It wonÅ0Ö7t stop: Jakob Nielsen defines the boundaries of art and functionality in designing site?!

When Interfaces Kill ?
What Really Happened to John Denver: On October 12, 1997, John Denver, popular folk singer and amateur pilot, at the controls of a newly-purchased experimental aircraft, died after crashing into Monterey Bay, in California. He died in an aircraft that had already done its best to kill two previous pilots, an aircraft with a human interface flaw so fundamental, so profound, that it finally managed to kill.
Bruce Tognazzine (tog) now leads this back to the cockpitÅ0Ö7s interface. An extreme point of view for usability…

The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) was founded at The University of West Florida by the Florida legislature in 1990 as an interdisciplinary research unit.
Current research areas include: computational and philosophical foundations of AI, haptic displays to mitigate spatial disorientation, non-alphanumeric pilot displays, computer-mediated communication and collaboration, cognitive science, computer mediated learning systems, performance support systems, pedagogically-motivated browsers, knowledge discovery and data mining, neural networks, software agent mobility and security, spatial and temporal reasoning, diagnostic systems, the nature and modeling of expertise, situated cognition, pattern recognition, and other related areas.

Polls, hot lists, and email alerts; how useful are they and what makes the good ones good? … Any feature should be motivated by a user-centered design process, rather than as a way to ‘add something’ to the site that the competitor doesn’t have.

Effective use of forms on websites (theory, March 1, 2001) People don’t like filling out forms in the real world, and especially not while using the web. Forms are complicated, distracting, and take control away from the user. That is, unless they’re designed effectively.
Most people hate filling out tax forms, registration forms, ballots, and so on. In fact, all kinds of new technologies are being developed to speed up delivery of common information (like telephone numbers, addresses, names, birthdates, and social service numbers), and prevent excessive use of forms. Yet users are still forced to fill out forms, to accomplish all kinds of simple tasks, because forms are perceived as an effective means of gathering information. They aren’t always effective for users, and certainly aren’t always effective for the recipients of the information, either.

Web version of a apaper describing the approach to (re) design a website: goals, steps, visions…

Iridigm is developing a new LCD Dispay technologie based on optical interference.
read also these articles at economist and eetimes

Electronic ink is a new material that will have far-reaching impact on how society receives its information.
read also this article

WorldBoard is a proposed global infrastructure to associate information with places and ultimately to provide people with enhanced information perception services.

See also The WorldBoard Forum

Electronic reusable paper (Gyricon) is a display material that has many of the properties of paper.? It stores an image, is viewed in reflective light, has a wide viewing angle, is flexible, and is relatively inexpensive. Unlike conventional paper, however, it is electrically writeable and erasable. Although projected to cost somewhat more than a normal piece of paper, a sheet of electronic reusable paper could be re-used 1000s of times.? This material has many potential applications in the field of information display including digital books, low-power portable displays, wall-sized displays, and fold-up displays.