31st
May
2001
“The Adaptive Systems & Interaction group (ASI) pursues research on automated reasoning, adaptation, and human-computer interaction. Interests of the group include principles and applications of decision making and learning, computation in the face of complexity, techniques for information management and search, and the development and evaluation of innovative designs for visualization and interaction.”
posted in Interaction design | Permalink |
31st
May
2001
“The choice of font used in e-mails and type-written letters could say more about an individual’s personality than their creative writing skills. Graphology — the art of studying handwriting — has been used for centuries to try to analyse people’s characters, but since the demise of personal handwriting, the experts have moved on to typefaces to look for clues to our identities.”
posted in Typography | Permalink |
31st
May
2001
“The goal of universal usability is to enable the widest range of users to benefit from web services. This website contains recommendations and information resources for web developers who wish to accommodate users with slow modems, small screens, text-only, and wireless devices. It deals with content design issues such as translation to other languages, plus access for novice, low educated and low motivated users, children and elders. The website also covers design guidance for blind, deaf, cognitively impaired, and physically disabled users.”
posted in Usability | Permalink |
31st
May
2001
“The finest set of recommendations will be rejected if the form in which they are received is seen as hostile or belligerent. I recently received a copy of an unsolicited report sent to a firm that seemed unimpressed with the writer’s efforts. The reasons why are instructive to us all.”
posted in Usability | Permalink |
31st
May
2001
“We are, as a species, hardwired not only for language but for narrative. A story is, you might say, an evolutionary mechanism designed to focus the attention of a group. Sometimes the point is to entertain, sometimes to teach, often both. The power of narrative, whatever its purpose, flows from a deep human need to identify with a group, and above all to find out what happens next.”
posted in Weblogs | Permalink |
31st
May
2001
“In his opening keynote at XML Europe 2001 in Berlin, Tim Bray explained how XML could make the Web more interesting — specifically, the Web’s user interface. Bray recounted that many members of the original team that created XML envisaged its application in web-enabled client document rendering systems, providing flexible user interfaces for exploring content. Instead XML seems to have found its immediate application in the backroom, connecting databases and disparate server systems. One of the most well-known uses of XML in this scenario is the SOAP protocol, which allows message passing between applications using XML and HTTP.”
posted in XML/XSLT | Permalink |
