When I hear or read that line, it’s like a red flag in front of a bull, a warning light. It’s translation is: “Hello user experience, haven’t seen you for a while, but I got it right.”
The best addition to it is: “…and no manual is needed.”
With our researchers we recently talked about ways to share interesting stuff. Email is for other purposes, but here: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/roman.bednarik you can find a list and feed of the things I found interesting. Send me yours!
Try to read such text in low light, such as in the evening with just a little reading lamp on. Try a wider paragraph width, larger line-spacing. A 150% of this blog will make it too.
Then look away from the text. You won’t see a thing, but just nice blinds, all ‘burned’ into your retina. The recovery of vision seems much longer than from a black-on-white scheme (reading a newspaper on a direct sun).
And why do I then use the scheme? It looks good. But after this experience, I am considering a change to basic.
It seems like every conference, workshop, and meeting now sends out deadline extensions (including the events organized by us). Can the financial crisis be the cause that there is not enough submissions?
So, the ETRA latest proceedings are online.
Acceptance rate of 31% is quite tough. We got a short paper about eye-movement biometrics, check it out!
During today’s interview with Henrik Hansson, I produced few bright ideas for which you can quote me (paraphrased, the original will be soon online, hope not):
R: “You go twenty kilometers away from Joensuu and there is nothing.” – when comparing North-Carelia with Africa.
H: “Is there any special characteristics a phd student must have?” R: “Let me think for a while…hm, no.”
R: “If I don’t hear anything from a student in one week, I start to be afraid he might be sick!”
H: “How did you select the topic of your thesis?” R: “Well, we were building a usability lab, that’s how it happened.”
You must have heard about the ratification process of LT. At the time of the writing, most countries 26 out of 28, the Irish included (they had a second go and said OK), had approved=ratified the treaty. Italy is just depositing the documents, so we have one and only remaining country. (Now, there is some talk about Åland, but let’s keep it out of business, no pun intended).
The last one is the Czech Republic. Can you now use the best of your imagination, and tell us all, what is the real reason?