Archive for the 'Interfaces' Category
The Deliberative Interface
Sunday, July 3rd, 2005Beth Noveck of New York Law School argues for the development of a deliberative interface to “translate theoretical ideals about the goals of deliberation into…new media to enable individuals to participate in new and more effective social groups.” She presents a design heuristic to help ensure the values of deliberation are built into future interface […]
Yahoo! Mindset: Intent Driven Search
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005Yahoo! Research Labs released a beta version of a new search tool called Yahoo! Mindset allowing users to filter results on an axis of “shopping” (i.e., commercial) vs “researching” (i.e., non-commercial) sources. From their site:
Find the results you like.
Sort the way you need.
A Yahoo! Research Labs demo that applies a new twist on search that […]
The Sociology of Interfaces
Monday, May 23rd, 2005Korean and Finnish university researchers have conducted a new study into how cultural differences influence computer interface requirements, focusing on how Korean, Japanese, and Finnish people responded to different mobile data services and how those responses matched cultural aspects. The researchers designed their survey to rank people’s responses in four basic cultural dimensions: Uncertainty avoidance, […]
NYT on Grokker
Monday, May 9th, 2005Today’s New York Times article “Your Internet Search Results, in the Round” features Grokker, the graphical search engine interface that presents results in a spatial map.
Currently, the major search engines have all limited displays to ranked lists of sites. The weakness of this method of displaying results is that few surfers ever go beyond the […]
Eliminating Folders: Progress or Hindrance?
Monday, May 9th, 2005Insdie Google points to Lee Gomes’s article “Folders That Now Seem So Yesterday May Be Very Handy Tomorrow” in today’s The Wall Street Journal arguing that Google and others, revolutionizing individual computing by eliminating folders, are actually making things less useful, not more. Gomes admits that while folders and subfolders, arranged in a neat hierarchy, […]
Blogs as Information Interfaces
Thursday, March 17th, 2005There’s a discussion at Jeff Jarvis’ Buzzmachine about what term should be used to describe “blogs” (the assumption being, apparently, that “blogs” is too techie, or has a negative connotation, or something like that). Jeff has frequently used the term “citizens’ media,” but Bill Keller suggested perhaps “peoples’ media” is a better fit. Jeff’s current […]
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