Blog Archives
232 posts spanning 2026 to 2026
2026
January page-4
- Welcome to Bugs Become Features 1 min read
- About 4 min read
- Accessibility Publications 14 min read
- Behaviour and Physiology Publications 4 min read
- Blog Archives 1 min read
- Climate Action: Personal Carbon Accounting 3 min read
- COMP20312: Fundamentals of Databases 6 min read
- COMP20341: Software Engineering I 4 min read
- COMP33511: User Experience 10 min read
- CS(HCI): Computer Science with Human-Computer Interaction 8 min read
- CS3352: Information Retrieval, Hypermedia and the Web 5 min read
- Example: How to Add Projects 1 min read
- Friday Night Experiments 7 min read
- Parkinson's Disease Publications 2 min read
- Publications 21 min read
- Research 3 min read
- The Battle for Attention 5 min read
- Type 1 Diabetes Publications 3 min read
2025
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- More About Me 4 min read
- CO2 Audit 2024: Five Years of Progress 2 min read
2024
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- CO2 Audit 2023: Heat Pump Benefits Realised 1 min read
- Pivoting to Type 1 Diabetes Research 3 min read
2023
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- CO2 Audit 2022: Maintaining Discipline 1 min read
2022
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- Building a Site in Sphinx & reStructuredText 3 min read
- Climate Change 1 min read
- The Bedtime Ramblings 1 min read
- The Friday Night Experiments 2 min read
January page-4
- CO2 Audit 2021: Finding the New Normal 2 min read
2021
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- Unsocial Sundays: A Weekly Digital Detox 8 min read
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- CO2 Audit 2020: The Lockdown Year 3 min read
2020
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- CO2 Currency: Treating Carbon as a Budget 4 min read
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- Why I Support the UCU Strike 2 min read
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- CO2 Audit 2019: Establishing a Baseline 3 min read
2019
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- Transportation and its Carbon Footprint 4 min read
June page-4
- Climate Change, Offsetting, and Sequestration 3 min read
- How Honeybees Can Help Us Monitor Pollution 9 min read
March page-4
- I Love Facebook 6 min read
2018
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- Return of the Podcast 7 min read
- BeeLife: Adventures in Urban Beekeeping 8 min read
2015
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2014
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- Information Sediment and Data Particles 2 min read
October page-4
- ACM ASSETS 2014 Doctoral Consortium 2 min read
- Research Software NOW! 2 min read
September page-4
- Neurodiversity HCI 1 min read
- No Brain Left Behind 2 min read
- Search Gear 20 Cleaning Up 1 min read
- Search Gear 19 Regular Expressions 2 min read
- Traditional Hypertext, 'Social Hypertext', and Modern Walden Pathways. 2 min read
- Hypertext Notes - http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/ 3 min read
- PayPal it seems Do Have Your Back! 1 min read
- Search Gear 18 - Anonymous Functions and Closures 1 min read
- Search Gear 17 - TEST the TWITTER COLLECTOR 1 min read
- ACM SIGWeb Report 1 min read
August page-4
- Search Gear 16 - json Decoder Encoder 3 min read
- Search Gear 15 - Half Way - Interfaces 2 min read
- Search Gear 14 - Pseudo Constructors! 1 min read
- Search Gear 13 - Variable Scoping! 2 min read
- Search Gear 12 - Format Files / Code Review Comments! 1 min read
- Search Gear 11- Testing and Coverage! 1 min read
- Search Gear 10 - I need your critical comments! 3 min read
- Search Gear 9 - Drone.io and More Testing! 2 min read
- Search Gear 8 - Go doesn't like encfs it seems! 1 min read
- PayPal Don't 'got your back'! 2 min read
- Search Gear 7 - gocheck, gobyexample, toml-go! 2 min read
- Search Gear 6 - Spew, Hopwatch, toml-go! 1 min read
- Search Gear 5 - A Week of Go! 2 min read
- Search Gear 4 - Go, viper, toml, yaml, config files, gocheck, reflect! 2 min read
- Search Gear 3 - Go, coveralls.io, anaconda, twitter, TDD Cases! 1 min read
- Search Gear 2 - Go, Twitter, json, twitterfetcher, anaconda, twittergo! 2 min read
