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Improving The Human Factors Aspect Of Database Interactions.
Introspection (hci research method)
This research method depends on an individual’s sensitivity to the cognitive skills required while performing one or more of the five tasks: learning, composition, comprehension, debugging, and modification. [..]These judgments are highly influenced by training and often do not…
Controlled experimentation (hci research method)
Controlled experimentation depends on a reductionist approach which minimizes uncontrolled bias. A small number of factors, say one to four, are chosen as critical to the performance of a task. These factors are varied while all other factors are kept constant, if possible. If…
Introduction To Clojure - Modern Dialect Of Lisp (part 1) / By @nardove + @toxi
Immutability (computer science)
Immutability isn't a well known concept among the (imperative) languages, which readers of this blog might be more familiar with. In fact, these languages are mainly built around its opposite, mutability - the ability to define data, pass it around via references/pointers and…
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Having a meeting is like throwing an exception
For someone on the maker's schedule, having a meeting is like throwing an exception. It doesn't merely cause you to switch from one task to another; it changes the mode in which you work. (14-15)
Ontology Maturing With Lightweight Collaborative Ontology Editing Tools
Ontology building should be embedded in daily work
....we have to acknowledge that ontology building is not the primary activity of knowledge workers but that vocabularies emerge in their daily work implicitly. Thus, we need to integrate work processes with ontology building processes. ... Building ontologies must be integrated…
Processing - Programming Handbook For Visual Designers And Artists
Function
A function is a set of code within a program that performs a speciïc task.Functions are powerful programming tools that make programs easier to read and change.The diagonals()function in the following example was written to draw a sequence of three diagonal lines each time it…
Productivity And Screen Size
Operations vs. tasks
Apple's study focused at the wrong level of work. Pasting spreadsheet cells is not a user task, it's an operation at a low interaction level. More meaningful productivity has to be measured at a higher level, where users string together a sequence of operations to achieve their…
Scholars' Lab
Project management
While each project needs a timeline, deadlines, and clear goals, a project manager does more than keep track of the organizational aspects of the project. The way I see it now, a successful project manager is able to facilitate the coordination of her team in a way that…
Scrum (software Development) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The sprint backlog is broken down into tasks (scrum)
The stories/features are broken down into tasks by the Development Team, which, as a best practice, should normally be between four and sixteen hours of work. With this level of detail the Development Team understands exactly what to do, and potentially, anyone can pick a task…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy
..the individual—instead of fulfilling his unique function in the world—is exhausted and frustrated in efforts to accomplish self-contradictory goals. Because he is now so largely defined as a separate person caught up in a mindless and alien universe, his principal task is to…
Being in a double bind
No one who has been hoaxed into the belief that he is nothing but his ego, or nothing but his individual organism, can be chivalrous, let alone a civilized, sensitive, and intelligent member of the cosmos. But to be lived this way, the life-game has to be purged of…
The Cidoc Conceptual Reference Module: An Ontological Approach To Semantic Interoperability Of Metadata
Ontologies should grow monotonically
Gruber writes: “An ontology…should offer a conceptual foundation for a range of anticipated tasks, and the representation should be crafted so that one can extend and specialize the ontology monotonically”, i.e. without revision of the existing definitions. Only if this holds…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Turning thinking principles into seeing principles
Effective analytic designs entail turning thinking principles into seeing principles. So, if the thinking task is to understand causality, the task calls for a design principle: “Show causality.” If a thinking task is to answer a question and compare it with alternatives, the…
Visualization as functional art
individual information graphics are also technologies, means to fulfill purposes, devices whose aim is to help an audience complete certain tasks. This apparent no-brainer will have consequences later on. If you accept that a visualization is, above all, a tool, you are…
Present, compare, organize, correlate
In other words: If we accept that an infographic is, at its core, a tool, what tasks is this one intended to help me with? Here is my personal list for the Brazilian defense graphic: 1. The graphic must present several variables—armed forces personnel, population to be…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Books need indexes as travellers need maps
Someone once said that “a book without an index is like a country without a map”. However interesting and worthwhile the experience of driving from A to B without a map might be in its own right, there can be no doubt that when the goal is to arrive at one's destination as…
Usability 101: Introduction To Usability
Usability - the top 5 quality components
Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. The word "usability" also refers to methods for improving ease-of-use during the design process. Usability is defined by 5 quality components: Learnability: How easy is it for users to…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
Discovering what another agent means
The moment we accept the problem and grant that agents may not use the same terms to mean the same things, we need a way for an agent to discover what another agent means when it communicates. In order for this to happen, every agent will need to publicly declare exactly what…
Layers of the semantic infrastructure
It will be layered, extensible, and composable. A major part of this will entail representing and reasoning with semantic metadata, and/or providing semantic markup in the information resources. Fundamental to the semantic infrastructure are ontologies, knowledge bases, and…
Agents must publicly declare their ontologies
The moment we accept the problem and grant that agents may not use the same terms to mean the same things, we need a way for an agent to discover what another agent means when it communicates. In order for this to happen, every agent will need to publicly declare exactly what…
Why The Modern World Is Bad For Your Brain (daniel J Levitin)
Our brains are not wired to multitask well
Although we think we’re doing several things at once, multitasking, this is a powerful and diabolical illusion. Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT and one of the world experts on divided attention, says that our brains are “not wired to multitask well… When people think…