Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Nearly 50 years of scientific research on the complicate... between nutrition and heart disease may have been shaped... industry to shift the focus away from sugar and toward s... instead, according to internal industry documents releas...
The reason,

General FAQ #25: Handling missing or incomplete data
Question:
I have a database that contains records with incom ...
participants did not complete all of the availab ...
How should I handle this problem?

This site is intended as a reference for the UTF8-8 enco... characters. You can look up the UTF-8 encoding in variou... hexadecimal, octal, binary, and as literals for use e.g.... and you can test if your browser will display the actual... depending o

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

The effect was incredible.
The effect was incredible.

So, it was easy to live together in such a small space.
So, it was easy to live together in such a small space.
dailymail.co.uk
This couple proves that bigger isn’t necessarily better.

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

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

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

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.

Plans are worthless, planning is invaluable. --Dwight
Eisenhower

rian Marick, Boundary Objects
An analytical concept from science studies: does it appl ...

A conservative estimate by the World Blind Union indicat... million people world-wide are blind or severely visually...

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 ...

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

Early adopters of Apple's newly released OS X 10.5 Leopa... are unable to work with the latest version of the Java p... language.

In October 2006, I was away on a business trip when a fr... event destroyed the contents of my family’s rural home... oncoming five-foot wall of water, my wife had little tim... possessions. For all the things we lost that day, I stil...
I’ve hear

Just beyond the Cemmo Boulders there is the area of Sera... divided into four sectors. Most figures of this area dat... and the Iron Age (from the end of the third till the fir... B.C.). The rocks have small dimensions and present many ...
The upper p

English is the language of Shakespeare and the language ... spoken in dozens of countries around the world, from the... tiny island named Tristan da Cunha. It reflects the infl... of international exchange, including conquest and coloni... Vikings thr