Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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... ced the HCI Community. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 7 - 12.

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.

Google just released Google Currents (what's up with the... supposed to be "kind of" like Flipboard, except that it ...
Google also released an update to Google Maps some weeks ...
Google, here is the problem: If you cannot make the UI o ...

Launching in beta today, Google Cloud Connect is an add-... syncs documents, spreadsheets and presentations from Off... 2010 with the “Google cloud.” In other words, it tak... desktop and makes a backup copy in Google Docs, gives it... constantly

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?

Nest, a smart-home company owned by Google's holding com... dropping support for a line of products — and will mak... existing devices completely useless.
It's a move that has infuriated some customers, and rais ...

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 ...

Why did we build Handy Elephant?
Individuals and businesses devote increasing amounts of ...
Yet, plenty of time is wasted, as they do not know which ...

Your social motivation network to explore, create and sh... happiest experiences

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

This presentation uses three worlds, collective stance a... perspectives to analyze developments in human-computer i... argues from historic data that the human interests have ... over at least five millennia, and may be expected to hav... during the

MOPET (MObile PErsonal Trainer)
The video shows the main functionalities provided by the ...

Heart Robot: red hot date at the Science Museum
Times Journalist, Will Pabia interacts with a robot at t ...
(Bruno Vincent)
Not the date Will Pavia was expecting
... ; “I’m like a machine in the bedroom”, and so on.

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

Free2C 3D-Kiosk with virtual touchscreen
Kiosk systems must stand out by offering simple intuitiv ...
The Free2C Kiosk is perfectly suited for applications in ...
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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

When you activate tracking, Hidden will locate your stol... anywhere on the planet, collect photos of the thief and ... the computer in use. (We also collect lots of nerdy netw... but we won’t bore you with the details!)

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 ...

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.

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

Boxie, a robot created at MIT Media Lab, relies on adora... artificial intelligence to meet its goals.
Cuteness is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It ...

Boxie, a robot created at MIT Media Lab, relies on adora... artificial intelligence to meet its goals.
Cuteness is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It ...

google self-driving robotic car
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are ...
Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged ...

For example: Apple’s typography guidelines suggest tha... for a 7:1 contrast ratio. But what ratio, you might ask,... to state the guideline? It’s 5.5:1.
Apple’s guidelines for developers.

Motivating employees isn’t as simple as paying them mo... complex and lots of different factors contribute to thei... job satisfaction, and what motivates people to do their ... Happiness, career aspirations, challenges, money, stress... that contri

No problem: hpDJ can recapture the mood. At this club, t... biofeedback devices on their wrists or as earrings -- mo... accessories than high-tech devices -- designed to monito... motion, location, temperature and heart rate.
This information is fed to

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

This report proposes a syntax for an XML-based language ... and annotating emotions in technological contexts. In co... markup languages, where emotion is often represented in ... part of a specific language, we propose a language aimin... a wide rang

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