Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The framework looks at the following four aspects of hum...
* Physio-Pleasure: This is to do with the body -- pl ...
* Socio-Pleasure: This is the enjoyment derived from ...
* Psycho-Pleasure: This type of pleasure pertains to ...
* Ideo-

For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit...
His interes

1. Problems and issues in HCI.
In this section I have placed a summary of an article by ...
2. Different research directions.
This section features a summary of an article called Fou ...
... nferences, journals, information on publishers and more.

The peak–end rule is a psychological heuristic in which people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and at its end, rather than based on the total sum or average of every moment of ...

The trick to great design is knowing how to think throug... that users don't have to. In The Obvious Interface, Robe... of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that ... put good design principles to work on real-world web app... interfaces

Pecha Kucha (ペチャクチャ, ?) or Pecha Kucha Night... format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and... It was originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytha... Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003 as a place for young... meet, netwo

But does peer review `work' at all? A systematic review ... available evidence on peer review concluded that `the pr... review is based on faith in its effects, rather than on ... answer to the question on whether peer review works depe... `What is pe

Modern classrooms aren’t working for kids, according t... Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft ... schools are like jails--brick walls, colorless, not very... exciting,” she tells the Georgia Straight, days before...
This grim d

I wish I could end this with a heroic call-to-action. ‮.. Do YOU want to fix our broken government?? Click here to... But I can’t. My fellowship year clarified more problem... Instead, I’ll offer a question: How can we build empat...
Well, first

Perceived usefulness, ease of use, and usage of informat...
Source MIS Quarterly archive
Volume 16 , Issue 2 (June 1992) table of contents
Pages: 227 - 247
... Peter A. Todd

Performance comparison of distributive and mergesort as ...
Source Journal of Systems and Software archive
Volume 10 , Issue 3 (October 1989) table of contents
Pages: 187 - 200
... Elsevier Science Inc. New York, NY, USA

Peripheral vision is whacked.

Midata - access and control your personal data
BIS is working with leading businesses and consumer grou ...
The three main objectives of midata are to:
secure broad private-sector participation in the pro ...
... omers create rich, new ‘person-centr

What are Personas?
Personas are easy-to-install, easy-to-use themes that ch ...

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our custom... month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of ... customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our... looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we d... our own cus

oundary Object: %u201CArtifacts, Documents and perhaps e... can help people from different communities build a share... Boundary objects will be interpreted differently by the ... communinities, and it is an acknowledgement and discussi... differences

The project deals with data from a list of the social re... the Danish people. The list is the result of an opinion ... consultancy company in Denmark. I have used the context ... opinion polls within each interest to shape and design d... so the rece

Archiving digital photos is hard if you want to do it ri... change. When Phanfare started back in 2004, Flash 7 was ... format on the web. Now H.264 is the standard for high qu... resolutions are always increasing. Phanfare can change w... carrying yo

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
Other victims in the annals of medicine are a

Many of my customers hold data in Excel files. Then, whe...
Since the PHP allows you to create an OLE compatible COM ...
Before we start, let’s introduce input parameters of t ...
* $file – (string) absolute path to the Excel data ...
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This class can be used to edit and save a paragraph of t... page.
It associates the necessary Javascript event handling co ...
When the user finishes editing the generated Javascript ...

Name: DOMIT XML parser
Base name: domit
Description: A Document Object Model (DOM) compliant xml ...

Name: PHP Scraper
Base name: phpscraper
Description: Extract structured data from remote HTML pages

Microdata is a proposed feature of HTML 5 that allows se... information to be embedded within the markup of a web pa...
Why PHP Microdata?
One of the most interesting features of the Microdata sp ...
The library allows one to parse out the structured Mi

PHP SandBox
Run and Edit PHP/HTML/JS with this online interpreter

I’ve been thinking about individual features of variou...
To start with we’ll redirect all requests to a single ...
view source
print?
... _route_) that contains the directory portion of the URL.