A recent study on the costs and benefit of research communication revealed that an open access strategy would safe the Netherlands millions of Euros per year. It is one of the first studies that even calculate the costs of writing funding proposals and the costs of total costs of publishing an article. Have a look at it for yourself: Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation.
Category: Research
Human Interface
I always suspected that computers, in particular the new multi-touch tables, work like this:
Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.
CHI2009 Ribbons
For the CHI2009 conference, we prepared unofficial ribbons and distributed them amongst the attendees. We were inspired by Brad Myers collection of CHI conference badges and ribbons. All of our 400 ribbons were gone at the end of the conference and a photo of the table on which the ribbons were presented was shown during the closing session’s slide show. It was just great fun. Below you see my conference badge and I found a few other pictures [picture1, picture2].

Scientometric Analysis Of The CHI Proceedings
The full text of our paper “Scientometric Analysis Of The CHI Proceedings” is now available. In addition, we published the complete rankings and tables in an online appendix. Find out where your organization is ranked amongst the CHI contributors and how the CHI conference developed over the years. The video recording of the presentation is available at SciVee.
Scientometric Analysis Of The CHI Proceedings (Teaser)
The CHI conference features the CHI Madness session in which all presenters of the day have the opportunity to make their bid for attention. I prepared this teaser movie for the CHI Madness. Enjoy!