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Where is the Cradle of the Computer?
The digital computer of today arose in the first half of the 1940s independently in three different countries: Germany, the U…
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Collective Intelligence: a Fad or Real Research?
A recent trend in HCI research is the extension of the long time goal of augmenting human intelligence to "augmenting social intelligence." That is, enabling not...
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Student Research Competition at Grace Hopper
Highlights of the top six posters/presentations at the Student Research Competition
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Smartphones and Health Systems Research at Intel Seattle
The ubiquity of smartphones and their increasing ability to collect and transmit information will lead the way for the next advances in health monitoring and improvement...
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Designing Effective Warnings
Computer security warnings are something we all see everyday, but many people find them annoying and ignore them. What are better ways of designing warnings?
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Venture Research
HCI research is moving out of the lab and onto the web. This new style of research -- Venture Research -- calls for a different set of skills and different metrics...
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Ubiquity
Technology and information are ominpresent in Tokyo, but nobody seems to notice; a look at the future of ultra-integrated high technology.
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Advertainment
Real-world hyperlinks find their way into the most surprising places, and in the process become a staple of a Japanese mobile culture.
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What's That You Say?
Science fiction has long told of a Universe thick with real-time speech-to-speech translation devices, and recent experiences in the land of the rising sun suggest...
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Campus Party Colombia
July 6 2009, is the starting date for the second edition of “campus party” which is one of the most important technological shows of the world.
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Designing Effective Interfaces For Usable Privacy and Security
I often cringe when I hear highly technical engineers talk about people. I usually hear broad generalizations tossed about, like "people are lazy, that's why they...
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Changing Search Behavior on the World Wild Web
Are we at a turning point in search is the real $100M question of the month. It's more about adaptation then features as most regular Internet Users head toward...
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The Future of Applications?
With the Web delivering richer content to our desktops, why don't today's applications let us seamlessly create that content?
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Building a Smarter Web
As more information moves to the Web, we need better tools to manage it. Today's tools focus on static Web pages. However, I claim that the Web is becoming a platform...
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Helping Younger People Protect Themselves from Security Attacks
One potentially disturbing trend that came out in a recent eCrime meeting is that younger people 18-24 years old seem to be more susceptible to phishing attacks...
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Media Computation: For Creativity and Surprises
The Media Computation approach to introductory computing is mostly used for creative expression, but it can also lead to some surprises.
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Designing Effective Security Warnings
How do we create effective security warnings that people don't just swat away? Here, I report on one line of research that examines this question.
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Security Education Can Really Work (but Only If It's Done Right)
Although many people in computer security think that user education is hopeless, security education can really work, but only if it's done right. I report on a...
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What Is a Good Recommendation Algorithm?
Someone may win the one million dollar Netflix Prize soon. Will the winning algorithm produce movie recommendations that people like?
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