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The Web is finally starting to behave like a butler
19 January 2010 | Ellen Isaacs
When the Web was just beginning to take hold back in the mid-1990s, I remember thinking, “This is great for getting access to information, but it’s setting user interfaces back about 10 years.” It's now 15 years later, but I’m happy to say that we’ve caught up and are finally starting to surpass where we left off. The Web has moved from a face without a brain, to just a pretty face, to a helpful butler that supports users' tasks and anticipates their needs in an unobtrusive way.
Making projectors more social?
29 June 2009 | Yutaka Yamauchi
So many of us get frustrated with projectors. When you connect your display cable, the image doesn't show, or it's stretched, or it's cut off. You try to troubleshoot but as the audience is waiting quietly, you have to give up and blame the projector. Projectors are interesting to us because they imply a social activity, but are not in fact social. You need to use a projector in front of an audience that is looking at you -- but is the current design appropriate? How can we go about designing such a technology?
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