Microsoft Research: Collaboration and Multimedia Systems Group
USA Today: Anthropologists adapt technology to world’s cultures. “She and two colleagues were doing fieldwork for their employer, Motorola, investigating how the company could best enter the
emerging markets of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. They found that people in the Caspian Sea area have learned to read the numbers on bar codes to see where products were manufactured. The buyers believe that products from American companies are better if they were built in America.”
White Paper: Design for what? Six Dimensions of Activity (PDF)
Understanding Interactivity: Steps to a Phenomenology of Human-Computer Interaction, by Dag Svanaes. (4MB PDF). This is a 294-page book that is definitely on my list of things to read next, perhaps on the plane…
Authentication architecture links:
- Evaluation of the GLOBUS authentication architecture
- The Nareau Project (Identity Management)
- Distributed single sign-on (SSO) system
- A White Paper on Authentication and Access Management Issues in Cross-organizational Use of Networked Information Resources
- iPlanet: Chapter 13, Developing Custom Authentication Modules
- Center for Democracy and Technology: Identity, Authentication & Digital Certificates
- User Authentication and Authorization in the Java(TM) Platform
- P-Synch: Open architecture for authentication
- 12 Key Readings – on authentication and authorization
- A Distributed Architecture for Resource Discovery Using Metadata
Adam Fields sent me this link: Zero Knowledge Protocols and Small Systems
TechWeb: Can Sharing User Data Speed E-Commerce?
Flying [dead] cows! [via Boing Boing]
Usability Issues in Agent Applications: What Should the Designer be Aware of
Posted by Cameron Barrett at July 27, 2001 09:34 PM