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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

Design for appropriation
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How can we produce designs that can be appropriated for ...

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.

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 ...

Peripheral vision is whacked.

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
Other victims in the annals of medicine are a

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator ... is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers.... actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to t... the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

Pileus
The Umbrella Photo Browser to Relay Experiences in Rainy Day
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Get talking with Go!Messenger, a free voice and video ch... available on PSP.
Go!Messenger lets you keep in touch with friends for fre ...
The full service launched February 29, 2008, and all you ...
Developed in partnership with BT, one of the world's l

These technologies, BCI and CBI, can be combined to real... non-invasive, computer-mediated brain-to-brain (B2B) com... subjects (hyperinteraction).

In response to a threatened protest in its subway system... authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service i... stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known l...

Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersect...
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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

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

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

Prescription for an electronic revolution?
14 December 2007
PA284/07
Patients could be saved millions of trips to their GP un ...
... h expertise in the field of prescribing in primary care.

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 ...

the pages below this one describe the two models for usa ...

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Information Visualization is mainly concerned with the r ...

IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2004 (VR 2004) p. 43
Projection-Based Olfactory Display with Nose Tracking
Yasuyuki Yanagida, ATR Media Information Science Laborat ...
Shinjiro Kawato, ATR Media Information Science Laboratories
... ji Tetsutani, ATR Med

Everett M. Rogers is widely known as the inventor of the... Innovation” theory from his research on how farmers ad... innovations. After pursuing a degree in agriculture, Rog... in Sociology and Statistics at Iowa State University (19...
Rogers revi

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

Personalization is a multidimensional concept, and it is... unpack it. If we are really talking about personalizatio... simply co-opting a word to make the technically feasible... and socially sophisticated, we need to think more deeply.

Here’s a nice example. On one morning, I was walking t... via the underground pass, and I noticed a new Disney pos...
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Stitch. Notice the eyes a ...