Heidi Adkisson has posted on the Use of Faceted Classification in Web Design Practices which examines how e-commerce sites use faceted classification to help people find products. A series of …
Eye tracking 2004 research findings
Steve Outing and Laura Ruel have summarised their 2004 findings of eye tracking technology using Eyetrack III and multimedia content. The tests observed 46 people for one hour as their …
Peter Morville 2004 IA research and literature
Peter Morville has posted a summary of his summer research findings within Information Architecture, grouping university papers, readings and journals he has found most valuable and useful. His summary includes, …
The Encyclopedia of HCI
The Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction will be published in 2005 and will be edited by Dr. Claude Ghaoui of Liverpool John Moores University, UK
The Captology notebook
The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab have a blog site on Captology which aims to inform on how computing products can be designed to change what people believe and do.
The redesign of the BBEdit 8 icon
The recent update of the OS X software by Barebones, BBEdit, has caused some interesting reactions from users, most disliking the program more by the redesign of its trademark icon. …
User and community driven vocabularies
Michael Angeles has posted a blog post describing user and community driven vocabularies. The processes discussed includes centralising vocabularies and using requests to either push and/or pull information.
Matt Biddulph’s paper Crawling the Semantic Web
A copy of the Matt Biddulph’s paper Crawling the Semantic Web discusses some concerns of the Semantic Way of searching information and ontologies.
Lessons from the Chinese translation of Free Culture
Blog on Blog comment on the unique differences and lessons learnt about the Chinese translation of Laurence Lessig’s Free Culture book. Some of those involved in the project from the …
What to do with a talking horse?
UIE have written an interesting paper on the web development stage called the Talking Horse. Every website during development goes through this step, this article informs of ways to recognise …
The marketing value of social networks
Alexa comments on the marketing value of social networks and graphs its growth from January 2003 to September 2004. See also: Unlocking the elusive potential of social networks – McKinsey …
Trust and accuracy of collaborative software
Orante has commented on the credibility, trust and accuracy of Wikipedia and other collaborative editing software and websites such as wiki’s. Slash dot has also added to the discussion with …
Mark Lyon’s G-Mail applications
Mark Lyon has some useful tools that work with your Google G-Mail account including applications that let you connect to your account, upload emails and other tasks. BTW, thanks to …
Carnivale UK premiere on FX
I watched the UK Premiere episode of Carnivale on FX289. It is a great new television series about a travelling circus. The writing, opening titles and set design is fantastic. …
Fonts for programmers
It’s not that often that you consider a variety of font styles and faces to help in programming for OS X and Windows, but here are a variety I’ve recently …