“continuous partial attention n. A state in which most of one’s attention is on a primary task, but where one is also monitoring several background tasks just in case something more important or interesting comes up. Also: CPA.” Continuous partial attention is one of the side effects of mobile networked computing; it’s parasitic on our desires [...]
The image below displays a simulation of human eye movement in the form of heat maps.
The Feng-GUI heatmap service is an automatic alternative to eye-tracking. Unlike eye-tracking or click-based heatmaps, Feng-GUI creates heatmaps based on an algorithm that predicts what a real human would be most likely to look at. Read their explanation on [...]
Here’s the executive summary of usability test findings conducted on 3 next-generation smartphones: the Nokia N95, the HTC touch, and the Apple iPhone. Users with no smartphone experience conducted a series of 8 tasks on each device in order to determine how the devices fared in terms of overall usability. The study also assessed user [...]
Just unlocked my brand new Apple iPhone with a firmware version of 1.1.4 Unlocking iPhone for FREE:
Downloaded and installed the free unlocking software Ziphone version 3.0 (30th of March 2008), from www.ziphone.org Connected iPhone to my laptop Disabled iTunes and related daemons & services. Uninstalled Apple update program/li>
Ran ZiPhoneGUI.exe software and clicked on "Do it [...]
Last evening, about 45 participants had a good time attending an exciting interactive session on “Creativity and design thinking for achieving breakthrough innovations” by Murli Nagasundaram
Murli used Porsche and i-Pod examples to illustrate how user experiences are conceived in a wholistic manner to appeal to user’s multiple senses and address user’s multiple needs. He [...]