Snagit, Mac and Windows screen capture software from TechSmith Context is everything. Recording a video lets the person on the other end actually hear your voice. So the next time a webpage, PDF, or video edit is sent to you for feedback, consider dropping the red pen and record a video instead. Webcam recording - Toggle between webcam and screen recording during a video to add a personal touch with teammates or clients, no matter where they are. She & Me - Creative Web Strategy and Content Development Equipment for Audio recording of Speech This page provides advice in the selection of audio equipment for the recording of speech. Contents: Background | Cassette Recorders | Minidisc Recorders | Digital Audio Tape (DAT) Recorders | Solid-state Recorders | Hard-disk Recorders | Laptop audio interfaces | PDAs | Microphones Background There has perhaps never been as wide a variety of equipment available for making audio recordings as there is today. There are analogue recorders, digital recorders, tape recorders, disk recorders and memory recorders, not counting laptops and PDAs. The advice is directed at students, researchers, speech therapists and other professionals working with spoken language. The goal has been to put together a selection of equipment that is capable of making good quality recordings that are suited to signal analysis, for example the computer analysis of voice quality, fundamental frequency and formant frequencies. The field is changing rapidly, and this page will soon go out of date. Cassette Recorders PDAs
CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software Eye Tracking White Paper Eye tracking commonly refers to the technique used to record and measure eye movements. The aim of this paper is to give a brief introduction to the human visual system, and to explain how eye movements are recorded and processed by Tobii Eye Trackers. Some basic concepts and issues related to remote eye tracking and eye movement data interpretation are also briefly discussed. 1 Why study eye movements? In order to understand the reasoning behind studying eye movements, some basic facts about the human vision need to be known. This section provides short explanations of important terms and characteristics of human vision. 1.1 How does the eye work? Our eyes have many similarities with how a photo camera works: Light reflected from an object or a scene travels into our eyes through a lens. The cause of the differences in our visual field is the two different kinds of light receptor cells available in the eye, i.e. the rods and the cone cells. 1.2 Why do our eyes move? 3.1 Eye movements
GoldWave - Audio Editor, Recorder, Converter, Restoration, & Analysis Software TobiiEyeTracking's Channel Tobii Glasses 2 - New Generation Wearable Eye Tracker 19,450 views 2 months ago Tobii Glasses 2 is a new generation wearable eye tracker that shows exactly what a person is looking at in real time, while moving freely in any real-world environment. Based on a new, proprietary, wearable eye-tracking platform from Tobii that will support research and consumer applications, Tobii Glasses 2 offers unprecedented functionality including wireless live viewing and opens up new opportunities for human behavior research and discoveries in real-world environments. The applications and uses for wearable eye-tracking research span many industries, including in-store shopper marketing, user experience and psychology. In 2010, Tobii revolutionized the category of wearable eye-tracking technology by introducing the original Tobii Glasses, the first-of-its-kind wearable eye tracker for research professionals. Web: Show less
Free Audio Editor and Recorder Website testing, user testing, and market research done with Morae by TechSmith Use Morae to gain valuable insight about your product and remove the guesswork from your decisions. You’ll love that you can record user interactions, analyze the results, and instantly share them with anyone – all within Morae and for any type of research. Pluggable Architecture Write your own Recorder, Observer, and Manager plug-ins with Morae’s pluggable architecture, which enables you and your development team to build features specific to your testing environment. Learn more about the expanding flexibility of Morae’s pluggable architecture and about the plug-ins that partnering companies have already created on Morae's Plug-ins Page. Field Studies Gain a richer understanding of what customers need by observing them in their natural environment. Here's How: See How a Health System Took Morae on the Road with Field Studies: Intermountain Health System View Customer Stories » Continuous Improvement (Lean Six Sigma) See How to Use Morae with Lean Six Sigma: Visit The Guthrie Group.
