Google Cards NOW!

You’ll know that I’m super interested in Glance Interfaces and Gist Summaries. I see the combination of these two technologies and techniques as being instrumental to the information overload we all now face – and that which was originally faced by blind users navigating through complex and extensive information. I’ve been working on these topics for the last 12 years with gist summerisation papers produced since 2006(ish).

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The ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference is for YOU!

You may not believe it, but ACM Hypertext and Social Media conference maybe just he place your your HCI and/or Accessibility work. With average downloads per article running at 384 and average citations per article at 6.87 (according to ACM bibliometrics) this 100 person conference is comparable to CHI.
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Pecha Kucha – WTF!

Pecha Kucha, WTF! Well that’s what I thought when hearing we would have to present in this session at Web Science 2013. Turns out PechaKucha 20×20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images.

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Challenging Information Foraging Theory: Screen Reader Users are not Always Driven by Information Scent

Update 18 March 2013: Paper now available.

First look at our recently accepted Hypertext 2013 paper! Little is known about the navigation tactics employed by screen reader users when they face problematic situations on the Web. Understanding how these tactics are operationalised and knowing the situations that bring about such tactics paves the way towards modeling navigation behaviour….
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