16 July 2002

Microsoft licenses voice chat software for XBox Nellymoser's Masquerade provides real-time "voice masking capabilities" for online and multiplayer games. Using the Masquerade software, publishers can create titles where gamers will be able to completely alter the characteristics of their voice to create their own interactive online persona. Within game-play, players will now be able to morph their voices to that of the character they are currently playing Nellymoser also provide make a voice-to-ringtone generator. 7:54:07 PM     comments

Dictionary of symbols And they're not joking when they say: "the world's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols". 7:25:15 PM     comments

Wireless Software Design Techniques The short version (appropriate for SMS content): mobile means limited resources and other constraints so design carefully. 7:24:43 PM     comments

Users don't care where they are on your website Kansas State University study reveals a key difference in how interface designers think - spatially - and how users think - goal-oriented, says Mark Hurst of Good Experience: Most users simply don't care about where they are in a site, and they don't want to learn. Instead, users just want to advance toward their goal. Trying to teach users how a site is organized is, at best, uninteresting to the user; at worst, distracting. If a site distracts users enough, they'll abandon it altogether. [via Good Experience] 2:12:03 PM     comments

NYT: A way to deal with angry callers Mitel's mood detection software analyses a caller's emotional state from their voice or DTMF responses, and can route calls to operators trained to handle annoyed customers. 2:10:17 PM     comments