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Chris Harrison

Personal blog · chrisharrison.netdesignsciencehardware

Chris Harrison's personal blog at chrisharrison.net covers design, science and hardware. Since 2007, 50 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “Skinput - use the human body for finger input using a novel wearable sensor”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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55mentions?
50HN people?
2007–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2011

Most-linked posts?

  1. /projects/progressbars/ProgBarHarrison.pdf
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-01-12
  2. Skinput - use the human body for finger input using a novel wearable sensor
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-03-03
  3. WikiViz: Visualising Wikipedia
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-05
  4. Faster Progress Bars: Manipulating Perceived Duration [pdf]
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-17
  5. Rethinking the Progress Bar (2007) [pdf]
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-02
  6. A backwards moving and decelerating ribbed progress bar appears 11% faster
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-02
  7. Using an LCD’s poor viewing angle to your advantage
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-24
  8. Faster Progress Bars: Manipulating Perceived Duration with Augmentations (2010)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-17
  9. /index.php/Research/PneumaticDisplays
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-12
  10. Data Visualization Projects
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. tlrobinson · 2011-08-19
    http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/progressbars/ProgBarHa...

    Comment linking /projects/progressbars/ProgBarHarrison.pdf

    on “Spin.js, a pure JS spinner”
  2. dholowiski · 2011-10-24

    Submitted Using an LCD’s poor viewing angle to your advantage as a story · 308 points

    HN discussion
  3. ch · 2010-12-14
    Neat. It is interesting how similar this rendering is to Chris Harrison's city-to-city map: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/medium/wor...

    Comment linking /projects/InternetMap/medium/worldBlack.jpg

    on “Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map”
  4. archgrove · 2013-10-09

    Submitted Lumitrack: Low Cost, Precise, High Speed Tracking with Projected m-Sequences as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  5. baddox · 2015-01-05
    Animating progress bars to decrease perceived wait times. http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/progressbars2/Progress...

    Comment linking /projects/progressbars2/ProgressBarsHarrison.pdf

    on “Kyoto taxi drivers reduce robberies by 50 percent by doing nothing”
  6. robin_reala · 2017-12-18

    Submitted Faster Progress Bars: Manipulating Perceived Duration with Augmentations (2010) as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  7. cccccc · 2011-10-25
    The works on even mac laptops go to the demo page here: http://chrisharrison.net/projects/obliqueLCD/ look at your laptop screen from above and below (i.e., tilt or rock it) - not side to side. More details here: http://chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/ObliqueLCD

    Comment linking /index.php/Research/ObliqueLCD

    on “Using an LCD’s poor viewing angle to your advantage”
  8. subsubsub · 2021-03-02

    Submitted Rethinking the Progress Bar (2007) [pdf] as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  9. buq2 · 2012-06-06
    Here is very similar technology: http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/PneumaticDis... Nokia has also done research into this but with little bit different technology: http://c2499022.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/wp-content...

    Comment linking /index.php/Research/PneumaticDisplays

    on “Buttons that morph out of the surface of the device.”
  10. anand_nalya · 2011-10-20

    Submitted Visualizing Wikipedia as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  11. pixelmonkey · 2024-05-22
    This is a cool idea. I also really like simonw’s TIL feed: https://til.simonwillison.net/ Like a microblog of little learnings in day-to-day development. One interesting thing that occurred to me recently is that my personal site ( https://amontalenti.com ) is more an essay archive and identity verification tool, than it is a “blog” or “microblog.” That is, the timestamps of the content on there are the least intere…

    Comment linking /index.php/Home/Log

    on “How and why to make a /now page on your site”
  12. danabramov · 2013-09-17

    Submitted Faster Progress Bars: Manipulating Perceived Duration [pdf] as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  13. btn · 2012-12-04
    The authors of Touché did a follow-up paper at UIST this year to study this exact question [1]. In brief, you can train a classifier on the impedance profile of specific users, but there are some significant limitations (impedance profiles naturally drift over time, and accuracy doesn't look so good with a lot of users). [1] http://chrisharrison.net/projects/capacitivefingerprinting/C...

