Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Technology editor Charles Arthur sees if he has the righ... Parrot's Wi-Fi controlled quadricopter for a test flight

Wearable technologies currently exist in two spaces – ... pieces by artists and designers, and as engineering-driv... products that are taken to market. But, as Danielle Wild... future for wearable technologies lies in creating produc... aesthetic q

Between 75% and 80% of television viewing will remain in... television viewing environment for the next 10 years in ... the US, and the 30 second spot will continue to dominate... advertising. That is the view of Simon Thomas, Strategic...
However, wh

Videos in User-System Interaction (USI)

Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the lates... local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech us... Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology craft... mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a d...
Vinay Venka

A meta-study carried out by the American Psychological A... claimed that playing computer games has many positive ef... and, in some cases, the more violent the game the more b... effect.
The research, published in the latest issue of American ...

People spend over $1.5 billion on virtual items every ye... avatars, and bling: these virtual objects are nothing mo... of digital 1s and 0s stored on a remote database somewhe... What could possibly possess people to spend real, hard e... ‘objects

Presenting the Orb
nadeem.shabir | | Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Working with his father, Ron Sears, Nick Sears is design ...

FIFTEEN years ago, the bid to create Australia's first b... university researchers pillaging old stereos for parts.
However today, 154 researchers led by biomedical enginee ...

The subtitle to Kida’s book is “The 6 Basic Mistakes...
A skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate ...
In this book, he winnows the common problems that get in ...
* We prefer stories to statistics.
... * We have faulty memories

This website provides an overview of our attempts to a m... Web.
The term Data Web refers to the evolution of a mainly do ...
The term Visual Data Web reflects our goal of making the ...

How do you set up a computer workstation? Do you buy mon... remove the CPU from beneath the monitor. Will even lower... cause neck strain? Can you get away with tipping the mon... glare or should you invest in indirect lighting? How abo...
This articl

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how your eyes are unreliable.

At the end of each month I pull together a collection of... the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’v... during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter y... of these items tweeted as soon as I find them. Here’s ... collection

The Vital Jacket® is a wearable vital signs monitoring ... textiles with microelectronics. It was designed and deve... usable pragmatic approach for different clinical and nor...
The original pre-product version of the Vital Jacket® i ...
This wide r

Systems integrating dozens of databases, in the scientif... large corporation, need to cope with a wide variety of i... as: different representations of the same object in diff... imperfect and noisy schema alignments; contradictory inf... sources; co

The quality of the data residing in information reposito... gets degraded due to a multitude of reasons. Such reason... mistakes during insertion (e.g., character transposition... standards for recording database fields (e.g., addresses... errors intr

In earlier work, we defined "multi-structural databases,... support efficient analysis of large, complex data sets o... numerical and hierarchical dimensions. We defined three ... over this data model, each of which required solving an ... problem. An

We extend the OLAP data model to represent data ambiguit... imprecision and uncertainty, and introduce an allocation... the semantics of aggregation queries over such data. We ... natural query properties and use them to shed light on a... semantics.

Special Sections
Big Data| Critiquing Big Data: Politics, Ethics, Epistem ...
Kate Crawford, Mary L. Gray, Kate Miltner 10 pgs.
Big Data, Big Questions| The Big Data Divide ABSTRACT PDF
... Geoffrey C. Bowker 5 pgs.

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Value Sensitive Design refers to an approach to the desi... that accounts for human values in a principled and syste... throughout the design process.
Value-Sensitive Design is primarily concerned with value ...

VR Interfaces: Scent Dome
Overview
Overview of Scent Dome
Of all our senses, smell is our most primal. Animals nee ...
... computer gave to it, to create exactly the right odour.

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategi... resources to help make the Web accessible to people with... following WAI resources are intended to provide basic in... people who are new to Web accessibility.

WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

Hancock said people who walked three to five times a week, for an average of 130 minutes a week, remained pain-free for nearly twice as long compared with those who did not receive any treatment.
Taking regular steps also improved their qua...