Privacy and social intelligibility

What would happen if your phone would explain your friends why you cannot answer their call? Recently, I (Eran) had presented this issue ‘Privacy and social intelligibility’ in the Pervasive Intelligibility workshop at Pervasive 2012. The talk is based on a

Israeli Media Coverage for Smart-Spaces

Lots of public interest in our Smart-Spaces study (with co-pi Dr. Tali Hatuka.) Its always great to see the public excited about what we do, even though the titles and quotes are somewhat over the top, at least compared to what we are used

More coverage of the Smart-Spaces Project

The “Cities” section of The Atlantic had published a description of the Smart-Spaces project, by Tali Hatuka from the Laboratory for Contemporary Urban Design at Tel Aviv University and myself. Here is a link to the article: How Smart Phones

How Smart-Phones are Changing our World

Check out this press release by Tel Aviv University about the Smart-Spaces project. Here are the first two paragraphs: With endless applications, high-speed wireless Internet access, and free messaging services, smart phones have revolutionized the way we communicate. But at

Video lecture: Usability and Social Software

A lecture that Eran Toch had given at the World Usability Day Conference is now posted online. The Hebrew lecture is about the usability of social software, software that contains social interaction:

Testifying in the Science and Education Committee, Israeli Parlament

Eran had the honor of testifying on the subject of privacy in mobile services in the Science and Education Committee at the Israeli Parlament. Here is coverage of the proceedings and Eran’s testimony in the Calcalist newspaper (Hebrew) and the

What user studies can teach us about the Semantic Web?

Can the Semantic Web be a valid tool to enhance information sharing on the Internet? Will it ever justify the vision Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila dreamt in that famous Scientific American article? Hundreds, if not thousands, of