- Quite Down Twitter! 2 min read
- Search Gear 1 - Go, IDE, VCS, TDD, Doc, CI 3 min read
- Why 'Go'? 2 min read
- Summer in the City 2 min read
July page-4
- On the Path to Measuring Parkinson's Progression 2 min read
- Attention Approximation - distribution of cognitive load 3 min read
- Man Computer Symbiosis 3 min read
- Finally! HCI Undergraduate Programme at Manchester 'a genuinely distinctive and technically rich syllabus' 3 min read
- Hypertext 2014 - Good for HCI, Social Network Analysis, and Linking in General 2 min read
June page-4
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- We Own the Web, and You Can't Stop the Signal! 2 min read
- The Extensible Web 3 min read
- PaperPile - maybe Good for you? 1 min read
- Making and Citizen Scientists 2 min read
April page-4
- CHI 2014 - Here we GO! 2 min read
- The Common Crawl 2 min read
- W4A 2014 Trip Update 2 min read
March page-4
- Tiree Tech Wave 1 min read
- A Snapshot of the First Encounters of Visually Disabled Users with the Web 2 min read
February page-4
- Our New HCI Programme is Getting Increasingly Fixed 3 min read
- UX Open Courseware 1 min read
- W4A 2014 - Get to Korea! 1 min read
- Patronage in Research 2 min read
January page-4
- Academic Markdown Pre-Processor (AMPP) 2 min read
- Old Research Becomes New Utility! 1 min read
- Markdown for Academics 2 min read
- Search and Serendipity 2 min read
- New Year, New Look 1 min read
2013
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- Mono-Tasking in Research 2 min read
- Chocolate C 2 min read
September page-4
- Note to Self 3 min read
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- Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research 2 min read
June page-4
- Controlled Experimentation in Naturalistic Mobile Settings 2 min read
- eAccessibility Research Agenda Roadmap 2 min read
- Industrial Ties NOT Industrial Development 2 min read
May page-4
- Users at WWW2013 2 min read
- W4A and W4A Camp Trip Report 3 min read
- Google Cards NOW! 2 min read
- The ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference is for YOU! 2 min read
April page-4
- Pecha Kucha - WTF! 2 min read
- Defocus to Refocus 2 min read
- Help Me Convince My Faculty that HCI is Important 1 min read
- Dynamic Injection of WAI-ARIA into Web Content 2 min read
- Call of the Wild 2 min read
- Experiential Transcoding: An Eye-Tracking Approach 1 min read
March page-4
February page-4
- When You've Been Off with Flu, There's Only 1 Thing ToDo, Post Your 2012 in Review! 1 min read
- Accessibility in Use 3 min read
- W4A - Are You Ready? 1 min read
- Bugs Become Features! 3 min read
2012
December page-4
- Funded PhD in Lung Cancer and HCI 2 min read
- Scientific Movember 1 min read
November page-4
- Analysing the visual complexity of web pages using document structure 3 min read
- Vint Cerf on Accessibility! 2 min read
- ACM Open Publishing 3 min read
- ACM ASSETS 2012: The Best Paper According to Me! 3 min read
October page-4
- Hurricane Sandy 1 min read
- ACM ASSETS 2012 Live Stream 1 min read
- Accessibility at Apple - One Year On 2 min read
- Let's Hangout at ASSETS 2012 1 min read
- Roll Up Roll Up of the ASSETS 2012 SRC 2 min read
September page-4
August page-4
- Is Accessibility Conformance an Elusive Property? 4 min read
- CS Impact Factors are 'Pants' 3 min read
- SIGWEB Annual Report 9 min read
- Accessibility for All 3 min read
July page-4
- Defining Deep Accessibility (or how to make Mustikka-rahkapizza) 3 min read
- Deep Accessibility 2 min read
- Accessibility & Big Open Data 2 min read
- RDWG Mobile Symposium Transcript 75 min read
- What Makes Digital Inclusion Good or Bad? 7 min read
June page-4
- Mobile Accessibility Symposium - First Glance 2 min read
- Word is getting out... 1 min read
- Eulogy - No Research Today - A good woman is hard to find and worth far more than diamonds. 5 min read
- Caring for Carers 3 min read
May page-4
April page-4
- Jim Hendler at the W4A! w4a12 ally accessibility 2 min read
- I Love Active Tiles! [a11y accessibility UX] 2 min read
- 'Define Accessibility!' - accessibility a11y w4a12 2 min read
- Accessibility the Ghost! - accessibility a11y 3 min read
March page-4
