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2013-11-29 18:43:15     Is Sony's 'smart wig' even more absurd than Google Glass? | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/te.../sony-smart-wig-google-glass

Need a computerised toupee made of yak hair? Of course y...
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... One of the smart wig patent drawings

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2017-01-29 19:50:37     Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms - The Local

http://www.thelocal.at/...-hackers-as-guests-locked-in-rooms

One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay ... Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack the... system, locking hundreds of guests in or out of their ro... was paid.

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2006-07-06 20:56:42     The siren call of MySpace.com | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news.../5445273p-4915999c.html

Eighteen-year-old Aaron VanMeer’s daily routine goes s... Get home from school, grab a snack and slide in front of... computer for his daily fix.
He’s just gotta log on to MySpace.com, the Web site wh ...

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2013-03-06 00:42:37     Can humour make students love statistics? - Vol. 22, Part 3 ( March 2009)

http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/ar.../archive_home.cfm?...

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

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2006-03-21 13:23:18     One in five Brits 'buy software from spam' | The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004.../spam_buyers_survey_bsa/

More than one in five British consumers (22 per cent) ha... software in response to spam email, a study by Forrester... The study - sponsored by the Business Software Alliance ... substantial minority of punters are quite happy to make ... purchases a

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2011-08-15 15:12:39     Police kill mobile phone service to squelch protest • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/...ce_cut_mobile_phone_service/

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...

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2012-11-07 09:17:44     'Pinch' connects multiple smartphones and tablets together to make a display | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/...onized-display-link-interface-app

Not content with synchronizing your phones to make one g... Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have d... an interface that lets you connect multiple devices toge... giant disjointed display. Although the technology behind... remains a m

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2013-01-11 10:33:13     Disney's new augmented reality toys are promising, but frustrating | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/...oys-are-promising-but-frustrating

Disney is launching augmented reality toys with a line o... in October; from there, it'll expand into other characte... then, it's keeping a tight wrap on images of what it's d... weren't allowed to take shots or video. We did learn tha... to Disney I

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2006-12-31 08:37:35     ThinkGeek :: eStarling Wi-Fi Gmail / Flickr Enabled LCD Frame

http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/7edc/?cpg=wnrss

Zoom
eStarling is Back and Better than Ever
You may remember the unique eStarling Wi-Fi enabled phot ...

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2008-08-05 17:52:14     Heart Robot: red hot date at the Science Museum - Times Online

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/.../article4426074.ece

Heart Robot: red hot date at the Science Museum
Times Journalist, Will Pabia interacts with a robot at t ...
(Bruno Vincent)
Not the date Will Pavia was expecting
... ; “I’m like a machine in the bedroom”, and so on.

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2009-03-22 19:15:57     Augur

http://www.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/augur.html

Today's applications become more and more complex, makin...
* Guidance: guide the user which interaction element ...
* Interface Adaptation: adapt the interface to the u ...
* Content Suggestion: suggest content for interactio ...
... tions a

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2008-06-18 12:45:13     Augur

http://www.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?...

Today's applications become more and more complex, makin... maintain the usability of the interface. User interfaces... complexity and improve the usability of software, but it... possible to satisfy individual user needs. Therefore, us... support too

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2007-11-11 16:14:47     Transana

http://www.transana.org/about/index.htm

Transana is a computer program that allows researchers t...
* Identify and easily access the analytically signif ...
* Manage large video collections containing hundreds ...
* Organize video clips (from the same or from differ ...
... distant

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2006-05-03 18:47:40     Translate TXT, sms, chat slang, IM speak and lingo for free... acronyms, smileys, & emoticons, ringtones, games and logos from transl8it!

http://www.transl8it.com/index.cfm?...

:: SAMPLE TXT LINGO ::
The following is a list of commonly used SMS, text, chat ...

