Ci sono delle grosse differenze nel modo in cui gli utenti che vivono in zone rurali (comuni con meno di 2500 abitanti) usano i social network rispetto agli utenti di città? Eric Gilbert e colleghi dell’università...
Last week, I reported live from CHI 2008, the most important event of the year in the field of human-computer interaction, which took place in Florence from 5 to 10 April. For your convenience, I compiled...
Un’impresa cross-mediale che e’ partita dalle pagine del Sole 24 Ore (Inserto Nova di giovedi’ 3 Aprile) ed e’ proseguita on-line su questo sito, 27 noti ricercatori internazionali intervistati...
A cross-medial endeavour which started from the columns of the printed edition of Il Sole 24 Ore and continued on the newspaper Web site, 27 international researchers interviewed, and lots of thoroughly...
Is the widespread use of GPS changing how we perceive the world? A research group at Cornell University has studied GPS users to answer this question (and more). They presented today their results at CHI...
Vicki Hanson (IBM) received this week at CHI 2008 the Social Impact Award, for her 30-years work concerning people with disabilities (for example, deaf children, dyslexic kids, and more recently...
A collaboration between Toyota and Stanford University is experimenting a talking car interface that does much more than navigation, providing safety advice to drivers. Ing-Marie Jonsson is one of...
Uno dei trend che emergono da CHI 2008 riguarda il monitoraggio degli utenti mobili, che riguarderà sempre più altri parametri oltre che la semplice posizione. Ad esempio, dalla collaborazione fra Intel...
Do users keep their software updated to prevent security attacks? What could the interface do to make users’ more aware of the need to install security updates? A research group from the Georgia...
How do common users react to a phishing attack? To know it better, a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has carried out phishing attacks on a sample of users and studied their behaviors....
What human factors issues should future car interfaces take into account? The need to monitor the driver and to mitigate driver distraction and inattention came out often in talking with Brian Lathrop...