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Spreading Activation
This idea follows some research into memory that says that the probability of an event to happen is inversely proportional to the time that passed since it last happened. The idea started from the...
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In this paper [1], Latour inscriptions are defined as the process by which social practices and technological artifacts become inextricably intertwined: the structure of the system mirrors the...
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Sketches for design and design of sketches
Tversky, B., Suwa, M., Agrawala, M., Heiser, J., Stolte, C., Hanrahan, P., Phan, D., Klingner, J., Daniel, M.-P., Lee, P. and Haymaker, J. Sketches for design and design of sketches. In Udo Lindemann...
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Spatiality of reference: air boards
I like this concept of “air boards”, an imaginary frame in front of the person that can be accessed with hand gestures. This space is often used by co-located speaker to symbolize diagrams and objects...
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Different form of collaboration in learning
I am recycling here this nice post of Temu on this subject. He made a nice table analyzing collaboration by looking for what are the objects (some people call them artifacts) worked out, how are the...
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Games with a (double) purpose
I enjoyed Luis von Ahn‘s Google tech talk on human computation. Human computation is not something new, as always, somebody else worked on it. From wikipedia: In computer science, human-based...
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Airboard: a shared space for gesture
Last summer while I was an intern at MSR, I was thinking about this concept. When people are discussing face-to-face, speech is enriched with gestures (more so if you are Italian ). Sometimes it...
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Cooperation without (reliable) communication: Interfaces for mobile applications
Dix, A. (1995). Cooperation without (reliable) communication: Interfaces for mobile applications. Distributed System Engineering, 3(2):171–181. [url] ——— The author reviews in this article some...
View ArticleMida’s touch problem of Eye-Gaze Interfacing
I came across this issue a couple of times and I decided to make a blog-post reminder for my personal glossary. The “Mida’s Touch” problem refers to the fact that the eyes cannot be used directly as a...
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WishTree: share your wishes
The basic idea of the application is that you can formulate a wish and share it with people around you. The wish takes the form of a seed that you need to cultivate by giving enough water and light....
View Articlegreat names are like knots
great names are like knots—they’re woven from the same stringy material as other words, but in their particular arrangement, they catch, become junctions to which new threads arrive, from which other...
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