From the BBC Archive ‘Tomorrow’s World’ collection: Introducing the home computer terminal (1967) Derek Cooper reports on Europe’s first home computer terminal. Installed into the home of industrial consultant Rex …
ACM Ubiquity paper (2005) on the challenges of Invisible Computing
Reflections on Challenges to the Goal of Invisible Computing by Arun Kumar Tripathi Department of Philosophy of Technololgy – Institute for Philosophy Dresden University of Technology – Germany Technology becomes …
Designing Alarms & Alerts on Johnny Holland
Johnny Holland have written another insightful article, this time on the Design of Alarms & Alerts. The article covers some fundamental interaction design principles such as matching criticality to obtrusiveness, …
NASA’s Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment
Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment Since the dawn of the space age, unmanned spacecraft have flown blind with little or no ability to make autonomous decisions based on the content of the …
IA Summit 06 Redux
According to recent academic and business research, there is an enormous wave of people on its way to adulthood that may very well take us by surprise. And while many …
The Wealth of Networks (PDF’s)
The Wealth of Networks – PDF’s Download PDF’s of the book under the Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license. The wiki where the PDF’s reside is a collaborative and research website …
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences
Peter Merholz posted an interesting dicussion the other day on the classification of systems becoming invisible through use. Bowker and Star showed that classification systems become invisible through use, but …
What is a widget & how to create one in OS X 10.4
Apple have a useful website on developing OS X Dashboard Widgets. I’ve recently upgraded to OS X 10.4.5 from 10.3.9 and I’m fascinated by the widgets in OS X that …
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web – 3rd Edition
Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld have signed with O’Reilly to write the 3rd edition of their book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.
D-Lib Magazine on digital library research
D-Lib Magazine is a publication focused on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues. The magazine is published …
The ethics within Ubiquitous Computing
Adam Greenfield has written an informative and interesting article in Boxes and Arrows on some of the ethical guidelines for user experience within ubiquitous-computing. It is an very interesting read, …
Paralysed man sends e-mail by thought
A Nature article comments on how a Paralysed man is able to send e-mail by thought The device allows the patient to control a computer or television using his mind, …
About Some-Rights and All-Rights reserved
There are some interesting companion articles by Amy Gahran and Travis Swicegood which explain the differences between Some rights reserved and All rights reserved.
Four kinds of privacy
Christopher Allen has posted on his interpretation of the four types of privacy and trust. His blog post is quite interesting and separates the definitions into defensive privacy, human-rights privacy, …
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.