Computer Science / Engineering posts
- July 17, 2010
- 07:40 AM
- 620 views
Running experiments on Twitter? Don’t forget the bug
by ---a in Bodyspacesociety.eu
There's nothing that error analysis wouldn't fix. But I prefer to sit here and ponder the epistemological ramifications of the way bugs are impacting the traditional way we make science...... Read more »
Scott A. Golder and Sarita Yardi. (2010) Structural Predictors of Tie Formation in Twitter: Transitivity and Mutuality. Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. August 20-22, Minneapolis, MN. info:/
- July 7, 2010
- 11:25 AM
- 1,459 views
The Virtual Experience of Time: VR and Online Games
by Krystal D'Costa in Anthropology in Practice
In an earlier post, I explored the conflicts that can result from an attempt to compress time and space (e.g., jet lag). The question I left you with, Readers, was whether the physical and social ripples that result from navigating space-time compression can be minimized online? Recently, I suggested that the Internet may be a timeless state. But does this argument hold in virtual reality? Once
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Murray, C., & Sixsmith, J. (1999) The Corporeal Body in Virtual Reality. Ethos, 27(3), 315-343. DOI: 10.1525/eth.1999.27.3.315
- July 5, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 855 views
The hidden, invisible, and private web
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Everyone knows that Google and the other search engines between them crawl, spider, and slurp up the whole internet, right? Wrong! The millions of websites that are obviously available on the internet are readily searchable, Google Bing, Yahoo, and their ilk have seen to that, we can usually find documents, pages, digital images, videos, music, [...]The hidden, invisible, and private web is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Peter Mork, Ken Smith, Barbara Blaustein, Christopher Wolf, Ken Samuel, Keri Sarver, & Irina Vayndiner. (2010) Facilitating discovery on the private web using dataset digests. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 5(3), 170-183. info:/
- July 2, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 686 views
Cyber attacks are criminal
by David Bradley in SciScoop Science Forum
The internet, electronic communications channels and computer technology that controls critical infrastructure together represent a new combat front on the international political stage. Several nations have been accused recently of cyber attacks, not least Russia and China, on the data centres of other governments. Whole power supply systems have been compromised on occasion and even [...]... Read more »
Sérgio Tenreiro de Magalhães, Henrique M. Dinis Santos, Leonel Duarte dos Santos, & Hamid Jahankhani. (2010) Cyberwar and the Russian Federation: the usual suspect. Int. J. Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 3(2), 151-163. info:/
- June 30, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 548 views
The search for intelligent television
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
The electronic program guide (EPG) on my digital cable box is next to useless, it’s a vast scrollable entity with no search function, same goes for the PVR. There are categories and various ways to jump between days and pages, but it’s not like searching on the web, which is what you really want, that [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkThe search for intelligent television
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Mila Nadrljanski, & V. Batinica. (2010) Intelligent media agents. Int. J. Intelligent Defence Support Systems, 3(1/2), 128-138. info:/10.1504/IJIDSS.2010.03368
- June 29, 2010
- 04:54 AM
- 860 views
Interface Systems Evaluation & Innovation
by Simon Harper in Thinking Out Loud
I recently came across a paper discussing the evaluation of user interface systems. In it the author proposes that complex user interface systems and architectures do not readily yield to the research methods we currently use. It was at this point I started to bristle with derision in a very defensive...... Read more »
Olsen,Jr., Dan R. (2007) Evaluating user interface systems research. UIST '07: Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, 1(1), 251-258. info:/10.1145/1294211.1294256
Greenberg, Saul and Buxton, Bill. (2008) Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time). CHI '08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, 1(1), 111-120. info:/http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357074
Dillon, Andrew. (2010) As we may have thought, and may (still) think. HT '10: Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, 1(1), 1-2. info:/http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1810617.1810619
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr, Carol Tavris. (2003) Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology: Initial thoughts, reflections and considerations. Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology. info:other/1-57230-828-1
- June 28, 2010
- 10:38 AM
- 675 views
‘The Heavens Declare The Story They Trod’: Tracking Sports Teams Using Advanced Satellite Monitoring
by Robert Deyes in Promega Connections
The Vuvuzela. What is it? World cup soccer fans know it well and have described it in every way possible, occasionally with words of endearment but more often with an air of disdain. The dictionary defines it as a stadium horn that is approximately 2 feet long and produces a long monotone sound. And boy does that sound [...]... Read more »
Castellano, J., Casamichana, D. (2010) Heart rate and motion analysis by GPS in beach soccer. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 9(1), 98-103. info:/
- June 27, 2010
- 09:03 PM
- 939 views
Plot Multiple Time Series using the flow/inkblot/river/ribbon/volcano/hourglass/area/whatchamacallit plots ~ blue whale catch per country w/ ggplot2
by apeescape in mind of a Markov chain
Ever since I first looked at this NYT visualization by Amanda Cox, I’ve always wanted to reproduce this in R. This is a plot that stacks multiple time series onto one another, with the width of the river/ribbon/hourglass representing the strength at each time. The NYT article used box office revenue as the width of the river. It’s also an interactive web app. thanks to some help from graphic designers.... Read more »
Havre, S., Hetzler, E., Whitney, P., & Nowell, L. (2002) ThemeRiver: visualizing thematic changes in large document collections. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 8(1), 9-20. DOI: 10.1109/2945.981848
- June 25, 2010
- 01:10 AM
- 1,861 views
putting visual recognition software to the test
by Greg Fish in weird things
Look around you for a second. In front of you there’s probably a computer, your fingers are on a keyboard or a mouse, and maybe there are cars driving by outside your window on tree-lined streets, or through a maze of buildings of all shapes and sizes. And it probably took you just a few [...]... Read more »
Pinto, N., Cox, D., & DiCarlo, J. (2008) Why is Real-World Visual Object Recognition Hard?. PLoS Computational Biology, 4(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0040027
- June 22, 2010
- 06:07 PM
- 966 views
Will Nano-Publications & Triplets Replace The Classic Journal Articles?
