Robot Servants Are Going to Make Your Life Easy

...Then Theyll Ruin It.

Well thats the opinion of Evan Selinger in a recent article for Wired. JIBO, the "worlds first family robot" is heralding an age where robots or digital personal assistants anticipate our needs and perhaps even start making decisions for us. Thats where Selinger believes the danger lies. Watch the JIBO promotional video below and make up your mind.


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you can easily download youtube videos MP3 format

So we have a video from Youtube, download video format but do not format audio. Many mega bytes audio save you a good opportunities for those who want to download format. Assume whatever tips you know.

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Simple is better Making your web forms easy to use pays off

Posted by Javier Bargas-Avila and Mirjam Seckler, User Experience Research at Google

Imagine yourself filling out a long and cumbersome form on a website to register for a service. After several minutes of filling out fields, coming up with a password, and handling captchas, you click the submit button to encounter your form filled with red error messages. Suddenly the “close tab” button seems much more tempting than before.

Despite the rapid evolution of the Internet, web forms, with their limited and unilateral way of interaction, remain one of the core barriers between users and website owners. Any kind of obstacle or difficulty in filling in online forms can lead to increased frustration by the user, resulting in drop-outs and information loss.

In 2010, a set of 20 guidelines to optimize web forms was published by researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland, including best practices aimed to improve web forms and reduce frustration, errors and drop-outs. For instance, guideline no. 13 states that if answers are required in a specific format, the imposed rule should communicated in advance; or no. 15 that states that forms should never clear already completed fields after an error occurs.

To investigate the impact of applying these rules, we conducted a study and presented our results at CHI 2014: Designing usable web forms: empirical evaluation of web form improvement guidelines. In the study, we examined a sample of high traffic online forms and rated them based on how well they followed the form guidelines outlined by the 2010 publication. We then selected three different online forms of varying qualities (low, medium and high), and improved them by applying the guidelines, with the high quality form needing less modification than the medium and low quality forms. We then tested both the original and improved forms extensively with 65 participants in a controlled lab environment.

In our study, the modified forms showed significant improvements over the original forms in the time users needed to complete a form, an increase in successful first-trial submissions and higher user satisfaction. As expected, the impact was highest when the original form was of low quality, but even high quality forms showed improved metrics.

Furthermore, user interviews with participants in the study revealed which guidelines were most impactful in improving the forms:

• Format specifications (e.g., requiring a minimum password length) should be stated in the form, prior to submission. The application of this guideline had a large positive impact on user performance, subjective user ratings and was also mentioned frequently in user interviews.
• Error messages must be placed next to the erroneous field and designed in a way users are easily able to fix the problem. Doing this reduced form-filling time and increased subjective ratings.
• Most frequently users mentioned that it was key to be able to tell apart optional and mandatory fields.

Example Guideline: State format specification in advance

 Example Guideline :Place error message next to erroneous fields

Example Guideline: Distinguish optional and mandatory fields

Putting field labels above rather than adjacent to the fields in the form led also to improvements in the way users scanned the form. Using eye-tracking technology, our study shows that users needed less number of fixations, less fixation time and fewer saccades before submitting the form for the first time.

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From our study, we conclude that optimizing online forms is well worth the resource investment. With easy to implement actions, you can improve your forms, increase the number of successful transactions, and end up with more satisfied users. Google is currently working on implementing these findings on our own forms.

We wish to thank our co-authors at the University of Basel, Switzerland for their collaboration in this work: Silvia Heinz, Klaus Opwis and Alexandre Tuch.

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Construction Project Manager Software Is Easy And Fast

By Jeannie Chapman

Most builders have never used Construction Project Manager Software. They learned to do things the old-fashioned way. This means they typically used pencil and paper along with a notepad or ledger sheet to keep track of their day-to-day operation. However, as projects became more complicated they soon learned new methods of control.

These days a builder can find software that helps them control all of the details about their jobs and more. Every project is unique, so builders need a quality program to help them manage all of the details using templates that they can predefined. Using this software has helped them gain more profits in the end while simultaneously providing a better job.

Furthermore, the scheduling of duties and resources has come to be easier too. These pre-determined templates assist the manager key-in specific expenses and goals. Put simply, all they need to is key the budgeted amounts and the program does the rest.

The software tells them how much they can budget for each category and how much material should be needed. In this way, when they gather prices they will know right away if the cost is in their budget. Alternatively, the superintendent can tell a subcontractor how much is in his budget. If the subcontractor can do the work for that price they can move forward without any hassling.

Even the cost of materials can be compared now thanks to the program. If a template says the job will need 100 boards at a certain price the manager can then shop those suggestions at the different lumber companies. In many cases this helps the superintendent to save money because they know ahead of time how much they need. This is one of the reasons why the program has become so popular.

These days its all about speed and accuracy. This great program helps make the pre-planning simpler and more accurate. In the past, contractors with agonize gathering material prices and setting up schedules. Sometimes the paperwork would get lost or misplaced. Prices would rise and they would have to start estimating all over again.

All this inconvenience is over thanks to the development of specially crafted construction software. It can estimate everything needed in all categories and then help superintendent track all of the details. Some of these kinds of programs will even establish labor and material prices by region. This is extremely accurate and a beneficial feature to have.

Simply put, the superintendent can now safely bid on any job no matter where they are located. They can even determine ahead of time how much waste will be needed. As everyone knows, plenty of money is wasted when materials are improperly used. This no longer happens now because the superintendent can keep up with this issue every day. No more burning waste materials.

The bottom line is, Construction Project Manager Software can do it all and more. It will help folks to organize the cost, schedule duties, as well as allocate all the resources. It monitors hours, finances, costs, and resources. This type of program is among the the top tools to have at the office and home.

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