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RSS hciApplication of Object Oriented Thinking in Product Design: Design Process of Personal Digital Partner
White Paper While industrial design and computer science have common domains like Human Computer Interaction (HCI), industrial design could benefit from advantages of object oriented thinking too. Object oriented thinking is one of... [13 Dec 2008]
Teaching HCI in Software Engineering
White Paper The problem is teaching students during their college years about Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Here at Mary Washington College, HCI is an elective that has only been offered twice. With this in... [03 Dec 2008]
Using Transformations to Integrate Task Models in the UML
White Paper Task modeling is a central and familiar concept in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) but seldom-used in Object-Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE). A task model describes the activities in which users are involved to... [03 Dec 2008]
Using Mac OS X for Real-Time Image Processing
White Paper These techniques have been established in the process of developing video-based interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of New South Wales HCI Group. With appropriate hardware, Mac OS X provides a... [01 Oct 2008]
The Essential Role of Mental Models in HCI: Card, Moran and Newell
White Paper In the formative years of HCI in the early1980s, researchers explored the idea that users form mental models of computer systems which they use to guide their interaction with the system. This was a powerful concept... [01 May 2008]
FTS for Bluetooth Virtual Sniffing
White Paper This white paper discusses why HCI sniffing and Virtual sniffing are useful, Bluetooth sniffing history, what virtual sniffing is, why virtual sniffing is convenient and reliable and how virtual sniffing works. [10 Apr 2008]
Approaches to the Integrated Network Design for Modern Health Care Institutions
White Paper Off late, there are a lot of decisions for office communication and automation networks for Health Care Institutions (HCI), which are conceived and designed separately. This paper discusses the problems of integration of... [09 Jan 2008]
Evesham pins bankruptcy blame on Brown
News Evesham, which sells a range of IT equipment, including PCs, servers and storage kit, had invested heavily in the Home Computer Initiative (HCI), which allowed employees to buy PCs tax-free. It's no secret that Evesham... [07 Aug 2007]
Achieving Operational Effectiveness by Leveraging Knowledge
White Paper Operational Effectiveness (OE) refers to any number of practices that allow an organisation to better utilize its inputs by, for example, reducing defects in products or developing better products faster. [10 Aug 2006]
Luddite government slows UK knowledge economy
News Woodget cited the recent decision to cut funding for the Home Computing Initiative (HCI) as an example of the kind of mistakes the government is making in this area. The HCI allowed companies to loan PCs... [11 May 2006]
Gordon Brown dubbed "analogue Chancellor"
News Gordon Brown has been dubbed the "analogue Chancellor" for failing to save the Home Computing Initiative (HCI). The HCI allowed companies to loan PCs to staff as a tax-free benefit, with the fee deducted... [05 May 2006]
Treasury denies PC tax plan
News Redston said that in a worst case scenario the removal of the Home Computing Initiative (HCI) from the Finance Bill would make employers liable for more national insurance contributions, and employees liable for higher... [04 May 2006]
Treasury reconsiders IT skills incentives
News The Chancellor initially said the abolition of the HCI will recoup the Treasury about £150m by 2009. Under the HCI, employees could take out tax-free loans from their companies to buy home computers. The... [03 Apr 2006]
Brown scraps Home Computing tax breaks
News The change effectively kills the government's Home Computing Initiative (HCI) which had allowed companies to loan PCs to staff as a tax-free benefit, with the fee deducted from their salary each month. [22 Mar 2006]
BT staff take home 30,000 PCs
News BT has loaned 30,000 PCs to staff for home use as part of its policy to encourage flexible working and raise digital literacy levels in the two years it has been taking part in the government's Home Computing Initiative... [14 Mar 2006]
