Archives for July, 2009

Deaf Students in High-Tech Summer Program

Posted by on Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 12:48 pm. Comments are off.

For many of the participants, it's their first glimpse into the high-tech world and first [opportunity] to spontaneously talk to their classmates.

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Toward Web Adaptability

Posted by on Friday, July 24, 2009 at 7:30 am. 1 Comment.

Update—25 July 2009: The author of the paper discussed below, Brian Kelly, thanked us for these comments and wrote that the paper is available on the repository at http://opus.bath.ac.uk/14902/ if you’d like a copy of the paper before next year. He can release a number of copies. Brian’s site is “UK Web [...]

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Toward Web development education

Posted by on Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 2:05 pm. Comments are off.

Whatever your speciality in technical communication, Web development education can affect you in some way. The authoring tools you use will change. New areas like mobile technology will provide new career opportunities as services and products move from your desktop to your browser to your mobile phone to … who knows where? [...]

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July is National Wheelchair Beautification Month

Posted by on Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:53 pm. Comments are off.

National Wheelchair Beautification Month was founded by Horace Knowles. According to an article by the Nashua Telegram at nashuatelegraph.com, Knowles suggests attaching a florist’s water tube near the top of a wheelchair by means of Velcro and inserting the real or artificial flower of your choice. It brightens the day not only [...]

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USAB 2009 – Usability & HCI Conference

Posted by on Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 3:08 am. Comments are off.

Learning from the Extreme http://usab.icchp.org/?q=node/1 November 09-10, 2009 Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria The Workgroup Human–Computer Interaction & Usability Engineering (HCI&UE) of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) serves as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange, research and development. Our 2009 topic is Human–Computer Interaction for eInclusion (HCI4eIn), culminating in the 5th annual Usability [...]

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