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Website User Testing the Usabilla Way - Features

by oseres
Usabilla integrates usability tests in your daily work-flow and helps you continuously improve your web site's user-experience and conversions with high quality design feedback. No planning, extra work-hours or expenses needed. Just focus on your research, invite your participants, and Usabilla will do the rest. Combine qualitative and quantitative research and find out what your users think and do. Create a Usabilla test in only a few minutes and collect design feedback with clicks and notes.

January 2012

Tenouchi for men cutting | [ kenshi247.net ]

by Takwann
As I noted on facebook, in a dojo of 10 sensei you will get 10 different methods of striking men. I know this through experience. Although kendo does have a general ‘set’ method (defined by the ZNKR) it does – in fact – allow for a breadth of style. To exclaim that this or that is ‘wrong’ shows, I believe, not only inflexibility of mind, but potentially of method also. So, even if you don’t adhere to the method explained here, at least realise that many people actually do. What would be nice, however, would be that the people who don’t use this method to actually try it… a bit of research and self study (called KUFU in Japanese) is required in budo after all. As implied by the above, please realise that this is not some ‘how to do kendo properly’ article at all, but is presented for your (and my) study purposes. One of the well-known kendo phrases is: 我以外皆師 ‘Everybody but myself is my teacher’

Radio Interview with Matriarch of Social TV - MIT's Marie-Jose Montpetit

by sbrothier
Social TV is a huge buzzword in the TV world these days. Basically, it refers to the ways people are using social media in conjunction with their TV viewing. That might refer to something as simple as checking your Twitter feed on your phone while watching a political debate. It might also include joining a social network oriented around media discovery, like GetGlue, or Miso, where you can find out what your friends think of shows, or be notified when they are watching something. It had us wondering what impact Social TV will have on the way programmers design shows, and whether we’re returning to gathering in the living room watching I Love Lucy, only virtually. Marie-Jose Montpetit is a research scientist at the Research Lab of Electronics at MIT, where she researches putting video on multiple devices and combining it with social networking components.

TR10: Social TV - Technology Review

by sbrothier
Marie-José Montpetit, an invited scientist at MIT's Research Lab for Electronics, has been working for several years on social TV--a way to seamlessly combine the social networks that are boosting TV ratings with the more passive experience of traditional TV viewing. Her goal is to make watching television something that viewers in different places can share and discuss--and to make it easier to find something to watch.

Social television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

by sbrothier
Social Television is a general term for technology that supports communication and social interaction in either the context of watching television, or related to TV content. It also includes the study of television-related social behavior, devices and networks. Social television systems can for example integrate voice communication, text chat, presence and context awareness, TV recommendations, ratings, or video-conferencing with the TV content either directly on the screen or by using ancillary devices. Social television is very active area of research and development that is also generating new services as TV operators and content producers are looking for new sources of revenue. While a number of existing social television systems are still at a conceptual stage, or exist as lab prototypes, beta or pilot versions are available commercially. White-labeled social TV platforms have also emerged (such as Visiware's PlayAlong, LiveHive Systems and Ex Machina's PlayToTV) which allow TV networks and operators to offer branded social TV applications. On the ratings front, companies such as SocialGuide, Bluefin Labs, Networked Insights and TrendrrTV have emerged to measure the social media activities tied to specific TV telecasts.[1] In essence, these new companies seek to serve as the Nielsen Ratings of the social televisions space.

AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) : Nano Air Vehicle (NAV)

by karlcow

AV is developing the Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) under a DARPA sponsored research contract to develop a new class of air vehicle systems capable of indoor and outdoor operation. Employing biological mimicry at an extremely small scale, this unconventional aircraft could someday provide new reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities in urban environments.

December 2011

new blackberry bold 2012

by cholish
The new blackberry bold 2011 - 2012. Blackberry phones become one of the most used cellphone in the world. For you whose this phone that produced by Research In Motion (RIM) may know that there is severeal new blackberry model that released on late of 2011. One of thoose newest is Blackberry Bold 9900

Usability of Programming Languages

by greut

A programming language is essentially a means of communicating between humans and computers. Traditional computer science research has studied the machine end of the communications link at great length, but there is a shortage of knowledge and research methods for understanding the human end of the link.

