Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore

Product Experience Management,User Reseach at Cisco Systems, India

Archive for the 'Usability' Category

Prefab : Prefab: Implementing Advanced Behaviors Using Pixel-Based Reverse Engineering of Interface Structure.

James A Fogarty’s Research Papers

2 April 2010 at 11:22 - Comments

Continuous partial attention

“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 [...]

30 May 2008 at 04:39 - Comments

Eye movement simulator

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 [...]

15 May 2008 at 04:03 - Comments
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15 May 08 at 04:40
I wonder whether any organizations have made any decisions based upon the results relayed through Feng-GUI. Without this information, it's hard ...
26 October 08 at 03:41

Usability Tests on Mobile Phones

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 [...]

22 April 2008 at 08:57 - Comments

Unlocked Apple iPhone

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 [...]

9 April 2008 at 06:09 - Comments
senthil
Was India the part of the Mega iPhone launch in 50 countries last week?
17 July 08 at 16:43
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18 January 09 at 09:29