Alexander Cockburn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 306277 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexander Cockburn |
| PRENOMES | Alexander |
| SOBRENOME | Cockburn |
| ASSINATURA | COCKBURN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1074-4268 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
User speech rates and preferences for system speech rates
Prior studies of human communication have demonstrated that prosocial outcomes occur when facets of communication converge between interlocutors – for example, social likeability and perceived competence increase when people adapt their pitch or rate of speech towards one another. Inspired by these findings, we examined whether user preference for fast or slow system speech rate covaries with user speech rate. Experimental participants uploaded s…
Automatically adapting system pace towards user pace — Empirical studies
An interactive application’s overall pace of interaction is a combination of the user’s pace and the system’s pace, and if the system’s pace is mismatched to the user’s pace (e.g., timeouts or animations are too fast or slow for the user), usability and user experience can be impaired. Through a series of four studies, we investigated whether users prefer systems where the system’s pace better matches their own pace. All of the studies used commo…
The influence of audio effects and attention on the perceived duration of interaction
Loss Aversion and Preferences in Interaction
Many interfaces attempt to assist users by offering suggestions, predicting actions, or correcting user input. Although these attempts may often be beneficial, they will occasionally fail, and prior research from psychology and behavioral economics on loss aversion suggests that such failures may have an overweighted impact on subjective preferences. To better understand the relationship between interface outcomes and subjective preferences, we a…
Dispatches
Reports from Paris and Moscow on the bicentenary of 1789 and dissolution of the USSR—mitterandistes hailing the Girondins as forerunners of themselves, while Yeltsin thanks George Bush for his support—and lethal advice for Western foreign correspondents
À l'époque de l'irrationalité. Les conspirationnistes du 11-Septembre et le déclin de la gauche américaine
In Fukushima’s Wake
A Predictive Model of Human Performance With Scrolling and Hierarchical Lists
Many interactive tasks in graphical user interfaces involve finding an item in a list but with the item not currently in sight. The two main ways of bringing the item into view are scrolling of one-dimensional lists and expansion of a level in a hierarchical list. Examples include selecting items in hierarchical menus and navigating through “tree” browsers to find files, folders, commands, or e-mail messages. System designers are often responsibl…
The Impact of Control-Display Gain on User Performance in Pointing Tasks
We theoretically and empirically examine the impact of control display (CD) gain on mouse pointing performance. Two techniques for modifying CD gain are considered: constant gain (CG) where CD gain is uniformly adjusted by a constant multiplier, and pointer acceleration (PA) where CD gain is adjusted using a nonuniform function depending on movement characteristics. Both CG and PA are evaluated at various levels of relationship between mouse and …
The Great Divider
Rogue Projects
Alexander Cockburn on Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line. Ethnographic memoir of life and times with the dealers, hookers and struggling residents of Chicago’s South Side Projects
Whatever happened to the Anti-War Movement
Neither rising domestic opposition to the Iraq war, nor discussions of withdrawal in Congress, can be ascribed to pressure from mass mobilizations against the occupation. Alexander Cockburn investigates the disappearance of the anti-war movement: co-opted by the Democrats, captive to the logic of the War on Terror
The Year of Surrendering Quietly
The correlative to a politics of ‘Anyone but Bush’ has become: not a word against Kerry! Alexander Cockburn on the great silence of progressive America as the Democratic candidate pledges more troops for Iraq, greater fiscal austerity and a strong hand in the war on terror
A Short, Meat-Oriented History of the World. From Eden to the Mattole
Win-Win' with Bruce Babbitt
For the environmental movement in America the allure of the Democratic ticket in 1992 was not Bill Clinton. His record in Arkansas was poor. Tyson, the chicken mogul, had fouled the state’s rivers with an enthusiasm equalled only by his zeal for Clinton’s political well-being. Not fifteen miles
Realpolitik, Reality and Rhetoric in Rio
As Rio prepared for the 1992 Earth Summit by paving the road to the airport and placing in detention the young street kids regularly assassinated by death squads, the inhabitants of Rio, one of Brazil's most depressed cities in a disintegrating economy, positioned themselves for the windfall of 30000 participants in need of services ranging from taxis to transvestites. The Rio conference was one where the average citizen was excluded in no uncert…
The Fate of the Forest
The World, the Free Market and the Left
The Fate of the Forest
Defenders of the Amazon
The conflict between developoment, ecology and the rights of forest dwellers in the Amazon region has resulted in deadly violence
Corruptions of Empire
Corruptions of Empire
The author discusses his background, movie making, England travel, the U.S., and American politics
Introduction to Hecht Interview
Over the past quarter-century huge areas of Amazonian forest have been reduced to ashes. The conquest of the Amazon resembles more a scorched earth policy than development. The rate of deforestation has been close to exponential, and it has all been for nothing
History as the Propaganda of the Victors
The Freeze Movement Versus Reagan
Although of very recent origin, the ‘freeze’ movement in the United States has already stimulated the first successful rebellion against a major weapons programme in American history. Prior to December 1982, when Congress turned down Reagan’s request for the immediate manufacture of the mx missile, no modern
