http://www.michaelvoong.com HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:27:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nice excerpt from "Humane Interface, The: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems" by Jef Raskin, found from looking at a new Mozilla UX designer's concept of mobile zoom web browsing + gestures. If you wanted to design a navigation scheme intended to confuse, you might begin by making the interface mazelike. ... http://www.michaelvoong.com/2008/06/19/zoomspatial-navigation/ If anyone's wondering how to use the Macbook's Bluetooth chip under the Nokia S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 emulator in J2ME (as described here), you install S60_SDK_BT_Driver.zip at Forum Nokia, overwriting your Apple Bluetooth driver. In the emulator preferences, go to PAN configuration and set the adaptor type to ... http://www.michaelvoong.com/2008/05/05/macbook-vmware-bluetooth-windows-xp-and-s60-sdk/ My poster for Mobile HCI 2008. The main aim of this poster is to illustrate my findings regarding location disclosure privacy in mobile awareness systems. Location deception is a real practice, so I argue here that any UI supporting location disclosure to real people should support the ability to manipulate ... http://www.michaelvoong.com/2008/04/24/mobile-hci-2008-poster/ My 4th Ph.D. progress report is up - check it out in the documents/papers section. The report itself shouldn't be that interesting to most of you, but please look at the interface mockups and get back to me with any comments (shown below). I'll be implementing these soon so wouldn't ... http://www.michaelvoong.com/2008/04/23/rsmg-4-report/ Just stumbled upon this new way to pay. Why haven't I seen such a life-changing product yet? When is it coming to the UK? Visa payWave allows your Visa Micro Tag to be read only when in close proximity (1-2 inches) to a secure reader that accepts Visa payWave payments. After ... http://www.michaelvoong.com/2008/04/13/visa-micro-tag/ I've been programming with the W910i recently. Theoretically, it should be a great phone to work with. Plenty of optional APIs included, has a J2ME accessible accelerometer, BUT, Bluetooth keeps failing randomly with the following error message (in console output, testing in Java Developer mode using Sony Ericsson Device Explorer/Connection ... http://www.michaelvoong.com/2008/02/20/w910i-j2me-bluetooth-stack-problems/ If you're having problems logging in with Navizon's iPhone application, the faux-GPS application for iPhone and get the following message: "No connection to server Could not contact the navizon server. please check internet connection" I couldn't find the solution with a quick Google search, but I fixed it! Try changing your password ... http://www.michaelvoong.com/2008/02/15/navizon-login-problems-solution/ Am I the only one that has problems with the default mouse acceleration in Mac operating systems? This was one my main problems when I switched to a Mac over a year ago. It just feels 'odd' compared to windows, and more sluggish. As far as I'm aware, this happens ... http://www.michaelvoong.com/2008/02/15/mac-mouse-acceleration/ Usability anyone? Seeing as it's the most popular statistics program amongst academics you think they should have thought more about the usability of the program. Basic copy-paste facilities from clipboard? User interface responsiveness that doesn't feel like swimming in honey? How about the ability to compute variables with more than ... http://www.michaelvoong.com/2008/02/04/spss-is-bad-really-bad/ I've tried Apple's Mail application a few times before - the responsiveness of a native application to handle your emails cannot be replicated with a web application. One thing I have never figured out how to do is an easy way to select a different from address when composing a ... http://www.michaelvoong.com/2008/01/19/multiple-from-address-in-apple-mail/