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2012-07-13 22:17:45     BBC News - Smartphone to help blind people goes on sale

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18818279

A smartphone designed for blind people has been launched.
Georgie, as the device is known, has a voice-assisted to ...
The phone was designed by blind husband-and-wife team Ro ...
It was named after Mrs Wilson-Hinds' first guide dog.

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2012-07-13 22:17:45     BBC News - Smartphone to help blind people goes on sale

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18818279

A smartphone designed for blind people has been launched.
Georgie, as the device is known, has a voice-assisted to ...
The phone was designed by blind husband-and-wife team Ro ...
It was named after Mrs Wilson-Hinds' first guide dog.

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2009-03-25 07:07:22     Amazon.com: Theory of Fun for Game Design: Raph Koster: Books

http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Game-Design-R.../ref=pd_sim_b_1

A Theory of Fun for Game Design features a novel way of ... designers how to improve their designs to incorporate th... fun. This book will truly inspire and challenge game des... artists and designers from all segments of the industry....
• Why som

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2013-01-11 09:33:24     Camlistore

http://camlistore.org/

a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content
a work in progress
Open Source (Apache licensed)
an acronym for "Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed ...
... neither "Cloud" nor "Local". happily both.

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2015-02-27 22:28:47     Results of the HCI-UX survey 2014

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/.../ux-hci-survey-2014-results.html

A while back (September 2014) I ran a very short 5-minut... at UX professionals to elicit thoughts on the links betw... that of academic HCI research.
The survey was framed in the following way: "This survey ...

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2013-09-01 21:04:56     BBC News - Abraham Maslow and the pyramid that beguiled business

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23902918

Abraham Maslow and some examples of pyramids inspired by...
Continue reading the main story
Health Check
Herrings - good to eat, not to inhale
... s satisfied, the desire to fulfil the next set kicks in.

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2013-09-05 14:53:52     F.T.C. Says Webcam’s Flaw Put Users’ Lives on Display - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...ut-users-lives-on-display.html?...

According to the F.T.C., the company, TRENDnet, told cus... products were “secure,” marketing its cameras for ho... baby monitoring. In fact, the devices were compromised. ... a hacker in January 2012 exploited a security flaw and p... live feeds,

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2013-01-31 09:28:38     Inexpensive home-brewed prostheses created using 3D printers

http://www.gizmag.com/inexpensive-prostheses/26009/

According to the International Society of Prosthetics an... there are some 32 million amputees in the world today, a...
Eric Ronning's ReHand, made mostly out of parts fabr ...
Eric Ronning's ReHand won US$10,000 at UW-Madison's ...
Liam ou

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2009-03-22 13:56:46     Interaktive Systeme - Publikationen

http://www.interactivesystems.info/Publikationen

Adapting web sites by spreading activation in ontologies
Hussein, T.; Ziegler, J. (2008)
ReColl '08: Int. Workshop on Recommendation and Collabor ...
[Download]

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2012-04-28 21:42:21    

http://research.swtch.com/qart

adding images into QR Codes

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2017-04-10 08:01:48     Why algorithms aren't working for women

http://www.feministcurrent.com/...ithms-arent-working-women/

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

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2017-04-10 08:01:48     Why algorithms aren't working for women

http://www.feministcurrent.com/...ithms-arent-working-women/

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

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2009-02-17 11:43:24     Alicebot

http://alicebot.blogspot.com/

ALICE A.I. Foundation news items, announcements, press r... opinions. Anything related to Artificial Intelligence Ma... (AIML), the Turing Test, the Loebner Prize, bot hosting ... proprietary chat bot software.

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2008-07-18 07:07:07     Why general practitioners use computers and hospital doctors do not---Part 1: incentives -- Benson 325 (7372): 1086 -- BMJ

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/325/7372/1086

Almost all British general practitioners use compute... consulting rooms, but most hospital doctors do not
Over 30 years, leaders of the general practitioner p ...
In hospitals computing was treated as a management o ...
The success of th

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2006-02-13 06:49:48     Usability News - Gender Differences in US Internet Take-Up are diminishing

http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article2918.asp

American women are catching men up in most measures of o... while men like the internet for the experiences it offer... for the human connections it promotes.
A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men us ...

