Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Reality POD
World's First Virtual Shopping Store opens in Korea. All ...

We are in the midst of an explosion of emerging human-co... techniques that redefine our understanding of both compu... interaction. We propose the notion of Reality-Based Inte... unifying concept that ties together a large subset of th... interaction

Over the past two decades, HCI researchers have develope... new interfaces that diverge from the "window, icon, menu... (WIMP) or Direct Manipulation interaction style. Develop... generation of post-WIMP interfaces has been fueled by ad... technology

Ingredients
1/4 pound bacon
Cube of butter (1/2 cup)
1 cup milk
... ano cheese. Season with salt and pepper, toss and serve.

Cards are like a digital equivalent to the traditional a... concept of marrying form and function — so that the wa... inseparable from what the thing is. "These are objects,"... feel, not necessarily real, but they feel virtual. They⮮. be fake thi

Reflection.js allows you to add reflections to images on... uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
It works in all the major browsers - Internet Explorer 5 ...

PostGIS is a spatial database extension for the popular ... object-relational database. PostGIS “spatially enables... server, allowing it to be used as a back-end spatial dat... geographic information systems (GIS) and web-mapping app... same manner

The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 se... striking impact on reported trial results, according to ... that many researchers have been talking about online in ...
A 1997 US law mandated the registry’s creation, requir ...

Regular Expression Tester
Anytime I use Regular Expressions, I find myself doing a ...
Due to popular demand, I've added parenthesized substrin ...
Pattern:
... preg (Perl) ereg (POSIX)

Reification in this context means the expression of some... using the language, so that it becomes treatable by the ... graphs consist of RDF statements. If one wants to look o... RDF graph and reason about it is using RDF tools, then i... least in th

Rel-Tag is one of several MicroFormats. By adding rel="t... a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink ... author-designated "tag" (or keyword/subject) for the cur... that a tag may just refer to a major portion of the curr... blog post).

Rel-Tag is one of several MicroFormats. By adding rel="t... a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink ... author-designated "tag" (or keyword/subject) for the cur...
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" rel="tag">tech</a>
the author i

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 ...

Background: I have an HTML page which lets you expand ce... only small portions of the page need to be loaded for su... it's done via JavaScript, and not by directing to a new ...
http://example.com/#foobar
and have the "foobar" category be opened imme

Globally, renewables account for about one third of elec... generation—and that share is rising.

Reading frequency is also at a historic low, with 20.5% of eight- to 18-year-olds reporting reading daily in their free time, compared with 28% last year.
The gender gap in reading enjoyment has widened, with 28.2% of boys aged eight to 18 ...

Foxconn, a Chinese company that assembles Apple products... employees to sign a pledge promising that they won't com... according to the Daily Mail.

Representing The Impact of Time on Human Error and Syste...
Chris Johnson
Glasgow Accident Analysis Group,
Department of Computing Science,
... that will capture the temporal properties of accidents.

Non-Places, Placelessness

Modeling Interaction Techniques
* C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and W. Mackay. (200 ...
* C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon and W. Mackay. (2003 ...
* C. Appert. (2003). CIS : Evaluer les Techniques d' ...

Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us descr... computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male. We... largely noctural creature, passing sleepless nights writ... According to workplace researchers, this stereotype of t...
It may be s

I was recently talking with Jeff Barr, creator of syndic... chief web services evangelist. He let drop an interestin... has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services,... usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the corpo... SOAP stack,

A while back (September 2014) I ran a very short 5-minut... at UX professionals to elicit thoughts on the links betw... that of academic HCI research.
The survey was framed in the following way: "This survey ...

I’ve now finished the Coursera Human Computer Interact... await my final grade, I reflect on my experience, on the... student numbers, and on how the platform can develop.
It’s been a wonderfully wide-ranging course, spanning ...

Internet technical specifications often need to define a... are free to employ whatever notation their authors deem ... years, a modified version of Backus-Naur Form (BNF), cal... (ABNF), has been popular among many Internet specificati... compactness

Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages
6. ADDRESS SPECIFICATION
6.1. SYNTAX
address = mailbox ; one a ...
... ef = atom ; symbolic reference

Sinister or not, its use at Baja Beach Club seems in kee... surroundings. "It's very suitable for this kind of place... body-aware," says René Lönngren, who runs the Barcelon... cool. "In an atmosphere where it is all muscles/tits/bod... attracted b