Chernobyl: l’ereditá nascosta
Dopodomani ricorre l'anniversario del disastro nucleare di Chernobyl, che ha avuto inizio il 26 Aprile 1986. In questi anni, mi sono abituato ad associare la parola Chernobyl ad analisi tecniche,...
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Myspace: differenze fra utenti di campagna ed utenti di città
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...
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CHI 2008: all the interviews from the conference
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...
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GPS AND PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD. Interview with G. Leshed
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...
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ACCESSIBILITY. An interview with Vicki Hanson (IBM)
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...
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TALKING CARS. An interview with Ing-Marie Jonsson
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...
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Identificazione delle attività dell’utente mobile
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...
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GRAFFITI-COVERED DESKTOP. Interview with K. Sankarapandian
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...
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PHISHING THE COMMON USER. Interview with S. Egelman
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....
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DRIVER DISTRACTION. Interview with B. Lathrop (VOLKSWAGEN)
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...
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INTERACTION WITH FUTURE CARS. Interview with D. Krum (BOSCH)
Industry is working at cars that will talk more and more to their drivers and some researchers are even working at car interfaces that automatically adapt to the specific user who is driving. I’ve asked...