Posted in General, Link Bucket on May 23rd, 2007 Write a comment »
How well do you know your mind? Watch this great example of colour changing cards. Did you spot them? More fun from Prof Richard Wiseman via Quirkology. Helvetica sounds like a fascinating documentary by Gary Hustwit about “typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating [...]
Posted in Differences, Fabricate, Materials, Personal, Physical on May 15th, 2007 Write a comment »
Ooooh the 2007 World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization (MCPC) should make your earwax melt from idea overload. I reckon I might try and get along. On Donal Reddington’s excellent MadeForOne.com website Mass Customization is defined as “enabling a customer to decide the exact specification of a product or service, and have that product [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Fabricate, Materials, Personal, Physical on May 11th, 2007 Write a comment »
Recently I came across JennyLC’s Intimate Controllers project (via the always interesting we-make-money-not-art). She writes that the project involved “building game controllers into undergarments so that games are played through players physically touching one another. The goal of this project was to research and create objects that challenge the traditional notions and orientation of video [...]
Posted in General on May 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
During the week I was at the first Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference (IHCI) in the University of Limerick in Ireland. Thanks to Luigina Ciolfi and members of the Interaction Design Centre (IDC) for organising it and thanks to Liam Bannon for chairing the event. The purpose of the conference was to bring together researchers [...]
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
