There was an interesting, personal account of what its like in these treatment centers in the March 2007 issue of Harpers. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/03/0081438 [not free, sadly]
If you're looking for cutting edge HCI research, go to where the researchers are: the universities. Here's a pretty exhaustive directory of HCI educational links, university departments, etc.
I'm currently taking some HCI grad school courses at Tufts, and the department head is doing a lot of work in the field of Tangible User Interfaces.
For what it's worth, I agree pretty completely with this assessment. I've had a Treo600 for about a month now. Good screen, good battery life, camera stinks, I sometimes miss graffiti, etc. Now that more smartphone options are out there, I don't know why anyone would choose to lug around two separate gadgets.
Voting is a right, not a privilege. Every citizen of this country has the right to vote, meaning that if the usability of voting system is not built to their level, it is a violation of their rights. And rightly so.
Site A was a popular Windows shareware download site (rhymed with CaveDentral.com). Site B is an even more popular open source download site (rhymes with freshfeet).
I was given the task of upgrading Site A to run on top of the PHP codebase developed for Site B. Nearing completion of this project, I began toying with the automated newsletter update features of the codebase. Unfortunately, since the codebase hadn't been designed with the idea that it would ever be used as an extensible framework, the newsletter posting address was hardcoded in an obscure corner of the include files. Or something like that -- it's been a few years.
Anyway, end result was Site B's subscribers began recieving a multitude of strange emails with the subject 'Testing -- Visit Site A for Windows Shareware!'
If you consider geology "geeky" or at least fascinating, then Northern Arizona is not to be missed. Underground lava tubes, cinder cones, The Canyon, plus don't forget Meteor Crater.
I imagine the quality and quantity of the interaction that you're looking for has a direct relationship to the amount of free time your audience has to muck about on internet discussion sites, instead of doing what they're getting paid for.
This reminds me of a really excellent book I read last year called The Gold Bug Variations, by Richard Powers. Great geek literature involving genetic coding, Darwinian theory, art history, programming, classical music and the "science of love."
Hey! Someone else who's read it and likes to write book reviews (not me) should submit it to Slashdot.
Sorry for the amazon URL. I only buy computer books online, so I wasn't sure what other site was more acceptable to link to.
So how does an advertising supported site, like/. or any of the other Andover.Net sites, support the PNG format? Ad banners == GIFs. Tell an advertiser you'll only accept his banners in PNG format and he'll say, "You want me to Pee iN What?"
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There was an interesting, personal account of what its like in these treatment centers in the March 2007 issue of Harpers. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/03/0081438 [not free, sadly]
Chi-chi? Is that you?!?
It was Anthony's Pier 4, yo.
If you're looking for cutting edge HCI research, go to where the researchers are: the universities. Here's a pretty exhaustive directory of HCI educational links, university departments, etc.
I'm currently taking some HCI grad school courses at Tufts, and the department head is doing a lot of work in the field of Tangible User Interfaces .
For what it's worth, I agree pretty completely with this assessment. I've had a Treo600 for about a month now. Good screen, good battery life, camera stinks, I sometimes miss graffiti, etc. Now that more smartphone options are out there, I don't know why anyone would choose to lug around two separate gadgets.
Voting is a right, not a privilege. Every citizen of this country has the right to vote, meaning that if the usability of voting system is not built to their level, it is a violation of their rights. And rightly so.
Site A was a popular Windows shareware download site (rhymed with CaveDentral.com).
Site B is an even more popular open source download site (rhymes with freshfeet).
I was given the task of upgrading Site A to run on top of the PHP codebase developed for Site B. Nearing completion of this project, I began toying with the automated newsletter update features of the codebase. Unfortunately, since the codebase hadn't been designed with the idea that it would ever be used as an extensible framework, the newsletter posting address was hardcoded in an obscure corner of the include files. Or something like that -- it's been a few years.
Anyway, end result was Site B's subscribers began recieving a multitude of strange emails with the subject 'Testing -- Visit Site A for Windows Shareware!'
Oops!
If you consider geology "geeky" or at least fascinating, then Northern Arizona
is not to be missed. Underground lava tubes, cinder cones, The Canyon, plus don't forget Meteor Crater.
I imagine the quality and quantity of the interaction that you're looking for has a direct relationship to the amount of free time your audience has to muck about on internet discussion sites, instead of doing what they're getting paid for.
Increased libido and spontaneous erections?!? Wow, I really don't have a reason to go to the beach anymore!
Hey! Someone else who's read it and likes to write book reviews (not me) should submit it to Slashdot.
Sorry for the amazon URL. I only buy computer books online, so I wasn't sure what other site was more acceptable to link to.
So how does an advertising supported site, like /. or any of the other Andover.Net sites, support the PNG format? Ad banners == GIFs. Tell an advertiser you'll only accept his banners in PNG format and he'll say, "You want me to Pee iN What?"