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
“Libraries and journals articles as we know them will cease to exists” said Barend Mons at the symposium in honor of our Library 25th Anniversary (June 3rd). “Possibly we will have another kind of party in another 25 years”…. he continued, grinning. What he had to say the next half hour intrigued me. And although [...]... Read more »
van Haagen HH, 't Hoen PA, Botelho Bovo A, de Morrée A, van Mulligen EM, Chichester C, Kors JA, den Dunnen JT, van Ommen GJ, van der Maarel SM.... (2009) Novel protein-protein interactions inferred from literature context. PloS one, 4(11). PMID: 19924298
- June 22, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 1,200 views
App store communities
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Have you ever tried to get into the Apple app store? Not as a consumer, but as a developer, I mean? Apparently, it’s pretty tough (just ask the guys from Opera or Wobble iBoobs!). App stores are all different with respect to their associated operating system, development language, the policy of approval and profit sharing [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkApp store communities
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Bong Gyou Lee, Gun Hee Lee, Yong Ho Shim, & Ajin Choi. (2010) Let developers run into the app store by lowering the barrier-to-entry. Int. J. Electronic Finance, 4(3), 201-220. info:/
- June 21, 2010
- 08:23 PM
- 709 views
Can an iPhone or other Smartphone Save Your Life?
by William Yates, M.D. in Brain Posts
Taking a brief break from this blog's focus on clinical neuroscience research I will summarize a recent TED MED presentation by David Pogue. The talk was titled "Can the iPhone Save Your Life?". The presentation was presented live in October of 2009 but just recently became available on the website.David is a key electronics guru and educator with a regular column in the New York Times. He was asked about the potential role for the iPhone and other smart phones in medicine. David has a large........ Read more »
Matsumura K, Yamakoshi T, & Ida T. (2009) Performance measures of alcohol-induced impairment: towards a practical ignition-interlock system for motor vehicles. Perceptual and motor skills, 109(3), 841-50. PMID: 20178284
- June 20, 2010
- 11:47 AM
- 971 views
Looking at your statistical models...
by egonw in Chem-bla-ics
I do not think I have ever blogged the paper that played an important role in my thesis (doi:10.1021/ci990038z); research of one of the papers in my thesis, started with the hypothesis proposed therein. The paper had a really good idea; but, unfortunately, it did not contain the data to support the hypothesis. That gets me to one important lesson I learned: a QSAR data set of less than 100 molecules is not enough to make untargeted statistical models.
