Barr, P., et al. published/presented a great paper at the Fourth Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC2003) in Adelaide earlier this year, titled Icons R Icons. The paper looks at the …
Crossings: eJournal of Art and Technology
Crossings is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal that aims to explore the areas where technology and art intersect. The Journal is published by the University of Dublin with two issues …
Language, music, syntax and the brain
A really interesting high-level article by Aniruddh D. Patel and published in Nature Neuroscience which looks at the comparative study and cognitive theory of music and language and its representation …
The usability of Linux and Windows XP
ComputerWorld comment on a research study by Relevantive which compares the usability of Linux and Windows XP, with XP slightly ahead. The study looked at how easily two groups of …
Wikipedia, the free multilingual encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual project created to complete an accurate open content encyclopedia. It was started in January 2001 so far contains 149958 articles in it’s English version. The Spanish …
An overview of Semiotics
There is a great article by Challis Hodge in boxes and arrows titled, Semiotics: A Primer for Designers. It is a great introduction on semiotics which comments on its origins …
MIT’s OpenCourseWare lectures notes in Cognitive Science
MIT OpenCourseWare lectures/courses on Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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 …
IBM Systems Journal on Knowledge Management
The IBM Systems Journal have a series of interesting papers on Knowledge Management topics including, Human and Social factors, Speech as a knowledge resource, Where did KM come from?, Strategic …
The UN 2003 Human Development Reports
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have release a copy of the 2003 Human Development Reports which indicate a series of global statistical trends and indexes in human development. The …
Usability research papers in New Architect Mag
There are some excellent and useful Usability Research papers in the New Architect Archive. You will need to subscribe to read.
Harvard Referencing methods
Harvard Referencing methods ::: http://lisweb.curtin.edu.au/guides/handouts/harvard.html
University of Toronto’s Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP)
Some of the work being created at the University of Toronto’s Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP). A research laboratory within the Computer Science Department advancing the research and graduate instruction in …
The combat against biological warfare
Interesting article on the combat against biological warfare, as state-of-the-art UK laboratory produces tens of thousands of doses of anthrax vaccine. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health