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Year: 2006

03
Aug 2006

www.hahaha.com – You’re Better Off Laughing about It…

The ticket sales section on http://www.hahaha.com (the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal) commits at least nine serious errors that prevent users from getting the..

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02
Aug 2006

The Frustration of E-Commerce

One of the most frustrating online experiences is, without a doubt, completing an online transaction without knowing for sure whether the transaction has been properly..

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19
Jul 2006

The digital Telepathy: from fiction to reality

Can we communicate without words, gestures nor mimics and remotely? The Parapsychology confirms it, however the objective sciences were less convinced until the 13th of..

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19
Jul 2006

Internet Soul Portraits

The artwork “Internet Soul Portraits” by Mark Callahan presents an impressive gallery of well-known homepages deprived of their contents (Yahoo, Google, MSN, Amazon, CNN, eBay,..

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12
Jul 2006

Online banking security: what is the acceptable limit?

Online banking security is becoming more and more of a necessity, considering the number of fraudulent banking emails people receive these days. I don’t know..

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05
Jul 2006

To what extent do we know our internet users?

We often have an abstract and generic image of the “intermediate internet user”. In fact, many of us have a certain tendency to believe that..

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12
May 2006

Looking back on CHI: Design drivers for developing interfaces for portable electronic devices

Users of portable electronic devices must obviously deal with many constraints due to the characteristics of the devices themselves, such as screen size and limited..

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10
May 2006

Diary of a cellphone

In a previous blog, Chrystel demanded the end of useless interface functions and I thought it would be interesting to follow her lead and identify..

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26
Apr 2006

Live from CHI 2006 – Wednesday, April 26

9:00In a cold morning in Montreal, we needed nothing more than a hot debate to warm us up. Unfortunately, the presentation and the debate on..

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24
Apr 2006

Live from CHI 2006 – Monday, April 24

8:00 Here I am at CHI2006. My first impressions? The student volunteers look a little lost… It’s really hard to get basic information on how..

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