Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years. However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware. Thinking about how to make VR accessible to more people, a group of VR enthusiasts at Google ...

The first reaction of many people to uncertain math is to use the same techniques as for certain math. They would either imagine each unknown as an exact mean, or take ‘worst case’ and ‘best case’ scenarios and multiply each one. Th...

Howard's school attendance had dropped below 50% after he started intensive weekly chemotherapy in January, following his diagnosis of a rare kind of arm cancer in December.
But since then, the 12-year-old, who attends a school in Twickenha...

The illusions selected for this collection generally sha...
properties. First, they illustrate phenomena that h ...
implications for the study and practice of Computer ...
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Second, they have ...
...

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

One thing several people have asked for in recent months... roundup of all Psion pocket computers and software, past... I did this in Palmtop magazine (issue 20, backissues sti... republished here in fairly gory detail, covering even Da... beginnings

30 excellent free ux tools
Posted: February 28, 2011 | Author: usabilitygal | Filed ...
uxforthemasses.com have created a great list of 25 free ...
Prototyping tools
... Total validator

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now.
It's a lot of this sort of thing.
As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Futur ...
My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from ...
... or anything. I just hope to suggest

We might not like to admit it but deception is deeply en...
To fill the gap, darkpatterns.org was created in August ...
If we put aside our moral quibbles let’s put ourselves ...
Let’s continue a while as evil web designers: perhaps ...
... ominent

What does a user want? Designing for needs. Putting the ... web content accessible to more people and more kinds of ... Designing and testing usable interfaces. Use-case models... Scenario development, wireframes. Usability testing on t... the not so

A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because ... (Updated)Update: Thanks to Gizmodo reader, Randy, we hav... on how this happened. As you can see in that picture, th... the cockpit door lock switch are no more than 10cm apart... door (the s

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

Mobile Interaction Design
Matt Jones, Gary Marsden
Mobile Interaction Design

Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Colla... Networks, or COINs. Its aim is to make the concept of CO... among business managers as any methodology to enhance qu... competitive advantage. The difference though is that COI...
Through rea

Web users are already being exposed to emerging rudiment... of ambient signifiers. For example, if you visit a secur... Firefox, you will see the location field in the navigati... yellow. In another case, the BBC’s 2002 redesign of it... website int

Based on the results, we argued that:
As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ...
The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ...
By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ...
Therefore, current HCI researc

Based on the results, we argued that:
As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ...
The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ...
By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ...
Therefore, current HCI researc

Question 7
Name at least one advantage circular popup menus h ...
With the options displayed around you in a circle, you n ...

What you hear is NOT what you receive.

Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better
Charles Arthur investigates how the ways in which we wat ...
* Digg it
* Buzz up
... a video or sound clip. Or pretty much anything you want.

Pass-Them-Around is a phone-based application that allow... collocated people to share photos using the metaphor of ... photos around. The prototype encourages people to share ... use them interchangeably while discussing photos face-to... prototype s

If anyone has seen a teenager’s MySpace page, you may ... a particular “aesthetic” that comes partially as the... customizing pages by cutting and pasting HTML and CSS co... profile-editing forms. It’s not clear to me if this wa... the MySpace

Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
National cultures can be described according to the anal ...
If you follow the links below you will find a map of the ...
• Power Distance
... • Long-Term Orientation

The Pentagon has put in an order for prototype contact l... users a much wider field of vision.
The lenses are designed to be paired with compact heads ...
Much bulkier HUDs are already deployed by the US Army an ...

A smartphone designed for blind people has been launched.
Georgie, as the device is known, has a voice-assisted to ...
The phone was designed by blind husband-and-wife team Ro ...
It was named after Mrs Wilson-Hinds' first guide dog.

With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV... technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards... closer to real life.
Whether it be a cave, an igloo or a theatre, virtual rea ...
Full 360-degree screens are now capable of taking a

Waiting for the next e-mail or internet "hit" means we a...
I put down my pen, opened my laptop to write this, and i ...
Then my smartphone rang - it had the e-mails too. Withou ...
I automatically replied to my colleague, and clicked on ...
... tion, b

with excitement building for the release of a new VR hel... Rift - it is worth asking what went wrong the first time... lessons be learned?

MPs hit streets for wireless net
Westminster
Parliament lacks wi-fi access points
The lack of wireless internet access within the Houses o ...
The Commons administration committee says tight security ...