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Persuasive Technology is a young and vibrant research field, focusing on how interactive technologies may be used to create, maintain, or change human thought and behavior. Combining well-established research methods and traditions from epistemology, rhetoric, social psychology, communication, and information science with cutting-edge technologies brings about a special flavor characteristic of the Persuasive Technology conferences.

The DUX conference is a collaboration between ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, and AIGA since the inaugural 2003 conference. The conferences gather together researchers and practitioners of all design disciplines and related fields to share their stories and experiences on how the needs and goals of both users and businesses are met through design.

This web site gives you access to the complete set of UIST papers (full text access requires a subscription to the ACM Digital Library), to the UIST adjunct proceedings since 2002, and to all the videos published at UIST since 1995.

UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by ACM's special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and computer graphics (SIGGRAPH), UIST brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW.

TEI, the conference on tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction, is about HCI, design, interactive art, user experience, tools and technologies, with a strong focus on how computing can bridge atoms and bits into cohesive interactive systems.

The best UX tips, tricks and resources from across the web

Welcome to the Design and User Experience Library. This library includes basic information about usability and usability methods, as well as information about UI components, and various design guidelines.

In Raskin's head, an information appliance would be a computing device with one single purpose—like a toaster makes toast, and a microwave oven heats up food. This gadget would be so easy to use that anyone would be able to grab it, and start playing with it right away, without any training whatsoever. It would have the right number of buttons, in the right position, with the right software. In fact, an information appliance—which was always networked—would be so easy to use that it would become invisible to the user, just part of his or her daily life.

The An Event Apart conference in San Francisco, CA last month introduced me to a lot of interesting projects, frameworks, and tools for Web development. Though some of these have been around for a while, seeing them all together (compiled across all the speaker's presentations) got me really excited about what can be done online. So you can share in that excitement too, here's the list.

For some time I’ve been meaning to test my small collection of PDA/smartphone gadgets to see which of their methods of input was quickest. The iPhone’s software keyboard? The Newton’s handwriting recognition? Palm’s Graffiti? With the possible imminent arrival of a tablet from Apple that will save the world, it seemed a good time to get round to the test.

A European Union project that provides usability and user centred design resources to practitioners, managers and EU projects.

This page provides access to some of the publications that are available externally. We are in a 'rebuild process'. We are creating a new collection of Technical Reports and redeveloping our publications database and retrieval system. You will also find additional publication listings on personal and project pages.

It's a look at how people will be connecting not only with one another,but also with every place and thing in the world, as well as the novelways in which they will use these connections to enhance their lives. The research being conducted at Nokia Research Center focuses on fourareas identified as: Rich Context Modeling, New User Interface, HighPerformance Mobile Platform and Cognitive Radio. Together, they explore the experiencespeople will have in the future, the technology and interfaces they willuse, and the infrastructure required to make it happen.