AlistApart have published a great article on creating better 404 error pages. A server 404 error page or message occurs when a website page is missing or cannot be found. …
NCO/IT R&D – HCI and IM research papers
Challis Hodge has forward a link to some research papers by the NCO/IT R&D (the US National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development). The papers cover Human Computer …
The Nokia Research Library
The Nokia Research Library contains some interesting journal and conference papers on Audio and Visual Communication Systems, Electronics, Mobile Networks, User Interfaces (Speech, Visual), Security and Usability and Ergonomics.
Irene Pepperberg on cognitive and communitive abilities of birds
There is also a great article by Irene Pepperberg on the cognitive and communicative abilities of animals. The article makes reference to a MIT project called, Rover@Home which was a …
OZCHI 2003 Conference, QLD
The OZCHI conference is to be held on 26-28 November at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. OZCHI is the annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) …
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 …
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 …
Interaction Architects or Designers
Bruce Tognazzini has started up a discussion on the working title of Interaction Designers by suggesting that perhaps it should be changed to a more relevant title of Interaction Architect, …
User Interaction in Automated Systems
Ann Light has posted a useful link in Usability News to an IBM Research paper by D.?M. Russell, et al. titled, Dealing with ghosts: Managing the user experience of autonomic …
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 …
EyeToy for Playstation2
The latest add-on for the Sony Playstation2, EyeToy – an interactive camera that captures your movements and reacts to them. The camera plugs into the USB port of your PS2 …
Yugop Nakamura’s – NEC Ecotonoha
Here is Flash and Art pioneer Yugop Nakamura’s latest project, “ecotonoha”. The project is based around the nurturing of virtual tree communities, whilst at the same time contributing to the …
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 …
The theory behind User Interface Design
Here are two interesting articles by Mauro Marinilli on User Interface Design commenting on Usability Heuristics such as, knowing your user, minimising load, maintaining consistency following standards and displaying system …
Interaction Design by David Lu
There are some great Interface and Interaction Design works in David Lu’s portfolio website. Some of his physical interactive projects include, a Phone Dial Web browser, visualization work such as …