Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
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Olfactory interactions and interfaces are extremely rele... of use and application contexts, from entertainment to r... supporting learning experiences to enhancing the creatio... experiences such as in virtual and augmented environments.

On March 21, 2011, my MacBook was stolen from my apartme... I reported the crime to the police and even told them wh... they couldn't help me due to lack of resources. Meanwhil...
Update: (May 31, 8:37 PM PST) ARRESTED! An Oakland polic ...
Update: (Ma

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
Other victims in the annals of medicine are a

One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay ... Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack the... system, locking hundreds of guests in or out of their ro... was paid.

One thing several people have asked for in recent months... roundup of all Psion pocket computers and software, past... I did this in Palmtop magazine (issue 20, backissues sti... republished here in fairly gory detail, covering even Da... beginnings

OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology...
* rapid development of an ontology in a vertical area
* email prioritizing, routing, summarization, and an ...
* expert systems
* games

OpenDyslexic font The OpenDyslexic font is designed to g... letters to prevent the characters rotating in readers' minds

optical illusion Which lozenge is darker: The one on top... bottom?
Illustration by Dale Purves, used by permission
What’s the illusion, you ask? Those two vertical lozen ...

or the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been dev... expect will be the world’s most advanced “question a... machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday... — “natural language,” as computer scientists call ...
With Watson

Original Product Specifications Announcement (1993)
The Newton MessagePad is the first in a family of com ...

Our goal is to make it easier for people to collect, org... visualize, and share their information. One of the bigge... such information management is the rigid, centrally-plan... models and user interfaces of existing applications and ... data people

Outside the court system, “innocent until proven guilt... people’s due-process rights, Kerr says: “A right to ... to participate in one’s hearing, a right to know what ... collected about me, and a right to challenge that inform... opaque data

Pass-Them-Around is a phone-based application that allow... collocated people to share photos using the metaphor of ... photos around. The prototype encourages people to share ... use them interchangeably while discussing photos face-to... prototype s

People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the i... any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a ... Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science sect... most popular articles in recent months is a list. But wh... popular? We

People’s nasty traits have a way of revealing themselv... networks: in writing. Or rather in how they write. That ... of how someone tweets could reveal whether he or she is ... Machiavellian, or psychopathic, according to researchers... present the

Peripheral vision is whacked.

Personalization is a multidimensional concept, and it is... unpack it. If we are really talking about personalizatio... simply co-opting a word to make the technically feasible... and socially sophisticated, we need to think more deeply.

Pileus
The Umbrella Photo Browser to Relay Experiences in Rainy Day
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Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersect...
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Prescription for an electronic revolution?
14 December 2007
PA284/07
Patients could be saved millions of trips to their GP un ...
... h expertise in the field of prescribing in primary care.

Presentation Model
The purpose of MVC is to separate UI from domain logic. ...
Some examples include scrollbar positions and column sor ...
This is sometimes called an Application Model and the pa ...

Problems of human-computer interaction become crucial wh... question is a potential purchaser trying to engage with ... an internet shopping site. These days customer interface...
Walk-through first referred to a physical tour of a faci ...
Its key asp

Psychological sleuths
Detecting deception
Some research links lying with such facial and bodily cu ...
BY RACHEL ADELSON

Q I have a website - can I display your calendar (or it...
A
Absolutely! Interaction-Design.org is founded on princip ...

Question 7
Name at least one advantage circular popup menus h ...
With the options displayed around you in a circle, you n ...

rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows

Red, yellow and orange show activated regions while blue... are deactivated in these maps of bodily sensations assoc...
Yellow shows regions of increased sensation while blue a ...
Chests puffing up with pride — and happiness felt head ...
Researchers

Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone ... and get instant directions from your current location to... world? It's kind of foggy for me, too.
In fact, I'm so used to relying on my smartphone that I ...
The answer is "yes," of course. B

Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ...
The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...