Finding Balance: Addressing Cognitive Dissonances

October 6, 2006 lecture by Joey McKay and Greg Niemeyer for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547). Niemeyer and McKay demonstrate how their game, Balance, helps senior citizens maintain and improve their sense of balance.

CS 547 | Human-Computer Interaction Seminar:
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/

Stanford HCI Group:
http://hci.stanford.edu/

Stanford Center for Professional Development:
http://scpd.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanforduniver...

Google Saree! -Labnol

This Google Saree from Satya Paul, a fashion designer in India, costs around $300 and carries a print of the Google search results page.

They call this sari “Oogle” (replacing the “G” in the Google logo with “O”) maybe to prevent any trademark issues with the search company.

Resource: For technical writing, documentation

http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/tsw/toc.htm

Here are they...Steve and Bill

A series of interesting talks between Bill and Steve.

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. For more, visit www.cmu.edu/randyslecture.

"Journeys" are special University Lectures in which Carnegie Mellon faculty members share their reflections on their journeys -- the everyday actions, decisions, challenges and joys that make a life.

User Experience Design- The Evolution of a Multi-Disciplinary approach

First there was the Programer, then came Business analyst, followed by an Account manager, followed by a front-end engineer, followed by Human Factors specialist (UI guy), followed by a Graphic designer, followed by a Information Architect, followed by Persuasion Architect. What next?

A crisp 4 page pdf on the evolution of a multi-disciplinary approach to User Experience Design.

Read at Work

Do you wish to read books in office & don't want to be caught. Checkout http://www.readatwork.com . It mimics Windows XP interface and opens full screen so that no one can make out that its actually a website and not your desktop. 

The books are neatly arranged in the folders on desktop and the books open in PowerPont format. The content is actually presented in typical powerpoint slides. Check it out. It's real fun.

Face Search

Checkout this site facesaerch (it's facesAErch, not facesEArch). It uses apple's coverflow interface to search for faces. I tried it and it works great. 

http://www.facesaerch.com/