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 Adaptable, Design, Fabricate, General, Materials, Physical, Virtual on Nov 18th, 2009 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Physical, Virtual on Dec 3rd, 2007 Write a comment »
How can we help people easily create and explore the design space around physical / virtual objects? I’ve touched upon this before when I wrote about physical objects that are designed to be easy to re-shape by physical manipulation, e.g. Snap Cups and Shape A Seat, aka Don’t Forget Me, etc.
With that question in mind [...]
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 be [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Virtual on Mar 5th, 2007 Write a comment »
Scoble’s two interviews with Ning co-founders (Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen) are interesting: Social Networking with Ning, version 2.0 and Build your own social space with Ning, version 2.
I haven’t played with Ning (yet) but based on the video and from reading around it sounds like the commoditization of software infrastructures for social software.
The implications [...]
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