    Comment linking /projects/capacitivefingerprinting/CapFingerprinting.pdf

    on “Touché”
  14. pera · 2019-09-28

    Submitted Faster Progress Bars: Manipulating Perceived Duration with Augmentations (2010) [pdf] as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  15. capybara · 2017-05-23
    This reminds me of the very cool research of Chris Harrison, a professor at Carnegie Mellon. Lots of interesting work thinking about different ways to interact with computers. http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/Welcome

    Comment linking /index.php/Research/Welcome

    on “Xperia Touch makes any surface interactive”
  16. swombat · 2009-04-29

    Submitted Providing Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  17. raphman · 2017-05-10
    "Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Liquids, and Everyday Objects" [1] and "Botanicus Interacticus: Interactive Plant Technology" [2] used a single electrode and machine-learning classification in order to distinguish between different types of touches and touch locations. Using multiple measurements (as Electrick does) provides much more robust tracking than these. [1] http://www.chrisharrison.net/index…

    Comment linking /index.php/Research/Touche

    on “Electrick: Low-Cost Touch Sensing Using Electric Field Tomography”
  18. oxplot · 2015-11-12

    Submitted Tomo: Low Cost Impedance Tomography, Alternative to MRI, CT as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  19. shalmanese · 2010-12-26
    Rethinking the Progress Bar: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/progressbars/index.htm... A paper that investigates how non-linear progress rates also affect perceived completion time.

    Comment linking /projects/progressbars/index.html

    on “The progress bar illusion”
  20. nreece · 2008-01-24

    Submitted Really cool software projects as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  21. Surio · 2012-10-20
    Like a few others, I too found it an average CV (It is something very similar to what I myself have, and I consider myself an average (-; ). To be honest, there are a few others in the comments that I gravitated towards more (It's a matter of personal preference of course). Sure, the Progress bar looks new, but others too have it on them -- see v33ra's response below. You took a chance and placed it on HN for the se…

    Comment linking /

    on “Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github”
  22. arsh · 2012-02-12

    Submitted TapSense as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  23. nirmal · 2009-01-12
    http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/progressbars/ProgBarHa... This is a great paper on how Progress Bars affect our model of the computation. It looks at how our natural model of time is non-linear and how this can be used to make us feel that that system is faster.

    Comment linking /projects/progressbars/ProgBarHarrison.pdf

    on “If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices”
  24. bensummers · 2010-03-03

    Submitted Skinput - use the human body for finger input using a novel wearable sensor as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  25. Scaevolus · 2013-02-23
    Different interpolation functions on progress bars can make users perceive tasks as finishing faster. http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/ProgressBars

    Comment linking /index.php/Research/ProgressBars

    on “Interpolation Tricks”
  26. edw519 · 2011-10-18

    Submitted OmniTouch: Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  27. raphman · 2012-01-04
    More or less same technique, presented at UIST in October 2011: http://chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/TapSense

    Comment linking /index.php/Research/TapSense

    on “Microphone turns any surface into a multitouch interface”
  28. Anon84 · 2008-08-06

    Submitted Data Visualization Projects as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  29. thesash · 2011-11-12
    While I agree that the current generation of touch screens are rather superficial, I sincerely doubt that the future of interaction looks anything like a stylus. For artists and designers, the stylus will be used for many years to come, but for casual, everyday use, it simply isn't user friendly. While it may be natural to draw or write on a screen with a stylus, jabbing at buttons on a screen with a stylus is no mo…

    Comment linking /index.php/Research/PneumaticDisplays

    on “In Defense Of The Stylus”
  30. johndcook · 2019-01-07

    Submitted Word Spectrum: Visualizing Google's Bi-Gram Data as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion

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