Understanding side effects

Understanding and Dealing With Usability Side Effects of Intelligent Processing

of AI in interactive systems can make them more powerful and easier or more natural to use. The historical overview in this issue by Grudin (2009) reports on some arguments to this effect over the past few decades. The section “Taming the Savage Beast of HCI” in the theme article by Lieberman (2009) offers a recent perspective. But an argument has been voiced about equally often (see the refere...

Toward achieving optimal response: understanding and managing antidepressant side effects

The safety and tolerability of antidepressants have improved considerably over the past two decades. Nevertheless, antidepressant side effects are still common and problematic. The majority of patients treated with contemporaty agents experience one or more bothersome side effects. These side effects often create barriers to achieving depressive remission, as well as to preventing relapse and r...

Side Effects

Side Effects

This section covers basic topics and illustrates the technical notion of a computational effect with several mathematical and programming examples. In everyday language, a “side effect” refers to the unintended or unforeseen consequences of an action. By analogy, in order to identify the side effect of a given computation, it is first necessary to isolate the “publicly stated” or “publicly expe...

Understanding the Dark Side of Domain Parking

Domain parking is a booming business with millions of dollars in revenues. However, it is also among the least regulated: parked domains have been routinely found to connect to illicit online activities even though the roles they play there have never been clarified. In this paper, we report the first systematic study on this “dark side” of domain parking based upon a novel infiltration analysi...