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AdaptiFont has recently been presented at CHI, the leading Conference on Human Factors in Computing. Language is without doubt the most pervasive medium for exchanging knowledge between humans. However, spoken language or abstract text need to be made visible in order to be read, be it in print or on screen. How does the way a text looks affect its readability, that is, how it is being read, processed, and understood? A team at TU Darmstadts Centre for Cognitive Science investigated this quest...

 E-Mail Experts in virtual reality locomotion have developed a new resource that analyses all the different possibilities of locomotion currently available. Moving around in a virtual reality world can be very different to walking or employing a vehicle in the real world and new approaches and techniques are continually being developed to meet the challenges of different applications. Called Locomotion Vault, the project was developed by researchers at the Universities of Birmingham, Copenhag...

Were Getting Buried in Browser Tabs And Scientists Want to Fix It 9 MAY 2021 If youre struggling to handle the long line of tabs open in your browser right now, youre not alone. A small new study has found many people who browse the internet experience tab overload, saving articles to read later, leaving tasks as reminders, or burrowing down an internet hole until the stack of open web pages becomes impossible to navigate.   The clutter can make people feel stressed, distracted, shamed, and ...

Nanotechnology Now Our NanoNews Digest Sponsors Home > Press > With a zap of light, system switches objects colors and patterns: "Programmable matter" technique could enable product designers to churn out prototypes with ease A new system uses UV light projected onto objects coated with light-activated dye to alter the reflective properties of the dye, creating images in minutes. CREDIT Image courtesy of Michael Wessley, Stefanie Mueller, et al Abstract: When was the last time you repainted you...

 E-Mail If you are reading this, chances are you have several other tabs open in your browser that you mean to get to eventually. Internet browser tabs are a major source of friction on the internet. People love them. People hate them. For some users, tabs bring order and efficiency to their web browsing. For others, they spiral out of control, shrinking at the top of the screen as their numbers expand. A research team at Carnegie Mellon University recently completed the first in-depth study o...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Image shows one of the specially-designed rooms in The Egg, where participants are invited to interact with each other and their surroundings. The authors avatars can be seen in the... view more  Credit: Dr Miriam Sturdee, Lancaster University The worlds first-ever academic paper which is not a paper is due to be presented by a Lancaster University research team at the premier international conference on human-computer interaction. Dr Joseph Lindley, a researcher at Lan...

About The $1 Unistroke Recognizer is a 2-D single-stroke recognizer designed for rapid prototyping of gesture-based user interfaces. In machine learning terms, $1 is an instance-based nearest-neighbor classifier with a 2-D Euclidean distance function, i.e., a geometric template matcher. $1 is a significant extension of the proportional shape matching approach used in SHARK 2, which itself is an adaptation of Tapperts elastic matching approach with zero look-ahead. Despite its...

Explanations in online symptom checkers could improve user trust Researchers at the College of Information Sciences and Technology recently explored whether including explanations for why an online symptom checker makes certain recommendations could improve user trust in the platforms. Image: Adobe Stock: David Molina Grande Explanations in online symptom checkers could improve user trust Jessica Hallman April 15, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Have you recently turned to your mobile device or c...

Credits: Image: courtesy of the researchers Previous image Next image When was the last time you repainted your car? Redesigned your coffee mug collection? Gave your shoes a colorful facelift? You likely answered: never, never, and never. You might consider these arduous tasks not worth the effort. But a new color-shifting “programmable matter” system could change that with a zap of light. MIT researchers have developed a way to rapidly update imagery on ob...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A new system uses UV light projected onto objects coated with light-activated dye to alter the reflective properties of the dye, creating images in minutes. view more  Credit: Image courtesy of Michael Wessley, Stefanie Mueller, et al When was the last time you repainted your car? Redesigned your coffee mug collection? Gave your shoes a colorful facelift? You likely answered: never, never, and never. You might consider these arduous tasks not worth the effort. But a new...