Florian Kräutli has designed and created malleable magnetic curtains that retain their shape. Clunky elegance.
Embodied Cognition “is a growing research program in cognitive science that emphasizes the formative role the environment plays in the development of cognitive processes.” Learn more about this increasingly important area from this website. (via MindHacks)
Gimme gimme one of the Emotiv [...]
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Break out the champagne. Today User Designer is 1 year old!
I’m happy with how the blog has developed over the first year. Though it took a while to settle into writing weekly. Two posts a week has become my regular rhythm. For the 2nd year my posting target will continue to be one post a [...]
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Don’t stress a driver by showing them too much visual information, but how do you know when a driver is getting stressed? Use EEGs to measure brain activity and have the visual displays automatically adapting. Yep, more Augmented Cognition with Brain-Computer Interfaces. Here’s the New Scientist article about the research.
Are you a hacker (maker) or [...]
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I had today’s post planned out and was about to sit down to write it when Ross (thanks!) suggested I try out a new computer game called Passage. Wow. Go download and play. Stop reading until you’ve tried it out.
Done already? Seriously I mean it – don’t read any more. Play it.
Beautiful, sad and moving [...]
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I’m curled up with a bug and head cold so today I’m posting a Link Bucket instead of the normal long Tuesday post. Enjoy.
Looks Tasty – see the world with your tongue.
For the last few years I’ve been keeping my eye on the emerging transdisciplinary field of Augmented Cognition. On the AugCog website it is [...]
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VirtuSphere lets you physically run and walk in any direction to move around virtual 3D worlds! Watch this video of it in action.
Eric Drexler’s forward thinking book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology is free online. The updated version Engines of Creation 2.0 is also available for free, but to download it you [...]
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What would happen if your toothbrush could mate with another toothbrush?
Would you end up with an even better toothbrush – the best of both toothbrushes? How about if your toothbrush mates with 5, 10 or 15 different toothbrushes, with each new toothbrush in turn mating with another new toothbrush?
If you could decide which toothbrushes get [...]
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Lovely overview about The History Of Visual Communication.
A bunch of interviews with User Experience pioneers.
Can you touch it? Workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for displays (thanks Aaron). Invent a new interaction technique for the likes of Microsoft’s Surface and the DiamondTouch.
Can you sing it? World’s First HCI Rap
Chill out and sketch a personal kaleidoscope. [...]
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