A really interesting Clay Shirky talk from Web 2.0 Expo NY. His talk “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure” challenges the idea that we’ve got information overload problems (we’ve …
Fitt’s law and the new Office 2007 interface
I came across a really interesting blog post by Jensen Harris, on Fitt’s law and new Microsoft Office “Ribbon” user interface. Fitts’ law is a model of human movement, predicting …
What is etymology and folk-etymology?
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Through old texts and comparison with other languages, etymologists reconstruct the history of words – when they entered a language, from …
What is a backronym? and its relationship to the word Acronym
A backronym or bacronym is a type of acronym that begins as an ordinary word, and is later interpreted as an acronym. The word “backronym” is a portmanteau of back …
Peter Morville, keynote speaker at EuroIA in Berlin September, 2006
This year’s European IA summit in Berlin, to be held on the weekend of Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2006, looks to be one of this year’s not-to-be-missed conferences for …
An interview with Barry Schwartz on the Paradox of Choice
UIE’s Jared M. Spool has recently had the opportunity to speak with Professor Barry Schwartz about his research on how people make choices, his book The Paradox of Choice: Why …
Programme for OZ-IA conference in Sydney (Sept 2006)
Following my previous post on the OZ-IA conference in Sydney next month, the conference programme has now been announced with some exciting practical sessions. Eric Scheid forwared me an e-mail …
CINQUE TERRE! Some Flickr photos from Italy last week
There is always something amazing visiting new places in Europe. Cinque Terre in Italy, is one place you completely fall in love with! :)
ENGAGE! – The 20th BCS HCI Group conference
ENGAGE! the 20th BCS HCI Group conference will be held on the 11-15 September 2006 at Queen Mary, University of London. Engage and be engaged in an exciting conference in …
Oz-IA 2006 Conference, Sydney (September)
Eric Scheid forwarded me an email on the forthcoming OZ-IA conference in Sydney later this year. :) It’s great to hear this conference is happening back home! I remember (while …
3 types of Breadcrumbs
Hal Shubin has posted a summary on the ACM CHI-WEB forum about 3 different types of Breadcrumbs, Path: Shows the pages you clicked on. Location: The place in the information …
Observations from creating a tag cloud (weighted list)
I’ve been reading a lot recently about persuasion and captology with recent projects that I was compelled to look at possible patterns from tags within posts here on reloade. I …
Papers from the Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005
Papers presented at the NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005, MMUI 2005, Sydney, Australia.
Don Norman receives Benjamin Franklin Medal for UCD
The 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer & Cognitive Science is awarded to Donald Norman for the development of the field of user-centered design, which utilizes our understanding of how …