Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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

With Kinect, Microsoft is finally getting it right. And ... Kinect, while it incorporates ridiculously advanced tech... software, is not about technology or software. It is abo...
As I threw a virtual ball with my real arm to my black p ...
What kept e

“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.

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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... with machines is too compelling not to pay attention to.

Keep your personal files safe at home. Access them from ... the beauty of the Personal Cloud.

Game design is a process of informed iteration, not a fi...
How to write a design log
Start with a concept: At the very bottom of the des ...
Build the prototype: Design logs exist as a supplem ...
... stuff is at the top and the old stuff is

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

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 ...

I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kicksta... wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money do... eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magica... interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help m...
I have been

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

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal info... find whatever you're looking for.

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

FORTUNE -- The key tech battle of the current decade wil... we wear. Technology is crawling out of our bags and pock... bodies in the form of wearables. An increasing number of... finding their homes on our wrists, necks, ears and eyes.... and the sma

Thomas is 70 years old. He lives a quiet life alone. Out... health, his children send him gifts to track his habits ... smart fork that counts calories, a smart cane that count... bed that monitors his sleep. But Thomas soon finds he do... told what t

Today’s relentless email flood could steer you away fr... and even out of work entirely if you don’t learn defen... That sounds obvious until you hear that a British study ... all information workers respond to an e-mail within 60 m... That’s no

Catalog your physical CDs and use the Virtual CD feature... what CDs you own and at the same time see which subset o... CDs are copied to your hard drive. Instead of tracking y... separately, the virtual CD function gives you an integra...

In 1945, Dr. Vannevar Bush published "As We May Think", ...
In that article, he described an automated desk called a ...
Sadly, Vannevar Bush's memex was far beyond what the ana ...
Until Now!
... incomplete memex Memex #001 during construction

Copy, moving, renaming and deleting make up around 50% o... usage according to Microsoft’s Windows 7 telemetry dat... 8, we want to make sure that using these core file manag... which we collectively refer to as “copy jobs,” is a ... experience,

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

Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports...
The word "g

It’s a typical tangle of tech acronyms. CPUs. GPUs. TP... it’s the subtext that matters. With cloud computing, c... Microsoft and Google and Amazon are driving so much of t... technology that those alternative chips will drive the w... apps and on