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It’s just over a week since my 19 year old son, Kyle M...
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The internet and email expand and strengthen the social ... maintain in the offline world, according to a new report... Pew Internet & American Life Project, working in collabo... University of Toronto.

The curve clearly shows that you need to test with at le... discover all the usability problems in the design. So wh... testing with a much smaller number of users?
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"Welcome to Project Holodeck, would you like to make my ...
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Project Holodeck is exactly what it sounds like -- a ver ...

People’s nasty traits have a way of revealing themselv... networks: in writing. Or rather in how they write. That ... of how someone tweets could reveal whether he or she is ... Machiavellian, or psychopathic, according to researchers... present the

Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC.
WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

Wearable technologies currently exist in two spaces – ... pieces by artists and designers, and as engineering-driv... products that are taken to market. But, as Danielle Wild... future for wearable technologies lies in creating produc... aesthetic q

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The Vital Jacket® is a wearable vital signs monitoring ... textiles with microelectronics. It was designed and deve... usable pragmatic approach for different clinical and nor...
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Value Sensitive Design refers to an approach to the desi... that accounts for human values in a principled and syste... throughout the design process.
Value-Sensitive Design is primarily concerned with value ...

VR Interfaces: Scent Dome
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Of all our senses, smell is our most primal. Animals nee ...
... computer gave to it, to create exactly the right odour.

WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

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We’re in the middle of a significant change in how peo... services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and ... exploding.
People should be able to use digital services wherever t ...
Here’s how government services have been responding to ...

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

FLESH AND MACHINES
MIT robotic scientist Rodney Brooks foresees a future me ...

Kissenger Devices
These devices, known as "Kissengers," allow long-distanc ...
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... of the Kissenger device. [5 Ways Love Affects the Brain]

Welcome to the On_message@home project website. This pro... the  communication within the home , with the aim of sup... of a home-based messaging system. The key to this projec... examination of communication/messaging practices and inf... between the

The extremity in teenagers’ attitudes and actions coup...
But however meaningful the phone is in teenagers’ live ...
The BuddyBeads project suggests alternative ways for com ...
BuddyBeads are techno-jewelry items that facilitate non- ...
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The AMI Meeting Corpus is a multi-modal data set consist... meeting recordings. For a gentle introduction to the cor... corpus overview. To directly access the data, login or r... free and go to the Access AMI corpus section. Around two... data has be

TrueSwitch makes changing your Internet Service Provider... your personal data to the new account, notify everyone w... address, forward emails sent to your old email address a... the old account

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The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

Two years ago, the technology blogger John Gruber presen... Auteur Theory of Design,” at the Macworld Expo. Mr. Gr...
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BY Gina TrapaniTue Mar 16, 2010
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