Posted in Design, Link Bucket, Materials on Aug 18th, 2010 Write a comment »
Very neat video of a research prototype, which shows off programmable foldable self-reshaping “paper”. How long before we see it in children’s toys? Or your cup is made of it? Or your trousers? Or your display?
Add in a dash of flight and we move in the direction of flying autonomous robots that can self assemble [...]
Posted in Design, Fabricate, General, Link Bucket, Physical, Virtual on Jun 8th, 2010 Write a comment »
Image Swirl is an interesting variant of a graph layout information visualisation from Google Labs. So far I like using it to explore clusters of related images, though I wonder whether the clustering reduces the range of images I see. Do I get exposed to more images that are strongly related to each other and [...]
Posted in Design, Fabricate, General, Link Bucket, Physical on May 21st, 2010 Write a comment »
Welcome to the nearly-ready nearly-there future! PaperComp 2010 sounds like a very interesting workshop planned for Ubicomp 2010. Their Call For Papers says “This workshop aims at bringing together researchers exploring the future of printed interfaces and associated practices. It will act as a kick-off event for launching a new research community, articulating how different [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Apr 21st, 2010 Write a comment »
Hi from the United States – in the last month I’ve moved from Ireland and started a postdoc in the Psychology Dept in Stanford University. Woot!
Imagine if every building surface was a display…see this very neat video of a 3D projection onto buildings. I like the way their 3D projection takes advantage of the architecture [...]
Posted in Design, General, Link Bucket, Physical on Aug 24th, 2009 Write a comment »
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” – [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jun 9th, 2009 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Apr 21st, 2009 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Apr 16th, 2009 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Aug 14th, 2008 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jul 18th, 2008 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jul 8th, 2008 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jun 20th, 2008 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on May 13th, 2008 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on May 2nd, 2008 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Apr 25th, 2008 Write a comment »
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. [...]
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
