The newly launched XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from conference overviews to privacy and security, from HCI to cryptography. Selected blog posts, edited for print, will be featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each post in its entirety.
By Wolfgang Richter, Dimitris Mitropoulos, December 2012
Although mobile technology has the power to vastly improve healthcare delivery in developing regions, many issues can affect the success of mHealth systems.
By Atanu Garai, December 2012
How a forthcoming user experience (UX) lab will meet the needs of the African technology community.
By Mark Kamau, Angela Crandall, Kagonya Awori, December 2012
By Angela Crandall, Rhoda Omenya, December 2012
By Jonathan Kola, December 2012
By Matthew Kay, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Wolfgang Richter, Lora Oehlberg, Lea Rosen, September 2012
By Evan M. Peck, Erin T. Solovey, September 2011
Research teams from around the world reflect on their brain sensing setups.
By Evan M. Peck, Erin T. Solovey, September 2011
It would be wise for stakeholders to organize and establish guidelines in order to prevent BCI from becoming a passing fad.
By Brendan Allison, September 2011
Can information presented below the threshold of consciousness be used to provide support to the users of interactive computer systems?
By Ryan Kelly, September 2011
For 30% of the population, lack of access to home-energy monitoring devices translates into a lack of power---in more ways than one.
By Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff, June 2011
Building eco-friendly homes with occupant intelligence as the foundation.
By Johnny Rodgers, Lyn Bartram, Rob Woodbury, June 2011
By James Stanier, March 2011
While computing has advanced exponentially, almost explosively, since the 1970s, input devices have only just begun to change. Why?
By Johnny Chung Lee, June 2010
Pens may seem old-fashioned, but some researchers think they are the future of interaction. Can they teach this old dog some new tricks?
By Gordon Kurtenbach, June 2010
Tap. Slide. Swipe. Shake. Tangible user interfaces have some scientists toying around with stuff you can really put your hands on.
By Sergi Jordà, Carles F. Julià, Daniel Gallardo, June 2010
Enabling mobile micro-interactions with physiological computing.
By Desney Tan, Dan Morris, T. Scott Saponas, June 2010
Brain-computer interfaces have the potential to change the way we use devices, and there are at least four methods for implementation.
By Evan Peck, Krysta Chauncey, Audrey Girouard, Rebecca Gulotta, Francine Lalooses, Erin Treacy Solovey, Doug Weaver, Robert Jacob, June 2010
By David Chiu, June 2010
While touchscreens allow extensive programmability and have become ubiquitous in today's gadgetry, such configurations lack the tactile sensations and feedback that physical buttons provide. As a result, these devices require more attention to use than their button-enabled counterparts. Still, the displays provide the ultimate interface flexibility and thus afford a much larger design space to application developers.
By Chris Harrison, Scott Hudson, September 2009
By Justin Solomon, December 2008
This project visualizes a scientific dataset containing two-dimensional flow data from a simulated supernova collapse provided by astrophysics researchers. We started our project by designing visualizations using multiple hand drawings representing the flow data without taking into consideration the implementation constraints of our designs. We implemented a few of our hand drawn designs. We used an assortment of simple geometric graphical objects, called glyphs, such as, dots, lines, arrows, and triangles to represent the flow at each sample point. We also incorporated transparency in our visualizations. We identified two important goals for our project: (1) design different types of graphical glyphs to support flexibility in their placement and in their ability to represent multidimensional data elements, and (2) build an effective visualization technique that uses glyphs to represent the two-dimensional flow field.
By Amit Prakash Sawant, Christopher G. Healey, December 2007
By Damien Marshall, Tomas Ward, Séamus McLoone, December 2006
By Umer Farooq, December 2005
By Norbert J. Kubilus, September 2000
By Theodore Chiasson, Carrie Gates, September 2000
By Matt Cutts, May 1997
By Sofia C. DeFernandez, April 1997
By Michael A. Grasso, Tim Finin, April 1997
