The winners of the Built for the Future – ReUSEIT competition have been announced with Michael Pick, Jonathan Biggs and Ray Henry picking up the price for top redesigns of …
CHI-Place is relaunched
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 …
The Usability Methods Toolbox
The Usability Methods Toolbox by James Hom is a collection of useful information on the various methods and techniques used in usability evaluation. The list contains a large selection of …
Wireless camera for handheld usability testing
Noldus, a US based software and instrumentation company of research products, have developed a mountable wireless camera designed specifically for usability evaluation and testing of portable devices and mobiles. Their …
6-Webs that describe user interation on the Web
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 …
The usability of Linux and Windows XP
ComputerWorld comment on a research study by Relevantive which compares the usability of Linux and Windows XP, with XP slightly ahead. The study looked at how easily two groups of …
MIT’s OpenCourseWare lectures notes in Cognitive Science
MIT OpenCourseWare lectures/courses on Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Think Secret on the upcoming OSX 10.3 Finder
Think Secret have uploaded a 5 part series document commenting on various changes including images on the upcoming Apple OS X 10.3 (Panther) Finder.
Rob Kling’s introduction to What is social informatics?
Rob Kling, who has sadly passed away recently, and worked at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, wrote a thorough and interesting introductory journal document on …
Television standards for subtitles in the UK
I was watching Catch me if you can on DVD over the weekend with subtitles on and I noticed that at certain parts of the movie (about half way) titles …
Maya’s Methods when evaluating Interfaces
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 …
Don Norman on Activity-Centred Design
Don Norman has posted a really interesting article in JND on a remote control developed by a small company in Canada called Harmony, which is Activity-Centred. Their remote controls are …
Column Two – a useful weblog on KM and CM
Column Two is an Australian weblog by James Robertson, Managing Director of Step Two Designs, a consultancy based in Sydney on Content Management (CM) and Knowledge Management (KM). The blog …
Template Building with TypePad
For the next five days, Mena, Ben, Anil and the crew from Six Apart (the cool funky company that brought you the blog publishing tool, Movable Type), will be showcasing …
What is Fitts law? and its relation to HCI
Here is a PDF document based on the research by Shumin Zhai, an IBM Research Staff Member, which extends the law developed by Fitts in 1954. Fitts Law is a …