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The Design Space of Ubiquitous Mobile Input

[Ballagas et al., 2008] presents a design space of mobile input techniques with five dimensions: graphical subtask (position, orient and select), dimensionality, relative vs absolute movement, interaction style (direct vs indirect) and feedback (continuous vs discrete).

Here's my review. Comments are appreciated...

Hybrid Recommender Systems: Survey and Experiments

In [Burke, 2002], Robin Burke makes a survey of existing recommender techniques and systems and he also presents and evaluates a hybrid recommender system.

Burke defines a recommender system as "any system that produces individualized recommendations as output or has the effect of guiding the user in a personalized way to interesting or useful objects in a large space of possible options." Put differently, a recommender system assists users in finding relevant information (for the specific user) from a large information space.

Tenho sido contactado várias vezes sobre a existência de cursos sobre Processing. Aqui fica a lista que eu conheço... Se souberem de mais ou quiserem corrigir alguma informação estejam à vontade.

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 Engaging with a Situated Display via Picture Messaging

This paper [Martin et al., 2006] describes and early investigation in the use of text and picture messaging as an interaction mechanism for situated displays.

The system was called Joe Blogg and was "designed to be interacted with at moments of 'pause'." It basically consisted of a projection which displayed text and pictures sent by people. The system was installed in a reception area of the Bartlett School of Architecture since it was an area of great movement and so propitious to be seen and interacted with by a lot of people.

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 Enticing People to Interact With Large Public Displays in Public Spaces

In [Brignull and Rogers, 2003] the authors address the problem of overcoming the resistance people have in interacting with a public display.

The goal of their research is

"to examine:

• the flow of people around public displays
• the level and types of interaction around displays
• the transitions that occur between types of interaction
• factors that cause social awkwardness and embarrassment around public displays"

This is my review of the paper. Comments are appreciated...

 Ambient Displays and Mobile Devices for the Creation of Social Architectural Spaces

[Streitz et al., 2003] presents the Hello.Wall-an ambient display designed to support informal communication within a corporate building.

The authors state that they wanted to investigate how ambient displays could support informal processes and communication. To this purpose, they developed the Hello.Wall system.

This is my review of this paper. Comments are appreciated... 

Proactive Displays: Supporting Awareness in Fluid Social Environments

In [McDonald et al., 2008], the authors evaluated a set of proactive display applications designed to augment and extend the social actions and interactions that usually occur in an academic conference.

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Aware Community Portals: Shared Information Appliances for Transitional Spaces

[Sawhney et al., 2001] describes the design of an experimental project (a prototype) that explores the awareness of information and of the activity patterns of other people (regarding the reading of the displayed information) within a community environment at the MIT. More specifically, the purpose of the prototype was to study "peripheral interfaces  that can be used in a casual manner in transitional places" to interact with information in a projected video display.

I have tried, once or twice, to improve my typing speed by following some typing technique. I've never succeeded though; I guess I'm too lazy to go all the way through...

But this post on Coding Horror: We Are Typists First, Programmers Second (although, I don't consider myself a programmer) made me want to try it again. That, and the fact that I only scored 52 wpm in this typing test (and in my second try):

Maybe I'll try that "Typing of the Dead" and see if I can improve my typing speed (and accuracy).

So, how fast are you?