Sep 14th 09
HCI 09: Interaction gets all Emotional
The ubiquity of computing means it’s now present in all aspects of our lives, and – perhaps not unexpectedly – that increasingly means our emotional lives. Emotions drive a huge proportion of what we do and likewise, our interactions with technology impact on our emotions. Emotion as a ‘property’ to take into account during design and Usability evaluation featured in many papers – hinting...
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Sep 9th 09
HCI 09: Interaction goes touchy-feely – haptics, vibration and blindfolds
After lurking at the periphery of interface design for many years, haptics – touch-based technology – seems to have come back into fashion.
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Sep 7th 09
HCI 09: Technology in da House
A key feature of this year’s HCI conference was the Open House Festival of Technology, an evening event hosted jointly by Microsoft Research Cambridge and Cambridge University. The community of Cambridge laboratories and startup companies demonstrated nearly eighty new displays, devices, games, communications and ubiquitous computing technologies, covering the full range of human experience. There...
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Aug 30th 09
Can you Hear me Now?
Interaction with computers involves a lot more than seeing and clicking. For one thing, technology is becoming more and more ubiquitous, and a reliance on visual metaphors, such as the WIMP and desktop metaphors, simply does not capture the full richness of interactive experiences (eg mobile devices with small screens) and the wide spectrum of users’ abilities and contexts (eg outdoor activities,...
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Aug 14th 09
NEC Reinforces Human Interface Research and Development
NEC Corporation’s development of easy-to-use human interfaces, part of its Central Research Laboratories’ global “open innovation”, has taken an important step forward through strengthened cooperation with Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and Carnegie Mellon University.
This collaboration with leading human interface research centers provides additional support for NEC’s...
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Patrick is an accomplished Sr. User Interface Developer and Architect specializing in Web Applications, Web 2.0 and eLearning with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including project planning, design, testing, client communications, training, de-bugging, implementation and maintenance. His book, Modern Ui, Social Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond is in production and will be available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon as well as many other fine retailers in Winter 2009-2010.
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