Posted in Link Bucket on Mar 29th, 2007 Write a comment »
Some cute looking robots that evolve their own language. What makes a robot cute?
More design links than you can shake a stick at: Designfeast
Are you a 1 percenter? Check out Co-creators – its an interesting blog, which mixes in a dose of business sense when talking about aspects of a co-created malleable world.
Posted in Adaptive, Personal on Mar 27th, 2007 Write a comment »
Here’s a great TED talk by Dan Gilbert where he talks about Synthetic versus Natural Happiness. “Natural Happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted. Synthetic Happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted.”
During the talk he discusses the implications of some experiments which demonstrate that giving [...]
Posted in Link Bucket on Mar 22nd, 2007 Write a comment »
Are you convinced? How do you believe? Have a gander at Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and Web Credibility Project.
Many many ebooks for free!
Share this meme….Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology “offers a new theory about how ideologies and beliefs grow, spread, and develop– a theory of cultural evolution, which explains both shared understandings and disagreement [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Adaptive, Physical on Mar 21st, 2007 Write a comment »
Personalised medicine is focused on delivering “the right drug, for the right person, at the right time”. Potential patients undergo tests that measure individual differences in their physiology and genetics. These tests can then be used to help decide which drugs should be administered in what dosages.
In the Wired article “Where’s My Personalized Medicine?” you [...]
Posted in Link Bucket on Mar 16th, 2007 Write a comment »
Turn your old CDs into jewelry!
An interesting Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides (Psychology) and John Tooby (Anthropology), University of California Santa Barbara.
Want to take part in a short online research study into the connections between music and personality? If you’re interested and live in the UK or Ireland you can pop over here for [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Home, Materials, Physical on Mar 15th, 2007 Write a comment »
Run, don’t walk, and watch video 1 and video 2 about Chishen Chiu’s FlexibleLove experimental furniture.
The seat has drawn lots of attention in the blogsphere over the last few weeks. I wonder what draws people’s attention to it? Are they interested because the seat is different? Do they imagine how they’d use the seat in [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Adaptive, Differences on Mar 13th, 2007 Write a comment »
Every now and then I come across a paper that really sticks in my head. These papers strike a deep chord and often put into words whispy-not-fully-recognised thoughts.
A few years ago I came across “User analysis in HCI: the historical lesson from individual differences research” by Andrew Dillon and Charles Watson, which was published in [...]
Posted in Design, Fabricate, Link Bucket, Physical on Mar 8th, 2007 Write a comment »
Bill Cockayne’s talk (mp3) at Design 2.0 on enabling engineer designers to be big picture / future thinkers. Found via pasta and vinegar.
A very funny spoof paper discussing “The Etiology & Treatment of Childhood“. Found via Mind Hacks.
ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design is a small follow up related to yesterdays post about Personal Fabrication. Its a [...]
Posted in Fabricate, Physical on Mar 7th, 2007 Write a comment »
Have a listen to the talk Neil Gershenfeld from The Center for Bits and Atoms gave about Personal Fabrication (video, audio) at TED in 2006. If streaming media ain’t your thing there’s an old interview with him on The Edge.
You could also wander around the Fab Labs Out Reach website, which details efforts to [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Virtual on Mar 5th, 2007 Write a comment »
Scoble’s two interviews with Ning co-founders (Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen) are interesting: Social Networking with Ning, version 2.0 and Build your own social space with Ning, version 2.
I haven’t played with Ning (yet) but based on the video and from reading around it sounds like the commoditization of software infrastructures for social software.
The implications [...]
Posted in Link Bucket on Mar 2nd, 2007 Write a comment »
As part of this blog I’m going to be regularly posting Link Buckets. These are posts which contain lots of links with very little commentary or discussion. In general they’ll be links to things I find interesting which are often distantly related to the core focus of the blog.
Heat Maps for your website. See what [...]
Hi my name is Mike Bennett & I'm a HCI / Vision Science postdoc researcher, interaction designer + hacker in the Psychology Dept of Stanford University. In this blog I explore design, cognitive & vision science, art, psychology, physiology, nanotech, perception, materials, etc, that enable anyone to shape their own user experiences... more
