Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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 internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do

The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a sn... called to account by a US Senator.
Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it t ...
Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everyth ...
Carrier IQ said its software helped d

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 peak–end rule is a psychological heuristic in which people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and at its end, rather than based on the total sum or average of every moment of ...

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 political representatives of German doctors are unde... when it comes to the smartcard project. The next nationa...
In a draft of a position paper that was made public last ...
A reserved wording may indeed yield a majority among doc ...
Regardless,

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 recommendations in this document are intended to imp... of the Web on mobile devices. While the recommendations ...
As discussed in the Scope document [Scope], One Web mean ...
Some services have a primarily mobile appeal (location b ...
It is likel

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

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 tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now bei... volunteers, meaning you might already have been surrepti... uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be?

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 Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
unicode.jpg

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

The Vital Jacket® is a wearable vital signs monitoring ... textiles with microelectronics. It was designed and deve... usable pragmatic approach for different clinical and nor...
The original pre-product version of the Vital Jacket® i ...
This wide r

The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

The World Bank and infoDev released a study yesterday ti...
“Around three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants no ...
Here’s an excerpt from the Executive Summary:
“With some 6 billion mobile subscriptions in use world ...
The developing world is

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 many, many more conditions out there that Engl...
Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ...
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ...
... g of a cleve

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

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

there were suspicions that the iPhone 4 had a super-high... Jobs just introduced it; the Retina Display.
While it's in many ways a standard LCD, with 800:1 contr ...
But that resolution, when used by new apps, will equal a ...

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 ...

These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan K... the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work wit... the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the ide... Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the...
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