Skip to main content

Home/ Science Technology Society/ Group items tagged now.

Rss Feed Group items tagged

shalani mujer

Certified Computer Support Specialists - 1 views

I am having trouble with my computer lately. When it does not freeze it reboots automatically. I could not point out the exact reason why it happens. I tried fixing it on my own but it never worked...

computer support specialists

started by shalani mujer on 10 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Philip Solars

The Must Have Solar Equipment - 0 views

started by Philip Solars on 28 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
julia Dexter

10 Useful Specifics of Windows 7 - 0 views

  •  
    You may have applied many tweaks to customize your Windows 7, or resolve major issues in it. And by now, you may have been considering yourself an effectual player of this operating system
David Mills

Making My Fleet Business More successful - 1 views

I admit managing my fleet business has been very challenging. There were even times when I wanted to give up because I could no longer figure out how to make it succeed considering that I have alr...

started by David Mills on 11 Oct 13 no follow-up yet
Todd Suomela

Hello, Darkness - 96.03 - 0 views

  • But the implication of electricity in the sleep deficit seems hard to argue with. Whatever it is that we wish or are made to do--pursue leisure, earn a living--there are simply far more usable hours now in which to do it
  • In the United States at midnight more than five million people are at work at full-time jobs. Supermarkets, gas stations, copy shops--many of these never close.
  • Living with electric lights makes it difficult to retrieve the experience of a non-electrified society. For all but the very wealthy, who could afford exorbitant arrays of expensive artificial lights, nightfall brought the works of daytime to a definitive end. Activities that need good light--where sharp tools are wielded or sharply defined boundaries maintained; purposeful activities designed to achieve specific goals; in short, that which we call work--all this subsided in the dim light of evening. Absent the press of work, people typically took themselves safely to home and were left with time in the evening for less urgent and more sensual matters: storytelling, sex, prayer, sleep, dreaming.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT. (The essay will appear in a book called The Idea of Progress Revisited, edited by Leo Marx and Bruce Mazlish.) Staudenmaier makes the point--obvious when brought up, though we've mostly lost sight of it--that from the time of the hominid Lucy, in Hadar, Ethiopia, to the time of Thomas Edison, in West Orange, New Jersey, the onset of darkness sharply curtailed most kinds of activity for most of our ancestors.
  •  
    Speculative connections between electric lighting, sleep deficits, and health.
  •  
    I wonder if the driving force behind the sleep deficit is in fact more pervasive, and indeed global in nature: the triumph of light.
Felipp Tam

Two Thumbs Up for Hotels Cagayan de Oro - 1 views

Among the many hotels Cagayan de Oro, I consider Cagayan de Oro Hotels to be the best hotel I have ever stayed at. They offer great amenities that make your stay a very relaxing one. As member of ...

travel hotels of in Park Hotel map tour Tourism National

started by Felipp Tam on 14 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Pump Wat

Best Quality Clean Water Pumps - 1 views

In the previous months, I was looking for quality water pumps for my house that will ensure safe drinking water for my family. I have asked several friends where I could possibly look for the best ...

water pumps

started by Pump Wat on 15 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
Todd Suomela

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) by John M. Carroll - Interaction-Design.org: HCI, Usab... - 0 views

  • The challenge of personal computing became manifest at an opportune time. The broad project of cognitive science, which incorporated cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive anthropology, and the philosophy of mind, had formed at the end of the 1970s. Part of the programme of cognitive science was to articulate systematic and scientifically-informed applications to be known as "cognitive engineering". Thus, at just the point when personal computing presented the practical need for HCI, cognitive science presented people, concepts, skills, and a vision for addressing such needs. HCI was one of the first examples of cognitive engineering. Other historically fortuitous developments contributed to establishment of HCI. Software engineering, mired in unmanageable software complexity in the 1970s, was starting to focus on nonfunctional requirements, including usability and maintainability, and on non-linear software development processes that relied heavily on testing. Computer graphics and information retrieval had emerged in the 1970s, and rapidly came to recognize that interactive systems were the key to progressing beyond early achievements. All these threads of development in computer science pointed to the same conclusion: The way forward for computing entailed understanding and better empowering users.
  • One of the most significant achievements of HCI is its evolving model of the integration of science and practice. Initially this model was articulated as a reciprocal relation between cognitive science and cognitive engineering. Later, it ambitiously incorporated a diverse science foundation, notably Activity Theory, distributed cognition, and ethnomethodology, and a culturally embedded conception of human activity, including the activities of design and technology development. Currently, the model is incorporating design practices and research across a broad spectrum. In these developments, HCI provides a blueprint for a mutual relation between science and practice that is unprecedented.
  • In the latter 1980s and early 1990s, HCI assimilated ideas from Activity Theory, distributed cognition, and ethnomethodology. This comprised a fundamental epistemological realignment. For example, the representational theory of mind, a cornerstone of cognitive science, is no longer axiomatic for HCI science. Information processing psychology and laboratory user studies, once the kernel of HCI research, became important, but niche areas. The most canonical theory-base in HCI now is socio-cultural, Activity Theory. Field studies became typical, and eventually dominant as an empirical paradigm. Collaborative interactions, that is, groups of people working together through and around computer systems (in contrast to the early 1980s user-at-PC situation) have become the default unit of analysis. It is remarkable that such fundamental realignments were so easily assimilated by the HCI community.
Precious Smith

Water Filters For Safe Drinking Water - 1 views

I can never be sure of the quality of the tap water that my family is drinking. With that, I need to take the extra mile of pre-caution to be safe. So I heard about Body Guard Water Systems that pr...

Water filter Philippines

started by Precious Smith on 10 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
« First ‹ Previous 41 - 50 of 50
Showing 20 items per page