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Japan Widens Evacuation Zone Around Fukushima 483

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday May 15, 2011 @09:53AM from the get-out-of-town dept.

mdsolar writes "Japan has started the first evacuations of homes outside a government exclusion zone after the earthquake and tsunami crippled one of the country's nuclear power plants. 5100 people are being relocated to public housing, hotels and other facilities in nearby cities."

Submission + - Why people watch instead of play Starcraft (jeffhuang.com)

Submitted by generalepsilon on Sunday May 15, 2011 @12:19AM

generalepsilon writes: Researchers from the University of Washington have found a key reason why Starcraft is a popular spectator sport, especially in Korea. In a paper published last week, they theorize that Starcraft incorporates 'information asymmetry', where the players and spectators each have different pieces of information, which transforms into entertainment. Sometimes spectators know something the players don't: they watch in suspense as players walk their armies into traps or a dropship sneaks behind the mineral line. Other times, players know something the spectators yearn to find out, such as 'cheese' (spectacular build orders that attempt to outplay an opponent early in the game). Rather than giving as much information as possible to spectators, it may be more crucial for game designers to decide which information to give to spectators, and when to reveal this information.

Submission + - Researchers Track Mouse Movements and Hesitations (jeffhuang.com) 2

Submitted by lpctstr on Sunday January 30, 2011 @07:14PM

lpctstr writes: Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research have found that cursor movements and cursor hovers can detect the relevance of a search result and whether a user may abandon the search. They use an efficient algorithm written in Javascript to silently record movements and clicks on Bing and find that computing relevance using movements + clicks works better than just clicks (the current state-of-the-art). They explain some of this due to cursor and gaze being closely aligned on the web, and especially so on search result pages. Is this the future of innovation in search ranking — Google and Bing tracking your every twitch and pause?

Comment Re:And the reward for most useless researcher goes (Score 2, Informative) 256

by lpctstr on Saturday November 08, 2008 @03:03AM (#25686063) Attached to: How To Cut In Line and Not Get Caught

The Stanley Milgram paper about cutting in line is better written. This tastyresearch article which summarizes Milgram even has some lessons for queue jumpers.

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