Why Distinct Icon Outlines Help Users Scan Faster by anthony on 08/04/11 at 10:05 pm Icons are visual cues that help users use interfaces more efficiently. Instead of reading each word on an interface, users can scan for the icon that represents the task they’re trying to do. However, sometimes scanning icons can take longer than expected if the icons don’t have distinct outlines. If you want to make your icons fast and easy to scan, use distinct outlines over uniform ones. Uniform outlines make the shape of your icons look the same. Distinct outlines shows the unique shape of each icon without any visual noise. This concept is similar to how all caps makes text harder to scan.
9 Rules to Make Your Icons Clear and Intuitive by anthony on 10/31/11 at 9:09 am Have you ever looked at an icon and struggled to figure out what it meant? Users do this all the time with icons they’re not familiar with. And there are only a small set of icons that users are universally familiar with. This is why when you use icons in your designs it’s important to make them clear and intuitive. Here are a few solid rules to follow so that your icons don’t leave users scratching their heads. 1. Unless the icons you’re using are universally recognized (i.e. play, print, close, help), you should always label them. No space for labels with multiple icons packed together. 2. To make your icon as intuitive as possible, always make sure that your icon represents both the action and object. Paper airplane icon shows a clear action and object. 3. Icons that function similarly belong together. Icons that share a similar function are labeled and grouped together. 4. Users don’t just rely on how an icon looks to understand its function. 5. 6. 7.
px - em - % - pt - keyword Keyword Valid options for setting font-size in keyword are xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, and xx-large as well as relative keywords smaller and larger. Surprisingly enough, keyword sizing is pretty consistent across browsers and platforms. See below a test page in Opera, Firefox, IE 6, and Safari: Note that although the they are pretty close, there are differences in where the lines break and total paragraph height. Only when one of the relative sizing keywords are used does the "cascade" kick in and the font-size of the parent element effects the child. Keywords are a perfectly fine way to size fonts on the web. However, keywords don't offer very fine-grained control of your typography, as the choices are fairly limited. px If you need fine-grained control, sizing fonts in pixel values (px) is an excellent choice (it's my favorite). Windows, Mac, aliased, anti-aliased, cross-browsers, doesn't matter, a font set at 14px will be 14px tall. em The first one is the big one. pt
Designer Myopia: How To Stop Designing For Ourselves Advertisement Have you ever looked at a bizarre building design and wondered, “What were the architects thinking?” Or have you simply felt frustrated by a building that made you uncomfortable, or felt anger when a beautiful old building was razed and replaced with a contemporary eyesore? You might be forgiven for thinking “these architects must be blind!” That’s Michael Mehaffy and Nikos A. Longaberger Home Office, Newark, Ohio. In this article, we’ll discuss “designer myopia”: the all-too-common phenomenon whereby, despite our best intentions, we sometimes design with a nearsightedness that results in websites and applications that please ourselves and impress our peers but don’t meet user and business goals. The Causes Of Designer Myopia If the language in the opening paragraph sounds familiar, it’s because most of us privately and publicly mutter “What were they thinking?” But what are the causes of this lack of imagination and foresight in our work? How did we get here? 1. 2. 3.
Is There Ever A Justification For Responsive Text? Advertisement Depending on who you follow and what you read, you may have noticed the concept of “responsive text” being discussed in design circles recently. It’s not what you might imagine — resizing and altering the typography to make it easier to read on a range of devices — but rather delivering varying amounts of content to devices based on screen size. One example of this is an experiment by designer Frankie Roberto. Another is the navigation menu on the website for Sifter App. Having looked at how this technique works, I wouldn’t endorse it yet, because its practical value is not clear. Altering the tabbed content in the navigation menu at Sifter. How Is This Accomplished? In this example (and in Roberto’s demo), you’ll notice a couple of things. When you view the website on a large device, the second-last menu tab will show the full label of “Pricing & Plans.” To show and hide the “Plans &” part of the tab, Sifter’s designer has wrapped the element in a span. No argument there.