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2011-05-21 09:02:19     BBC News - Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time, study says

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ...
The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ...
The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ...
The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ...

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2010-08-02 23:56:03     Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: Adding Temperature to Human-Computer Interaction

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?...

An experimental new game controller adds the sensation o...
Touch interfaces and haptic feedback are already a part ...
Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices a ...
In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRA ...
... list t

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2012-04-23 18:41:36     HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/...-from-inception-to-final-product/

An HTC phone starts out somewhere between four months an... reaching to the ABS block mockup stage. During this time... out the next best way to put the phone together, as well... best weight and the best components for certain models, ... size of the

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2011-06-14 16:06:46       Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium

http://personaldataecosystem.org/

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ...
Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ...
The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ...
1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ...
Industr

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2006-10-29 11:40:14     palojono: Appropriation, innovation, users, designers

http://palojono.blogspot.com/...ion-innovation-users_11.html

An interesting follow on discussion with Divya Ramachand...
A nice distinction comes from the late Professor Rolf Fa ...
INVENTION: is the creation of new ideas
INNOVATION: is the acceptance of new ideas
... ing in someone's head, or as a pretty

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2013-03-24 07:26:41     Priivacy Problems Over An Online Eye | Stuff.co.nz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/...rivacy-problems-over-an-online-eye

Analysts ABI Research expect the wearable computer marke... exponentially, predicting there will be 485 million ship... 2018.
A Microsoft executive said recently he expected we would ...

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2014-01-02 14:46:24     Heat maps reveal where you feel emotions in your body

http://io9.com/...-you-feel-emotions-in-your-body-1491911738


Annalee Newitz on io9
neuroscience
Monday 4:00pm
... lush of shame, to that warm lower-belly feeling in love.

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2016-04-18 12:44:36     The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/...s-some-icky-things-about-our-future/

AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... who’s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldn’t be... that one of the first—and creepiest—examples of this...
News broke

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2016-04-18 12:44:36     The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/...s-some-icky-things-about-our-future/

AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... who’s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldn’t be... that one of the first—and creepiest—examples of this...
News broke

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2012-08-16 07:15:29     Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/...otential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help... interact with the world of data -- including a deep look... device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In a... Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthS... possibiliti

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2010-03-23 10:41:11     Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better | Technology | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...nted-reality-iphone-advertising

Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better
Charles Arthur investigates how the ways in which we wat ...
* Digg it
* Buzz up
... a video or sound clip. Or pretty much anything you want.

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2010-02-06 18:50:35     Toyota's lesson: Software can be unsafe at any speed - Computerworld Blogs

http://blogs.computerworld.com/...can_be_unsafe_at_any_speed

Auto makers, on the other hand, now function more like s... Dozens of suppliers provide sub-assemblies, many of whic... own silicon - and those interconnected systems are becom... elaborate.
Can Toyota elevate software quality to the same level th ...

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2015-02-25 12:36:43     Lab In Berkeley Accidentally Discovers Solution To Fix Color Blindness « CBS San Francisco

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/...hroma-cx-sunglasses/?...

“The glasses work by selectively removing certain wave... red and green cones that allow them to be in essence pus... said Don McPherson, EnChroma’s VP of products.

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2024-03-13 07:16:06     Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds | Business | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ty-of-life-institute-for-work

“We found that quality of life improved as the frequency of interaction with ICTs increased, whereas quality of life deteriorated as frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies rose,” the report said.

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2012-12-14 09:28:04     N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91 - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...f-the-bar-code-dies-at-91.html?...

“What I’m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale... told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. “I poked my four fi... and for whatever reason — I didn’t know — I pulled... and drew four lines. I said: ‘Golly! Now I have four l... could be wi

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