There have been crooked elections, but (while reprehensible) these have been confined to small geographic areas. With e-voting the possibility of even a tiny “fudge” having huge consequences is covered in “Small Vote Manipulations Can Swing Elections” in the October 2004 issue of Communications of the ACM.
We’ve all heard the story […]
Review ? Neural Correlates of Behavioral Preference for Culturally Familiar Drinks
Article available at Neuron Online
Strong subjective preferences must be considered in HCI. Why do users prefer one item over another, one presentation to another? Preece (Preece, 2002) refers to perception as the complex processes by which information is acquired by sense organs and transformed […]
In late 1984, this writer spent many days playing Adventure on her Kaypro (CP/M). There was little else to do in a small remote community when the rainfall was 100 inches/year. She has fond memories becoming more proficient on a computer while immersed in the game. There was no GUI; the game was command line. […]
Whee, I will be going to Accelerating Change 2004: Physical Space, Virtual Space and Interface. One of my interests is telepresence, a boundary where physical and virtual space meet. See an example in blue-c and the Magic Wall, also a telepresence.
Privacy issues stir most of us. We don’t like our private information given out/sold to companies. Privacy rights, per se, are not enshrined for us, as they are for citizens in the EU. Perhaps we now, more than ever, need to codify our privacy. Why? The truly objectionable parts of CAPPS II and Total Information […]
Today in the MIT Technology Review there is an interesting article How Technology Failed in Iraq (registration may be required). The digital divide affected the troops. Information gereally did get to the higher officers, but the ground forces were not briefed as they should have been. Bandwidth communications, slow downloads, and software failures contributed to […]
A Supreme Court Justice is appointed for life… and so are Federal judges at the U.S. District Court and at the federal appeals court. Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges, and district court judges are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate. There are 13 circuit courts and each […]