Posted in Adaptable, Adaptive, Design, Differences, Personal, Physical on Mar 12th, 2008 Write a comment »
Have you ever gotten into one of those silly arguments about the colour of something? You know where you’re sure that a t-shirt is red, while your friend is 100% sure its redish yellow. Frustrating isn’t it. Strange as it is, both of you can be utterly right. You both “see” a slightly different colour [...]
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 Adaptable, Adaptive, Differences, Virtual on Aug 2nd, 2007 Write a comment »
Clever clever. kameraflage is a way of augmenting your visual environment with extra information. The extra information can be seen by digital cameras but won’t be seen by the human eye! No special software is required for your digital camera. In the above photo you can see an example where a streak of lightening can [...]
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 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?” [...]
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 [...]
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
