Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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

Despite to the vast advances in capacity and capability ... the past two decades, the representation of users, their... and preferences in application software has changed litt... of modern personal computing and personal information ma...
In this pro

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

Poyozo gives you your own data back by downloading the i... currently giving to the web on to your own computer. You... importing your data from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, ... Calendar, any email service, any RSS feed, Flickr, Wesab... Skydeck, Do

oundary objects 'have different meanings in different so... their structure is common enough to more than one world ... recognizable, a means of translation' (Star and Grieseme...

The atlas contains five maps which trace the territories...
The maps are:
– Public Authoring, Education & Learning
– Neighbourhoods & Communities
... – Robotic Feral Public Authoring

HaptiMap, Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps a... Services, is a project which receives financial support ... Commission in the Seventh Framework Programme, under the...
If you are walking or cycling, and don’t want to (or a ...
The HaptiMa

Ian Sample talks to the scientists teasing out why we st... pleasurable experiences - and why, when we have it all, ... for more excitement

, as I maintain, 'objects' themselves are as much made a... much products of our conceptual invention as of the 'obj... experience, the factor independent of our will, then of ... intrinsically belong under certain labels; because those... tools we us

Consciousness and Biology
* Patricia A. Carpenter, Professor of Pyschology, CMU
carpenter+@cmu.edu
* Christopher J. Davia, Visiting scholar, CMU, Cogni ...
... science, is available from Davia (davia@andrew.cmu.edu).

The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an edu ...
Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitall ...
This site contains all of the books (about 400) that hav ...

In a new set of experiments published in Science, howeve... found that the raven’s ability to plan ahead goes much... simply catching food.
The first experiment trained the birds to use a tool to ...

Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. “A lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that it’s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.”
And that, she says, is one of the project’s aims. “W ...

Non-Places, Placelessness

Berlekamp et al quote G. W. Leibniz:
The game called Solitaire pleases me much. I take it in ...
This quote fills my heart with humility as I find it by ...

"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

In linguistics, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (SWH) state... systematic relationship between the grammatical categori... a person speaks and how that person both understands the... in it. Although it has come to be known as the Sapir–W... it rather w

People walking on Old Compton Street in Soho, London
One part of the brain keeps track of the straight line d ...
Brain scans have revealed the workings of the brain's GP ...
Two areas of the brain appear to take turns as our inter ...
... identify how th

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A 2014 study found that readers of a short mystery story... significantly worse at remembering the order of events t... the same story in paperback. Lead researcher Anne Mangen... Stavanger University concluded that "the haptic and tact... Kindle does

The intelligent use of space
David KirshE-mail The Corresponding Author
Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 9209 ...
Available online 6 April 2000.
... tasks, and how they continuously manage that workplace.

Volume 63, Issues 4-5, Pages 363-536 (October 2005) ◄... Next vol/iss ►
Computer support for creativity
Edited by E.A. Edmonds, L. Candy

Researchers at the Karadag Nature Reserve, in Feodosia, ... recorded two Black Sea bottlenose dolphins by the names ... having conversations consisting of sentences up to five ... The team says this shows dolphins have a language not en... from our o

Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ...
The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...

Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ...
The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...