Student Power
The Fate of the Forest
Realpolitik, Reality and Rhetoric in Rio
As Rio prepared for the 1992 Earth Summit by paving the road to the airport and placing in detention the young street kids regularly assassinated by death squads, the inhabitants of Rio, one of Brazil's most depressed cities in a disintegrating economy, positioned themselves for the windfall of 30000 participants in need of services ranging from taxis to transvestites. The Rio conference was one where the average citizen was excluded in no uncert…
Defenders of the Amazon
The conflict between developoment, ecology and the rights of forest dwellers in the Amazon region has resulted in deadly violence
Corruptions of Empire
Catch 22
Revolt at the LSE
For a week last March normal life in the London School of Economics was violently disrupted. For nine days and nights students maintained permanent occupation of the lse buildings, braving suspension, police intervention and constant obloquy from almost every newspaper, magazine, television commentator. Classes and lectures were
Student Power
Complementary balance in the use of the interrogative form by nursery school dyads
Child partners were compared on their relative tendency to use the interrogative form in spontaneous dyadic verbal interactions. A given child's tendency to use the interrogative form more frequently than the other member of the dyad remained constant across partners. This relative stability in formulating utterances in interrogative form cannot be attributed to the child's producing more talk in general than the partner. The observed effect is e…
History as the Propaganda of the Victors
The Freeze Movement Versus Reagan
Although of very recent origin, the ‘freeze’ movement in the United States has already stimulated the first successful rebellion against a major weapons programme in American history. Prior to December 1982, when Congress turned down Reagan’s request for the immediate manufacture of the mx missile, no modern
Corruptions of Empire
The author discusses his background, movie making, England travel, the U.S., and American politics
Introduction to Hecht Interview
Over the past quarter-century huge areas of Amazonian forest have been reduced to ashes. The conquest of the Amazon resembles more a scorched earth policy than development. The rate of deforestation has been close to exponential, and it has all been for nothing
Defenders of the Amazon
The conflict between developoment, ecology and the rights of forest dwellers in the Amazon region has resulted in deadly violence
Corruptions of Empire
The Fate of the Forest
The World, the Free Market and the Left
The Fate of the Forest
Realpolitik, Reality and Rhetoric in Rio
As Rio prepared for the 1992 Earth Summit by paving the road to the airport and placing in detention the young street kids regularly assassinated by death squads, the inhabitants of Rio, one of Brazil's most depressed cities in a disintegrating economy, positioned themselves for the windfall of 30000 participants in need of services ranging from taxis to transvestites. The Rio conference was one where the average citizen was excluded in no uncert…
Win-Win' with Bruce Babbitt
For the environmental movement in America the allure of the Democratic ticket in 1992 was not Bill Clinton. His record in Arkansas was poor. Tyson, the chicken mogul, had fouled the state’s rivers with an enthusiasm equalled only by his zeal for Clinton’s political well-being. Not fifteen miles
A Short, Meat-Oriented History of the World. From Eden to the Mattole
The Year of Surrendering Quietly
The correlative to a politics of ‘Anyone but Bush’ has become: not a word against Kerry! Alexander Cockburn on the great silence of progressive America as the Democratic candidate pledges more troops for Iraq, greater fiscal austerity and a strong hand in the war on terror
Whatever happened to the Anti-War Movement
Neither rising domestic opposition to the Iraq war, nor discussions of withdrawal in Congress, can be ascribed to pressure from mass mobilizations against the occupation. Alexander Cockburn investigates the disappearance of the anti-war movement: co-opted by the Democrats, captive to the logic of the War on Terror
The Impact of Control-Display Gain on User Performance in Pointing Tasks
We theoretically and empirically examine the impact of control display (CD) gain on mouse pointing performance. Two techniques for modifying CD gain are considered: constant gain (CG) where CD gain is uniformly adjusted by a constant multiplier, and pointer acceleration (PA) where CD gain is adjusted using a nonuniform function depending on movement characteristics. Both CG and PA are evaluated at various levels of relationship between mouse and …
The Great Divider
Rogue Projects
Alexander Cockburn on Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line. Ethnographic memoir of life and times with the dealers, hookers and struggling residents of Chicago’s South Side Projects
A Predictive Model of Human Performance With Scrolling and Hierarchical Lists
Many interactive tasks in graphical user interfaces involve finding an item in a list but with the item not currently in sight. The two main ways of bringing the item into view are scrolling of one-dimensional lists and expansion of a level in a hierarchical list. Examples include selecting items in hierarchical menus and navigating through “tree” browsers to find files, folders, commands, or e-mail messages. System designers are often responsibl…
In Fukushima’s Wake
Dispatches
Reports from Paris and Moscow on the bicentenary of 1789 and dissolution of the USSR—mitterandistes hailing the Girondins as forerunners of themselves, while Yeltsin thanks George Bush for his support—and lethal advice for Western foreign correspondents
À l'époque de l'irrationalité. Les conspirationnistes du 11-Septembre et le déclin de la gauche américaine
Computer Science (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Amazon rainforest (4 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (3 obras) · Biology (3 obras) · Ecology (3 obras) · Geography (3 obras) · History (3 obras)