Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

What Happens in the Amygdala... Damage to Brain's Decisi...
Individuals with amygdala damage are more likely to lay ...
By Katie Moisse
DICEY RESEARCH: Damage to the amygdala encourages bad ga ...
... hen outcomes are potentially negative," De Martino s

Intel’s just-announced Edison computer—the one the s... card—illustrates the corollary to Moore’s Law. If yo... more circuits on a piece of silicon, you can also make c... smaller and smaller. And this heralds a whole new way of... computing,

There is an approach called "working backwards" that is ... Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rath... with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers ...
For new initiatives a product manager typically starts b ...
If the bene

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

The aim of this research project is to build technology ... remember. The problem of forgetting should be familiar t... it is likely that the reader will not remember much abou... week. Memory aids have existed for as long as one can re...
Computers h

Twenty-five years after the creation of the cell phone, ... Motorola imagined what cell phones might look like in an... years. The Consumer Xperience Design (CXD) team created ... sketches that look beyond what is possible today and ima... possibiliti

kids computer
Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro (Creative Commons)
The ‘Fall of Facebook’ seems an odd title given this ...

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Com... Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glas... lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the ri...
The glasses house a microcomputer used to input your fin ...

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

Some of that research went back a generation. It was in ... instance, that researchers discovered that aspects of vi...
Muller Lyer Illusion Comparison 3
Researchers found that Americans perceive the line with ...
More recently psychologists had challe

In other fields, there’s an understanding of how common it is for our actions not to line up with internal goals. In economics, revealed preference theory says that what we value is better revealed by our behaviors than our judgements. ‮..

Almost all British general practitioners use compute... consulting rooms, but most hospital doctors do not
Over 30 years, leaders of the general practitioner p ...
In hospitals computing was treated as a management o ...
The success of th

Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone ... and get instant directions from your current location to... world? It's kind of foggy for me, too.
In fact, I'm so used to relying on my smartphone that I ...
The answer is "yes," of course. B

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 user... Applying patterns that help coordinate people's efforts ... growth of content, and recognizing anti-patterns that mi... - can give your wiki the greatest chance of success.
Wikipatterns.com is

How to Make Brilliant Stuff That People Love ... and Mak...
Patrick W. Jordan
ISBN: 0-470-84711-5
Hardcover
... October 2002

You've Got Smell!
DigiScent is here. If this technology takes off, it's go ...
By Charles Platt
Joel Lloyd Bellenson places a little ceramic bowl in fro ...
... ctrum, all the way from Web surfing to Hollywood movies.

ellyfish Screen Shows Video In Living, Pulsating 3D
Picture_12The Gemotion is an invention that does somethi ...
Gemotion is a soft, ‘living’ display that bulges ...
Yoichiro Kawaguchi, a well-known computer graphics a ...
... Gemotion screen

Brain Ball
Ready, Set, Relax! Brainball is a totally new concept of ...
Brain Ball

“We found that quality of life improved as the frequency of interaction with ICTs increased, whereas quality of life deteriorated as frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies rose,” the report said.

WURFL = Wireless Universal Resource File
The WURFL is an "ambitious" configuration file that cont ...

The device consists of a tiny camera and transmitter mou... an implanted receiver, and an electrode-studded array th... the retina with a microtack the width of a human hair. A...
The camera on the glasses captures an image and sends th ...
Second Sigh

XOX is a new emotional technology platform that enables ... to track users’ emotional states, collect data and tai... experiences for both individuals and large audiences.
The XOX platform comprises of a number of products and s ...

By combining the color and the depth image captured by t... Kinect, one can project the color image back out into sp... "holographic" representation of the persons or objects t...
No project page yet, but it will go up on my regular web ...
Based on th

Guy gets REALLY mad at his computer!

Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote

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