- WWW/W4A Joint Panel - w4a12 w4apanel12 accessibility 2 min read
- UX Open Courseware - ux 1 min read
- Indie UI - WAI [Accessibility a11y] 2 min read
- W4A Camp [w4a12 w4acamp12] 1 min read
February page-4
January page-4
- HCI Capability in CompSci here at Manchester 4 min read
- The Personality Principle [ux] 3 min read
- SIGWEB Interview 2 min read
- Designing the Star User Interface [UX] 4 min read
- Dynamics - Principles Collated by Source [UX] and Welcome Back to the Working Week! 2 min read
2011
December page-4
- Affective (Emotional) Principles Collated by Source [UX] and a Happy New Year! 3 min read
- Usability Principles Collated by Source [UX] and a Happy Christmas! 3 min read
- RDWG Transcript for Web Accessibility Metrics rdwg accessibility 62 min read
- Website Accessibility Metrics - Online Symposium rdwg a11y accessibility 3 min read
November page-4
- UX Syllabus [ux] 7 min read
- UNIX is Usability, UNIX is Accessibility! 2 min read
- What Now for Apple Accessibility? [accessibility a11y] 2 min read
- Why Most Published Research Findings are False - Or Are They? 4 min read
- In Love Again [assets11 accessibility a11y] 2 min read
October page-4
- ACM ASSETS 2011 Day Three [assets11 accessibility, a11y] 1 min read
- ACM ASSETS 2011 Day Two [assets11 accessibility, a11y] 2 min read
- ACM ASSETS 2011 Day One [assets11 accessibility, a11y] 2 min read
- Raspberry Pi [accessibility a11y] 2 min read
- ACM Author-Izer 2 min read
- The Interplay Between Web Aesthetics and Accessibility [accessibility a11y aesthetics ASSETS11] 3 min read
September page-4
August page-4
- Real World UX / HCI Commissioning Constrains [accessibility a11y ux] 5 min read
- Why do we need Mobile only Sub-sites? 2 min read
- Fitts, and the Amplitude of Movement 2 min read
- Accessibility 2020 [accessibility a11y] 3 min read
- UX Methods [ux] 5 min read
July page-4
June page-4
- The Cocktail Party Problem [accessibility a11y] 4 min read
- ゆいまる - Yuimaru [w4a11 w4a12] 4 min read
- Digital Umami [accessibility a11y ux] 4 min read
- The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting [accessibility a11y] 5 min read
May page-4
- Funded PhD in the Harmonised Unified Web Interface [accessibility a11y] 4 min read
- A History of HCI in 15 Papers 3 min read
- Funded PhD in Web Evaluation Orchestration [accessibility a11y] 4 min read
- WordPress Shortcodes Point the Way to Declarative Web Language 2 min read
- EPSRC Delivery Plan 2011-15 - Is Resistance Futile? 3 min read
April page-4
- WWW 2011 - Trip Report [accessibility a11y w4a11] 4 min read
- W4A 2011 - Trip Report [accessibility a11y w4a11] 3 min read
- Of Chocolate and Human Factors 2 min read
- Single User Studies Considered Useful 3 min read
March page-4
- Defining HCI: Meditations on Human Factors 4 min read
- Wordpress Accessibility [accessibility a11y] 2 min read
- W4A2011 Early Picks [accessibility a11y w4a11] 3 min read
- Open Access at a Price 2 min read
- Ideology in Human Factors & CS 3 min read
February page-4
January page-4
- Behavioural Stratergies of Visually Disabled 'Surfers' [accessibility a11y] 3 min read
- Back to Bush 3 min read
- Authonomy Points the Way to Open Peer Reviewing 4 min read
- 2010 In Review 2 min read
2010
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November page-4
- Human Factors from 30,000ft - Gime Feedback! 8 min read
- Visual Complexity Rankings and Accessibility Metrics - accessibility a11y 2 min read
- ASSETS 2010 Picks - assets10 4 min read
- Web, Art, Science Camp: Broadly a Success! webartsci 2 min read
- Mark Lombardi and webartsci 2 min read
October page-4
September page-4
- Research Ethics 3 min read
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June page-4
- Interface Systems Evaluation & Innovation 6 min read
- Da Vinci the Genius? 4 min read
- Model-Based User Interfaces and the Web 2 min read
- ‘As We May Think’ at 65 8 min read
- Web4All Conference 2010 5 min read
May page-4
- That Pesky Number 7 5 min read
- Laughable Proposals to Raise UK Tuition Fees 3 min read
- April’10 Snippets (Google Funding, Andy Brown on Insight Radio) 3 min read
- Interaction Research Dead at WWW 3 min read
April page-4
- Accessibility Equals Flexibility 4 min read
2005
March page-4
- simonharper.info 5 min read