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2012-07-30 14:29:41     Troy Hunt: Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco

http://www.troyhunt.com/...ons-in-website-security-anti.html

Let me set the scene for this post by sharing a simple t... night:
Twitter: @troyhunt Passwords are stored in a secure way. ...
Ok then, that’s about as many security misdemeanours a ...

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2006-09-25 11:06:18     Welcome to TrueSwitch. Ensure a successful move to your new Internet account

http://www.trueswitch.com/

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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2013-10-23 21:53:31     Take Two 'Normal' People, Add Money To Just One Of Them, And Watch What Happens Next

http://www.upworthy.com/...m-and-watch-what-happens-next?g=3

Science can explain a lot of things that I've always won... science!). In this case, it explains what I've known for... been unable to quite understand: Why do some folks who h... money than others seem to be less nice and more evil to ...
At 0:50, so

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2006-02-13 06:50:41     Usability News - Feature: Eight Guidelines for Usability Testing

http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article2783.asp

In professional web design circles, the usability testin... become an essential component of any major project. Simi... groups in brand development and product launches, usabil... a rare opportunity to receive feedback from the very peo...
But how can

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2006-03-02 11:29:57     Usability News - INTERACT 2005: Microsoft's Czerwinski looks at Creatviity and HCI

http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article2887.asp

'Creativity involves the creation of:ñ A novel product ... (some criterion of usefulness)ï To the individualï To ... groupBut the study of creativity by psychologists has ne... nor simplified the problem any further,' she started.Def... PeopleìCre

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2006-02-13 06:49:48     Usability News - Gender Differences in US Internet Take-Up are diminishing

http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article2918.asp

American women are catching men up in most measures of o... while men like the internet for the experiences it offer... for the human connections it promotes.
A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men us ...

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2006-03-18 10:08:02     Usability News - The Internet improves Americans’ Capacity to maintain Social Networks

http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article3001.asp

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.

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2007-01-04 15:31:09     Usability News - OzCHI 2006: Donna Maurer puts UCD in its Place

http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article3572.asp

She said that consultants coming in were more useful as ... delivering work themselves, so that skills could be pass... advocated deconstructing designs, by working out which p... had created the outcome. 'How do I need to think to do t... teach peopl

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2007-11-10 14:35:47     Usability News - Social Networking, Usability and Missing Persons

http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4319.asp

It’s just over a week since my 19 year old son, Kyle M...
As I write we have only a couple of possible sightings a ...
As an HCI academic with an interest in web usability it⠮..
But as a user I am also aware of a certain cognitive ove ...
... is spot

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2008-09-03 20:31:12     Usability News - It's Who You Know (Or Don't)

http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4926.asp

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
It's that k

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2006-02-24 21:56:49     Usability Views - 10,854 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, HCI and web design

http://www.usabilityviews.com/

Usability with a twist (updated 20 Feb 2006)
10,854 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, ...

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2009-01-06 09:04:00     Usability Testing With 5 Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html

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?
The main reason is that it is better to distribute your ...
You want to run multiple te

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2007-01-03 20:13:43     Checkboxes vs. Radio Buttons (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040927.html

Use checkboxes and radio buttons only to change settings... buttons that make something happen. Also, the changed se... take effect until the user clicks the command button (la...
* If the user clicks the Back button, any changes ma ...
* If th

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2008-02-24 18:44:04     F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html

F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content
Summary:
Eyetracking visualizations show that users often rea ...
F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. ...
... spottier heatmap. This last element forms the F's stem.

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2006-03-09 07:33:49     Death of File Systems

http://www.useit.com/papers/filedeath.html

From a user perspective, current file systems are based ...
* Information is partitioned into coherent and disju ...
* Information objects are classified according to a ...
* Each information object is given a single, semiuni ...
Window

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2006-11-14 15:29:24     I-Tech's Virtual Laser Keyboard (Home page) revolutionary Aid for Smart Phone PDA or Laptop

http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/

The Virtual Laser Keyboard (VKB) uses both infrared and ... generate an invisible field and project a full-size virt... keyboard on any surface.

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