The paper reads quite nicely, and the resul........ Read more »
Bursi, R., Dao, T., van Wijk, T., de Gooyer, M., Kellenbach, E., & Verwer, P. (1999) Comparative Spectra Analysis (CoSA): Spectra as Three-Dimensional Molecular Descriptors for the Prediction of Biological Activities. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 39(5), 861-867. DOI: 10.1021/ci990038z
Willighagen, E., Denissen, H., Wehrens, R., & Buydens, L. (2006) On the Use of H and C 1D NMR Spectra as QSPR Descriptors . Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 46(2), 487-494. DOI: 10.1021/ci050282s
- June 15, 2010
- 05:25 AM
- 673 views
Model-Based User Interfaces and the Web
by Simon Harper in Thinking Out Loud
This maybe just what we need to start moving deep cognitive understandings of the Web Ergonomics of users into a form that can help us simulate and apply this knowledge to instances of Web Interactivity, sort of a CogTool on steroids.... Read more »
Dominik Heckmann, & Antonio Krueger. (2003) A User Modeling Markup Language (UserML) for Ubiquitous Computing . LNCS User Modeling 2003, 1(1), 148. info:/10.1007/3-540-44963-9_55
Dominik Heckmann, Tim Schwartz, Boris Brandherm, Michael Schmitz, & Margeritta von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. (2005) Gumo – The General User Model Ontology . User Modeling 2005, 1(1), 428-432. info:/10.1007/11527886_58
- June 8, 2010
- 06:16 AM
- 938 views
‘As We May Think’ at 65
by Simon Harper in Thinking Out Loud
At 65 ‘As We May Think’ has reached its pensionable age but as yet is showing no signs of retiring.... Read more »
Vannevar Bush. (1945) As We May Think. ATLANTIC MAGAZINE. info:/
- June 1, 2010
- 08:59 AM
- 838 views
Web4All Conference 2010
by Simon Harper in Thinking Out Loud
This years conference focused on Developing Regions wishing to investigate accessibilities Common Goals and Common Problems. The rationale was that the community thought that a revolution in the information society was starting, based on the use of mobile phones in developing countries. The hyper-growth of mobile phone penetration was deeply changing the lives of people in most of the world; their ways of communicating, working, learning, and structuring their societies. The promising next step ........ Read more »
Andy Brown, Caroline Jay, and Simon Harper. (2010) Audio access to calendars. W4A '10: Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 1(1), 1-10. info:/10.1145/1805986.1806028
Brian Kelly, Sarah Lewthwaite, and David Sloan. (2010) Developing countries; developing experiences: approaches to accessibility for the real world. W4A '10: Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 1(1), 1-4. info:/10.1145/1805986.1805992
- May 28, 2010
- 02:23 AM
- 945 views
The University of Twitter, UK: A Quick Survey
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
Many people are still trying to work out exactly what twitter is good for but with more than 41 million users worldwide [1], the website is clearly popular with those who like to communicate via short “sound bites” of 140 characters or less. Communication is an important part of what Universities are all about, so [...]... Read more »
Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, & Sue Moon. (2010) What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?. WWW '10: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web, New York, NY, USA, 591-600. DOI: 10.1145/1772690.1772751
Amy Maxmen. (2010) Science Networking Gets Serious. Cell, 141(3), 387-389. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.04.019
- May 25, 2010
- 08:26 AM
- 435 views
Evolutionary approaches to Bilingualism
by Sean Roberts in The Adventures of Auck
Video of a talk on Language Evolution and Bilingualism from the University Of Edinburgh's LEL Postgraduate Conference... Read more »
Frank MC, Goodman ND, & Tenenbaum JB. (2009) Using speakers' referential intentions to model early cross-situational word learning. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 20(5), 578-85. PMID: 19389131
Hunag, Y. (2009) Supporting Meaningful Social Networks. Technical Report, ECS, University of Southampton. info:/
Byers-Heinlein K, & Werker JF. (2009) Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: infants' language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic. Developmental science, 12(5), 815-23. PMID: 19702772
- May 25, 2010
- 04:44 AM
- 814 views
That Pesky Number 7
by Simon Harper in Thinking Out Loud
In reality then, we have trouble differentiating uni-dimensional stimuli such as audible tones played without reference to each other, but we can differentiate more than seven tones when played in a sequence, or separately when multiple dimensions such as loudness and pitch are varied. Further, we are able to remember more then seven things within a list especially if those things are related or can be judged relatively, or occur as part of a sequence.... Read more »
MILLER GA. (1956) The magical number seven plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological review, 63(2), 81-97. PMID: 13310704
- May 21, 2010
- 11:28 AM
- 526 views
myExperiment: The Videos
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
myExperiment is a research project that is exploring models, techniques and infrastructure for sharing digital items associated with research , especially scientific workflows. The project is funded by the Joint Information Standards Committee (JISC) as part of a series of projects building Virtual Research Environments (VRE’s) and is run by Dave De Roure and Carole [...]... Read more »
David De Roure, Carole Goble, & Robert Stevens. (2007) Designing the myExperiment Virtual Research Environment for the Social Sharing of Workflows. IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 603-610. DOI: 10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2007.29
David De Roure, Carole Goble, Jiten Bhagat, Don Cruickshank, Antoon Goderis, Danius Michaelides, & David Newman. (2008) myExperiment: Defining the Social Virtual Research Environment. IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience, 2008. eScience '08., 182-189. DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2008.86
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