Posted in Adaptive, Fabricate, General, Materials, Personal, Physical on Jan 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
To those of you who voted in the poll about HCI tutorials, thank you. To those who didn’t bother (there’s still time) I mutter a future curse: May all your solar panels develop self-awareness and go on strike. Anyhow, previously I touched upon the idea of objects and tools that enable us to more easily [...]
Posted in General on Jan 28th, 2008 Write a comment »
Today’s post is about User Designer itself. One request and one update. [poll=2] If the above poll doesn’t appear in your reader please vote here. I’ve been debating whether to write a few short introductory tutorials on Interaction Design and Human Computer Interaction. The tutorials would be overviews about different key HCI areas, e.g. HCI [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jan 24th, 2008 Write a comment »
Tune your ears (listen) to Donald Norman, deep thinker about the implications of cognitive psychology for usability / HCI / design, getting interviewed by Peter Merholz. (found at putting people first) Flybot – read about Harvard University’s microrobotic fly. Visit Prof. Robert Wood’s Harvard Microrobotics Lab website. (thanks to Baz for the suggestion) 5 Alternative [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Differences, Personal, Physical on Jan 22nd, 2008 Write a comment »
Isn’t it strange the way faces look so different? Yet we easily recognise that a face is a face. Imagine waking up tomorrow and everyone’s face has disappeared. Each face is replaced with a blank unexpressive blob. Don’t worry about the eating, seeing, speaking and breathing bits – in this brave new faceless world we [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jan 17th, 2008 Write a comment »
Would you like one of these futuristic disappearing car doors? Here’s an online video of it in action. At Ellyssa Kroski’s InfoTangle read about the leading forms of information design and navigation structures for the web. Non-technical and clearly written – perfect. Here’s lookin at you, human. Golan Levin and co’s art piece Opto-isolator is [...]
Posted in Creativity Knowledge, Differences on Jan 15th, 2008 Write a comment »
Time for a quick hop skip and jump into cognitive science. Yep, I’ve already broken a New Year resolution by writing a longer post than I aimed for….though it is about some really interesting research that goes directly to the heart of User Designer: Are there benefits and dangers of changing artifacts and tools to [...]
Posted in General on Jan 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
2008 already – eek! Happy New Year one and all :) Over the break I tweaked User Designer’s setup so you can post comments. You don’t need to signup to post. Comment responses will appear in the Blog/RSS feed as part of the blog post. I’m not sure whether including comments in the Blog/RSS feed [...]
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