BrandFolium Blog: Photopoll - Instant Feedback Made Beautifully Easy

by oseres (via)
Photopoll is a fast, intuitive and fun way to ask connected friends for their feedback. The idea behind this iOS application is very simple: create quick polls for friends to comment with the help of images. 60% of US social network users are at least somewhat likely to take action when a friend posts something about a product, service, company or brand on a social media site*. As more consumers access social media on the go, their in-store shopping decisions will be affected by these same influential brand-related discussions. *ROI Research 2011 Photopoll is the tool to create, nourish and enhance these conversations by bringing the traditional polling experience to the next level thus positioning itself as the easiest social decision tool for connected consumers.

Monitoring Israeli Colonization Activities

by sbrothier
Monitoring Israeli Colonizing activities in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza is a joint project between the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem (ARIJ) and the Land Research Center (LRC). The project, funded by the European Union, aims at inspecting and scrutinizing Israeli colonizing activities in their different forms in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, and to disseminate the related information to policy makers in the European countries and to the general public. Specifically, the project will be providing accurate updates on the expansion of existing Israeli colonies, associated by-pass roads and land confiscation. It will also provide detailed baseline data related to specific sites where new Israeli colonizing activities are planned or initiated. Methods used to collect data and monitor the colonizing activities will include remote sensing satellite images, field work, aerial photographs, colonies' masterplans, and topographic maps.

November 2011

Book review: Atlas of the Conflict. Israel-Palestine - we make money not art

by sbrothier
Malkit Shoshan is an Israeli architect. She is the founder and director of the Amsterdam based architectural think tank FAST whose research explores the relations between architecture, planning, politics and activism in Israel/Palestine, Georgia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and the Netherlands.

The environment in numbers: 1992-2012 - OurWorld 2.0 | OurWorld 2.0

by karlcow

But with so many government, non-government and research organizations with overlapping but frequently competing agendas producing so much data, the task to break through a wall of numbers becomes even harder. For citizens across the world it is challenging to select what information matters and what doesn’t, especially when there are corporate and media forces attempting to distract us from the most critical knowledge.

International marriage: Herr and Madame, Señor and Mrs | The Economist

by karlcow

Research at last begins to cast some light on the extent, causes and consequences of cross-border marriages

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

by karlcow & 1 other

The most important thing to realize about the future is that it's a choice. People choose which visions to pursue, people choose which research gets funded, people choose how they will spend their careers.

hmm comme d'habitude… oui les employés de FoxConn ont « choisi » de travailler comme des esclaves. Le choix est un mythe de société de gosse de riches.

OpenRePub

by karlcow

The Mission Provide a platform to openly publish and openly peer review academic research. This is in contrast to the closed review practices common to academic publishing today. We believe an open model such as this will accelerate the outcome of research for both the individual researcher and the community.

iOS Apps: Puzzle Agent

by alamat & 1 other (via)
When White House inquiries to the Scoggins Eraser Co. are answered only with curious puzzles, Nelson Tethers from the U.S. Department of Puzzle Research is sent on the case

October 2011

HTML Parsing with JavaScript - davidflanagan.com

by karlcow

working on in Mozilla's research group is dom.js: an implementation of the browser DOM in JavaScript. I've gotten much of the core DOM 4 document tree functionality implemented, and have started on DOM features defined by the HTML spec.

Willem Popelier | Showroom girls

by karlcow

After more research on internet, I found the same pictures on their social network sites, and more. These are pictures made by true Digital Narcissists.

Gurafiku: Japanese Graphic Design

by karlcow & 1 other

A collection of visual research that encompasses the history of graphic design in Japan. Conducted by the designer, Ryan Hageman.

September 2011

Languages of the World (Wide Web) - Research Blog

by karlcow

Chinese and Japanese also seem unusual because there are relatively few links from pages in these languages to pages in English. This is despite the fact that Japanese and Chinese sites are the most popular non-English sites for English sites to link to. However, the number of sites in a language is a strong predictor of its `introversion', or fraction of off-site links to pages in the same language. Taking this into account shows that Chinese and Japanese webs are not unusually introverted given their size. In general, language webs with more sites are more introverted, perhaps due to better availability of content. 

August 2011

USB in a NutShell - Chapter 1 - Introduction

by JJL (via)
Now lets face it, (1) most of us are here to develop USB peripherals and (2) it's common to read a standard and still have no idea how to implement a device. So in the next 7 chapters we focus on the relevant parts needed to develop a USB device. This allows you to grab a grasp of USB and its issues allowing you to further research the issues specific to your application.

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