Posted in General, Ideas, Physical, Virtual on Apr 5th, 2011 Write a comment »
Today’s idea falls out of a few questions I’ve often wondered about: What is the role of subtle feedback in interaction design and human-computer interaction? How can we recognize design gaps, where subtle feedback would be useful or undesirable? BTW this post was originally much too long and contained a few different interrelated ideas. Rather [...]
Posted in General, Ideas, Physical, Virtual on Mar 21st, 2011 Write a comment »
Recently I’ve been debating posting 365 HCI / interaction ideas and inventions on User Designer, one idea a day for the next year. Like lots of other people, I generate and have far far more ideas than I’ll ever use, build or test. Posting an idea everyday for a year would be too time consuming, [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket, Physical, Virtual on Nov 8th, 2010 Write a comment »
8pen is a novel alternative to the keyboard. I wonder is it any good and useful? How does it compare to Dasher? Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) are on the rise – a recent Nature paper covers an experiment where measures of thinking are used to separate out images. The BCI research community is gaining traction – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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. [...]
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
