I’m always a big fan of TED talks…and here’s a fascinating short 8 minute talk, by Pattie Mae’s from MIT Media Lab. She talks about and shows off SixthSense, which is an invention for turning any surface into an interactive gesture controlled video surface. Neat and easy enough to integrate into current mobile devices.
Bosch have [...]
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How aesthetically beautiful are your photos? Try out Acquine, an Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine. Welcome to the brave new world of computational aesthetics!
Clever – video of evolving a human face using a genetic algorithm. A face detector is used for the fitness function.
Time to start gaming for mental health?
Haunting and beautiful sand art “animation” – [...]
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Neat video showing off Paper Computing. Author electronic circuits by painting and dropping electronic components on paper! (found via Turbulence.org)
Any ideas on how I can design and build a Charisma Augmentation Device…? Learn about the science of charisma.
Handy handy – a useful new and free visualisation tool called Parallel Sets has just been released.
An arty [...]
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Me likes MOY – design and adapt the visual design of your car…in real-time! Probably a bit distracting but I suspect it could be useful for making your car visually pop-out in dangerous low-vision driving conditions? MOY is a design concept from Elvis Tomljenovic “The idea behind MOY concept is that everyone can design their [...]
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User Designer is back…yep, I went very quiet for a few months – but it was for great reasons 1) I became a dad (loving it), and 2) I was writing up my HCI PhD. Fortunately I’m getting to continue focusing on HCI / Interaction Design research, as I’ve just started as a postdoctoral researcher [...]
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Excellent, HCI and Interaction Design research focused on a malleable and readily adaptable world is really beginning to gain traction. How long before it has its own conference?
There’s a bunch of very interesting workshops at CHI 2009, which will be on in Boston from April 4th to 9th. CFPs (Call for Participation) that caught my [...]
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Super busy at the moment but I’m delighted to announce “BumpList: An Email Community for the Determined” (my project in collaboration with Jonah Brucker-Cohen) is back online after being offline for 4 years! So now is your chance to join the email community that had most people scratching their heads and wondering what happened to [...]
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All the world is aflame with the iPhone! Have a look at this example of the iPhone used as an Augmented Reality device. (thanks Karl)
See how the world looks to a baby’s eyes.
What is our psychology of time? Read The future is nonlinear on Mind Hacks to learn more.
Drool drool love the visual style in [...]
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Think Nintendo’s Wii is deliciously haptic? Then click over to Exertion Interfaces: Sports over a distance for social bonding and fun. Checkout their Table Tennis for Three website and video, where three friends in different parts of the world play table tennis together. I wonder have they built their Remote Impact – Shadowboxing over a [...]
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Zoomii is an interesting and well executed Zoomable User Interface (ZUI) for browsing books on Amazon. With Zoomii you see virtual bookshelves that you can zoom in and out of, a little bit like the experience of exploring a physical bookstore. I reckon they should tweak Zoomii so when you zoom towards a book cover [...]
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Neat video showing off a 360 degree 3D display created by researchers from the Graphics Lab at University of Southern California. More details can be found on their website and in their SIGGRAPH 2007 paper.
Read about Buckminster Fuller – architect, inventor, innovator, designer, futurist.
Evolution at work Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab.
User Designer [...]
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Fashionable Technology is a just released book on The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, and fashion, design and science is a highly promising and topical subject. Offered here is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing. (found via [...]
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A true HCI classic from 1945 (pre-pre-HCI). Vannevar Bush’s reflections on how technology can augment the human intellect: As We May Think
Neat – Kickable self-reassembling robots. (thanks Graham)
Get some insight into how Google approaches usability and HCI in the talk The Art and Science of User Experience at Google.
An amusing ad. Have you ever felt [...]
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Very neat – A Periodic Table of Visualisation Methods from Visual-Literacy.org. Hover your mouse over any of the entries and up pops the related visualisation.
Excellent, the 2nd Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference is going to be on on the 19th and 20th of September in University College Cork, Ireland. Submission date is June 13th, 2008. [...]
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Sensisphere is a multitouch hemispherical display that lets you drag, move, push and pull digitial things with your hands. Pop over to YouTube and see it in action.
Scientists have created an entire synthetic genome. Another important step towards making biological nanobot “machines”, which would be extremely useful as smart malleable materials.
Very very blog relevant and [...]
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