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A font for eco-friendly printing So you already print double-sided or reuse single-sided prints? You can go even further in your quest for eco-friendly printing. A font has been developed that ...
[August 5th by david]
Making games more fun with artificial stupidity If one buys into Daniel Dennett's proposed use of "the intentional stance" to generate explanations and predictions of human behavior (say, in an AI program ...
[March 21st by david]
“current Web designs are three times easier to use for non-disabled users than for users with disabilities” That quote comes from a new Nielsen Norman Group (aka Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman) study of the usability of many websites for disabled and ...
[December 20th by david]
The Enter key: Making a mess of submit buttons and textboxes If one has a submit button in an HTML form, then pressing Enter will trigger the first of these in doc order, as though one ...
[November 28th by david]
Making text entry faster and easier for mobile, games, and the disabled A Google video about MobileQWERTY™ shows how a 3x3 button layout using letter assignments different than the usual abc, def pattern can provide lots of ...
[November 15th by david]
Understanding Remote Presence A comment on: Understanding Remote Presence The authors are Scandinavian, and start off with an interesting observation: "When you enter a Scandinavian home in the wintertime ...
[November 3rd by david]
Massively conferenced phone calls that mimic physical space A comment on: The Mad Hatter's Cocktail Party: A Social Mobile Audio Space supporting Multiple Simultaneous Conversations Question: Imagine you have several group conversations going on ...
[November 3rd by david]
Using only audio to support telepresence in office environments A comment on: Hanging on the ‘wire: a field study of an audio-only media space Question: How effective is an audio-only connection for office-based collaborative work? Method: ...
[November 3rd by david]
Using suggestive sounds to indicate state in complex systems A comment on: Effective sounds in complex systems: the ARKOLA simulation A prototype was created to answer the question, if you have a complex system that ...
[November 3rd by david]
Designing to support communication on the move A comment on: Designing to support communication on the move A new ethnographic study by Jacqueline Brody about blue-collar mobile communication needs (this one from 2003; ...
[November 3rd by david]
Designing for Mobility, Collaboration, and Information Use by Blue-Collar Workers A comment on: Designing for Mobility, Collaboration, and Information Use by Blue-Collar Workers The focus of this study was mobile blue-collar workers like copy repairmen, and ...
[November 3rd by david]
“Taking Email to Task” - PARC HCI research A comment on: Taking Email to Task This paper notes that email has morphed from simple asynchronous msg exchange to a means of managing tasks. For ...
[November 3rd by david]