I am very interested in this topic: Xerox scientist finds meaning in how documents are presented. They develop ways to measure intent and eye-appeal of documents in collaboration with RIT scientists. Harrington and his colleagues have identified more than 150 measurable value functions, including d...
[Tech] Communications of the ACM special issue about blogging
The december's Communications of the ACM is a special issue about blogging. Stuff to read this week end ;) The BlogosphereIntroduction Andrew Rosenbloom, Senior Editor Structure and Evolution of Blogspace Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Andrew Tomkins Why We Blog Bonnie A. Nard...
[Locative Media] Phones predicting user's behavior
(via) A new mobile phone which learns people’s daily habits could be used to predict what someone is about to do and judge how close they are to their friends. The phone may also help track how diseases spread and societies form. Current models have a built-in calendar to remind users about special...
[Research] Methodology to analyze mobile activity
Experience clip: Method for user participation and evaluation of mobile concepts by Isomursu M, Kuutti K & Väinämö S (2004) in Proc. Eigth Biennal Participatory Design Conference 2004, Toronto, Canada, 83-92. This paper describes experiences from using a field testing technique for collecting user...
[Space and Place] Combining military software with imagery beamed from satellites
A paper in the NYT, 3-D Maps From Commercial Satellites Guide G.I.'s in Iraq's Deadliest Urban Mazes: the Army has been using a new weapon that combines software with imagery beamed from satellites to make missions somewhat less unpredictable. Taking soldiers into any urban environment is hazardous...
[Tech] Blog-Meme analyzer
I have always thought a meme analyzer (that would trace the spreak of info-virus-meme) would be great. This Blog Epidemic Analyzer is a step toward it. (via) This is a demonstration website for our recent research (here and here) on information dynamics in blogspace. You may type in a partial subst...
[Space and Place] Architecture for space station
Softroom is an architecture agency that worked on space station design (as well as previous aircraft interior design). Softroom believes there is a clear overlap between the disciplines of space station architecture and aircraft interior design. "Both share similar restrictions in terms of form a...
[Research] Location telling in mobile phone
The topic of location telling in mobile phone conversation is always compelling and relevant for my research. I just found this paper called "Location: a socially dynamic property — a study of location telling in mobile phone calls" by Ilkka Arminen. It is basically a study of how people formulate ...
[LifeHack] The effects of multitasking in the classroom
The Laptop and the Lecture: The Effects of Multitasking in Learning Environments (.pdf) by Hembrooke and Gay from Cornell's Human Computer Interaction Lab. The effects of multitasking in the classroom were investigated in students in an upper level Communications course. Two groups of students hea...
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