The rich web apps are bringing in more & more interesting patterns in the interaction model. Visual interaction is really emerging as a powerful way people respond, manipulate and intermediate… Think about it…it is like a non-verbal communication, more visceral, more emotional and definitely more intuitive.

 The Symbaloo web application. It aims to create a visual [...]

10 years ago the physical space had lost its relevance to the digital network. Today work-’places’ are again moving out into the physical and virtual ’smart spaces’. Today’s global workforces have a very different conception about workspaces, ‘own or shared’ resources; ‘physical or remote’ presence; ‘just-in-time’ or ‘anywhere-anytime’ accesses or own office vs. client or [...]

With the advent of pervasive systems, computers are becoming a larger part of our social lives than ever before. Depending on the design of these systems, they may either promote or inhibit social relationships. We consider four kinds of social relationships: a relationship with the system, system-mediated collaborative relationships, relationships with a community, and interpersonal [...]

Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists would argue that ‘User Experience’ is relatively a new term and definitely a buzzword. It is an attempt to re-package the old technique with a new age gimmick. The academic community has been engaged with this issue for some time now. Some interesting discussions in this context has been posted [...]

Termed as one of the brightest ideas in search customization, Yahoo Pipes, was launched sometime back in late ‘07. Indeed the promise was arresting. A novel and exponentially powerful mechanism to customize, aggregate, process the information on the web and possibly create a channel of communication or media that has all the cumulative powers [...]

As architects of the enterprise data management suites spend a lot of energy talking about concepts and frameworks such as SOA, EDA, MDA, and SCA. In times of increasing complexity and with a desire to get projects completed on time and within budget, sometimes the most important part of any architecture is forgotten - the [...]

Today’s demanding business environments are asking for more….more benefits to the customers, more intelligence from mining knowledge repositories, more choices appearing in the custom search result. And the so-called ‘expert systems’ are trying to do just that. Decoding complex user intentions into readable machine language and serving up more and more relevant information. Programs are [...]