This Microsoft paper within their Typography and Cleartype section titled, The science of word recognition, comments on evidence within cognitive psychology that indicates we use the letters within words to …
Survey of future and current IA work trends
Lou Rosenfeld has invited the participation in a short survey to detect past and future trends regarding where information architects work, and how much of their work is dedicated to …
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.
Nose movement and blinking controls the mouse
New Scientist comments on a new innovative interface that allows users to move the cursor on the screen by softly twitching your nose from left to right, and accepting actions …
Weblog use within education
Alan Kleymeyer has collected some useful and interesting links that promote the use of weblogs within education.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4
The new series of Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by will be airing on BBC Radio 4 this coming Tuesday.
JPEG rendering has security flaw
Microsoft has added a security patch for JPEG Processing (GDI+). The patch is quite interesting because it fixes a flaw in the rendering of a JPEG image by software code …
Movement & Meaning presentation and Lavanotation introduction
My visit to Sussex University included attending the presentation of PhD student from UTS Lian Loke, titled, Movement & Meaning: A Study of iToy. The presentation was extremely interesting and …
Dynamo Project from the Interact Lab at Sussex university
I had the opportunity to visit the Interact Lab, a research centre at the University of Sussex in the UK. The Interact Lab in the university, aims to develop innovative …
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 Use of Faceted Classification
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.