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 because of [...]
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 [...]
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 Differences, Fabricate, Materials, Personal, Physical on May 15th, 2007 Write a comment »
Ooooh the 2007 World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization (MCPC) should make your earwax melt from idea overload. I reckon I might try and get along.
On Donal Reddington’s excellent MadeForOne.com website Mass Customization is defined as “enabling a customer to decide the exact specification of a product or service, and have that product or [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Fabricate, Materials, Personal, Physical on May 11th, 2007 Write a comment »
Recently I came across JennyLC’s Intimate Controllers project (via the always interesting we-make-money-not-art). She writes that the project involved “building game controllers into undergarments so that games are played through players physically touching one another. The goal of this project was to research and create objects that challenge the traditional notions and orientation of video [...]
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, Home, Personal on Feb 27th, 2007 Write a comment »
Make your own cups…
What a lovely idea – a simple and elegant way of shaping the functional design of such a common tool. The handle, cup and stems are separate components which you connect as you choose.
How far can the idea of producing small lego-like parts be pushed? What are the limitations and problems posed [...]
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
