NCO/IT R&D – HCI and IM research papers

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Challis Hodge has forward a link to some research papers by the NCO/IT R&D (the US National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development). The papers cover Human Computer …

The Nokia Research Library

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The Nokia Research Library contains some interesting journal and conference papers on Audio and Visual Communication Systems, Electronics, Mobile Networks, User Interfaces (Speech, Visual), Security and Usability and Ergonomics.

OZCHI 2003 Conference, QLD

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The OZCHI conference is to be held on 26-28 November at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. OZCHI is the annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) …

CHI-Place is relaunched

In Archive by Fredy Ore

CHI-Place an online community forum site on Human-Computer Interaction has been relaunched. The website, continues to be a resource for information on related topics, interviews, extra reading, external resources and …

6-Webs that describe user interation on the Web

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Bill Joy an executive, founder and chief scientist of Sun Microsystems, Inc. has written an interesting article titled, Why One Web Won’t Do, which looks his “6 Webs” that define …

Interaction Architects or Designers

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Bruce Tognazzini has started up a discussion on the working title of Interaction Designers by suggesting that perhaps it should be changed to a more relevant title of Interaction Architect, …

User Interaction in Automated Systems

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Ann Light has posted a useful link in Usability News to an IBM Research paper by D.?M. Russell, et al. titled, Dealing with ghosts: Managing the user experience of autonomic …

Maya’s Methods when evaluating Interfaces

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Whilst reading this blog post by Peter Merholz, which commented on the ACM Interactions article by Microsoft’s Dennis Wixon, Evaluating usability methods: Why the current literature fails the practitioner (which …

EyeToy for Playstation2

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The latest add-on for the Sony Playstation2, EyeToy – an interactive camera that captures your movements and reacts to them. The camera plugs into the USB port of your PS2 …

Yugop Nakamura’s – NEC Ecotonoha

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Here is Flash and Art pioneer Yugop Nakamura’s latest project, “ecotonoha”. The project is based around the nurturing of virtual tree communities, whilst at the same time contributing to the …

The theory behind User Interface Design

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Here are two interesting articles by Mauro Marinilli on User Interface Design commenting on Usability Heuristics such as, knowing your user, minimising load, maintaining consistency following standards and displaying system …

Interaction Design by David Lu

In Experience Design by Fredy Ore

There are some great Interface and Interaction Design works in David Lu’s portfolio website. Some of his physical interactive projects include, a Phone Dial Web browser, visualization work such as …

Beta testing TypePad

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I’m currently Beta testing the forthcoming TypePad publishing system by the makers of MovableType, Six Apart. If you want to know what I’m up to, you can visit the site …