The Human/Computer Interface: Their Side or Ours?

Navigational User Interface Elements on the Left Side: Intuition of Designers or Experimental Evidence?

Humans tend to direct their attention toward the left half of their area of vision, which is known as visual pseudo neglect. Most navigational elements are placed at the left side. However, there is neither a theoretical reasoning nor empirical evidence, why these elements should be placed left. In the present study we examined three independent variables (presentation side of elements (left, r...

Are Ours Really Smaller than Theirs? Are Ours Really Smaller than Theirs?

The claim is often made that functional programs are \more" expressive than their imperative counterparts. This paper examines this claim using a particular measure of (i) program length and (ii) programming language \level" (a measure of expressive power) both from the work of Halstead on software metrics. This paper was presented at the 1996 Glasgow Functional Programming Workshop, held in Ul...

Pound's Century, and Ours

One of ours.

“With one arm leaning on the door and his back turned away from the patient, this guy talked to the patient’s mother, not once picking up the patient’s medical records. This guy is social—very social. I mean, do you see how he chats and chats and chats with everyone? It’s really a gift; I have never seen someone chat so much and do so little work. And it was a night shift—just me, a first-year ...

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