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Interaction Design, Winograd

From Computing Machinery to Interaction Design is an article by Terry Winograd that appeared in Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing. In it he points out how we have gone from computing as calculation to computing as communication and media.
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Posted on December 22, 2003Author adminCategories Interface Design and Usability

Graffiti Archaeology

graffiti archaeology is a brilliant site done is Flash that allows you to navigate different moments in the sam wall as painted by graffiti artists. It has a nice timeline feature, and a great way of representing the collage of images that make up a wall along with what has changed over time.
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Posted on December 20, 2003Author adminCategories Interface Design and Usability

Automatic Translation

The Language Tools that Google offers now can allow one to surf a site translated. See Video Pool. They have links on their home page that will show you the site translated into other language.
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Posted on December 17, 2003Author adminCategories Text Technology and TAPoR

Slide Shows with Javascript

Dynamic Drive- Image Slide Shows is a set of different ways to do slideshows with Javascript. Some cool examples.
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Posted on December 16, 2003Author adminCategories Uncategorized

Googlism

Googlism is a term coined by a site that uses Google to gather information about people, places, and events. You enter a word and it returns selected phrases that describe that person. This strikes me as an example of smart text analysis and aggregation.
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Posted on December 16, 2003Author adminCategories Text Analysis

3D Timelines

Temporal Modelling is a project led by Johanna Drucker looking at ways to model time. At McMaster we are getting some 3D environments and visualization expertise and I would like to try developing a 3D time visualization environment.
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Posted on December 16, 2003Author adminCategories History of Computing and Multimedia

Matrix Timeline

History Matrix is a massive timeline project by Shiralee Saul. It weaves all sorts of timelines together into a matrix of events. It is not complete and there are parts that don’t work, but it is ambitious and thought provoking.

Posted on December 15, 2003Author adminCategories History of Computing and Multimedia

Internet History

Hobbes’ Internet Timeline – the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history is a great history of the Internet with both a timeline, graphs, and bibliography. It was last updated in July of 2003.

Posted on December 15, 2003Author adminCategories History of Computing and Multimedia

Interactivity and Graphic Design

Theories of Interactivity is an essay on Approaches to Graphical User Interface Design that looks at different way of approaching design, including a brief history, interactivity and Aristotle.
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Posted on December 15, 2003Author adminCategories Multimedia Theory

Dead Media

Dead Media Project is a project inspired by Bruce Sterling to keep track of media that are no longer used. They have a timeline and notes.
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Posted on December 15, 2003Author adminCategories History of Computing and Multimedia

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