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document.write('Could *You* be more Usable?');
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document.write('Source: UN, 8 February 2010');
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document.write('Stowe Boyd on \'Steampunk\' thinking about the Future of Computing');
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document.write('Source: Stowe Boyd\'s blog via Experientia, 6 February 2010');
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document.write('Nokia\'s User Experience Programme');
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document.write('Source: UN, 5 February 2010');
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document.write('Interfaces magazine: latest issue available now');
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document.write('Source: HCI News Service, 4 February 2010');
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document.write('A Lighter Brigade of Chargers');
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document.write('Source: UN, 3 February 2010');
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document.write('Mobile Touch Screens could soon Feel the Pressure');
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document.write('Source: MIT Technology Review, 2 February 2010');
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document.write('Usability, Usability, Usability: why the iPad will Succeed');
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document.write('Source: Econsultancy, 1 February 2010');
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document.write('British Airways - at last some good news');
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document.write('Source: Loop11, 30 January 2010');
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document.write('Computation of Emotions in Man and Machine');
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document.write('Source: Royal Society, 29 January 2010');
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