Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

iRobot® ConnectR™ Virtual Visiting Robot
Stay close to those you love – no matter where you are!
Don’t miss out on special moments at home even when yo ...
* Participate in family moments even though you're w ...
... ted to your family and frie

Flickrvision
Picked this web app from a friend's facebook page and I ...
Just a fleeting glimpse of strangers' lives and interest ...
Perhaps we could learn something from this for Emerge... ...

Jennie Carroll
Working Papers
This page contains various Working Papers and works in p ...
The development in the Model of Technology Appropriation ...

Symbolic
Olfactory
Display
full thesis:
... ts for symbolic, computer-controlled, olfactory display.

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 ...

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

Information Theoretic Models of HCI: A Comparison of the... Fitts' Law
Steven C. Seow‌
Brown University
The Hick-Hyman Law and Fitts' Law are two surviving huma ...

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 ...

Life imitates sci-fi as contact lens displays inch close...
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by Devin Coldewey on September 2, 2009
... with machines is too compelling not to pay attention to.

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 ...

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

Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering ... construct a "tactile" touchscreen – a display that use... to convince users they are actually touching the ridges,... of a displayed image.
Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion

We have found that people often increase the intensity o... when experiencing frustrating interactions.

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 ...

Touch interaction has become practically ubiquitous in d... and that has changed users' expectations and the way UX ... about human–computer interaction (HCI). Now, touch-fre... Natural Language Interaction (NLI) are bleeding into the... mainstream

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

This post is a collection of my notes on Human-Computer ... It is not intended to be a comprehensive guide or a syst... a collection of useful articles, links, videos, books, w... during the last years and that I have been using during ... I think the

behind every successful Web 2.0 company there'll be some... the user.

The Oculus Rift headset is the cutting edge of virtual r... games. Be part of history by getting your own Oculus Rif...

Colour blindness is caused because one of the three type...
totally or partially absent. The most common for ...
blindness which means that red and green colours ...
are about 20 times lower for females as most for ...
...

The aim of OpenInterface is to design and develop an ope...
Numerous multimodal laboratory prototypes embedding inno ...
It is now time to make a step change in the domain of mu ...
1. to ground the development of multimodal interactiv ...
... JPG - 3

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 ...

Blue green spiral illusion
You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orang ...

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

The framework looks at the following four aspects of hum...
* Physio-Pleasure: This is to do with the body -- pl ...
* Socio-Pleasure: This is the enjoyment derived from ...
* Psycho-Pleasure: This type of pleasure pertains to ...
* Ideo-

For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit...
His interes

1. Problems and issues in HCI.
In this section I have placed a summary of an article by ...
2. Different research directions.
This section features a summary of an article called Fou ...
... nferences, journals, information on publishers and more.

Pileus
The Umbrella Photo Browser to Relay Experiences in Rainy Day
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Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersect...
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...  Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ...
This is sim