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“continuous partial attention n. A state in which most of one’s attention is on a primary task, but where one is also monitoring several background tasks just in case something more important or interesting comes up. Also: CPA.” Continuous partial attention is one of the side effects of mobile networked computing; it’s parasitic on our
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Eye movement simulator
The image below displays a simulation of human eye movement in the form of heat maps. The Feng-GUI heatmap service is an automatic alternative to eye-tracking. Unlike eye-tracking or click-based heatmaps, Feng-GUI creates heatmaps based on an algorithm that predicts what a real human would be most likely to look at. Read their explanation on
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Usability Tests on Mobile Phones
Here’s the executive summary of usability test findings conducted on 3 next-generation smartphones: the Nokia N95, the HTC touch, and the Apple iPhone. Users with no smartphone experience conducted a series of 8 tasks on each device in order to determine how the devices fared in terms of overall usability. The study also assessed user
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Unlocked Apple iPhone
Just unlocked my brand new Apple iPhone with a firmware version of 1.1.4 Unlocking iPhone for FREE: Downloaded and installed the free unlocking software Ziphone version 3.0 (30th of March 2008), from www.ziphone.org Connected iPhone to my laptop Disabled iTunes and related daemons & services. Uninstalled Apple update program/li> Ran ZiPhoneGUI.exe software and clicked on
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