A quick reminder I used to explain stuff to our students: If the populations from which data to be analyzed by a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were sampled violate one or more of the one-way ANOVA test assumptions, the results of the analysis may be incorrect or misleading. For example, if ...
[LifeHack] Mail Appetizer
Cool Mac Os X tool: mail appetizer: Have a look at your incoming email without switching to Mail. Mail.appetizer is a plug-in for Apple's Mail and integrates seamlessly. The moment a new message is received, Mail.appetizer displays an onscreen notification window. It gives you a brief summary of t...
[Research] Examining mobile activities with quasi-experimentation
V. Roto, A. Oulasvirta, T. Haikarainen, J. Kuorelahti, H. Lehmuskallio, and T. Nyyssonen, Examining Mobile Phone Use in the Wild with Quasi-Experimentation (.pdf). HIIT Technical Report 2004-1, August 13, 2004. While increasingly better tools are available for examining human-computer interaction i...
[VideoGames] My first video game
3D Monster Maze has been the first video game I played. It was on a ZX81 in 1986. The object of the game was to escape form amaze through the exit without being eaten by a monster. It was ran from a magnetic tape. I was a great fan of it. ...
[Tech] Improvements needed for Google scholar
A very complete review about google scholar. They also provide the reader with a nice list of potential state-of-the-art improvements: Google, Inc. has the intellectual and financial resources (and the largest group of cheerleaders) to create a superb resource discovery tool of scholarly publicatio...
[Locative Media] Location matters says CIA technology arm
If your are not convinced that geospatialocationbasedservices shtuff matters, check how In-Q-Tel's point about it. In-Q-Tel is the non-profit organisation funded by the CIA to invest on cutting edge technologies (that serve "US national security", well it's broad). They have the same agenda as all ...
[Research] People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places
In the CSCW Journal, People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places: The P3 Framework for Location-Based Community Systems by Jones, Sukeshini, Gandhi, Terveen and Whittaker., there is an interesting discussion of location based annotation systems. They coin the term People-to-People-to-Geographical-Place...
[Space and Place] Light Tubes in Geneva
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[Tech/Prospective] Robot applications for everyday use
A workshop in Göterborg, Sweden (January 13-14, 2005) about robot applications for every day use. Seems appealing. I was unaware the Future Applications Lab was into robot stuff. My research is not directed towards robot but the integration as well as the effects of such technology is definitely of...
[Space and Place] A friday in Bern
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