it is possible to construct. We are entering the era of ... space. This handling of excess information - the data ov... taking on m

In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing S...
The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breathe ...
The other day, I noticed that my friend’s Dell laptop ...
It’s interesting how a lot of companies try to copy Ap ...
Now if you

In other fields, there’s an understanding of how common it is for our actions not to line up with internal goals. In economics, revealed preference theory says that what we value is better revealed by our behaviors than our judgements. ‮..