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 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. [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Mar 20th, 2008 Write a comment »
More sketching Phun. Another very pretty sketching “game” like those I mentioned in Sketch & Draw = Create & Design Interactive “Things” and Link Bucket: Crayon Physics, Optical Illusions, Design Is & Rocky Origins. (thanks Ross)
Design lovely – 16 of the Most Extreme & Modern Beds You’ll Ever See. Especially relevant to User Designer is [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Mar 14th, 2008 Write a comment »
Visit WhiteVoid for a unique website navigation structure. Kind of a fusion between 3D and Zoomable User Interfaces.
We can simulate you. Out Of The Blue is an engaging article about whether a supercomputer can be used to simulate a biologically accurate brain. Sounds like they’re getting real results.
Nanoscale pretty.
We can model you and you and [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Feb 22nd, 2008 Write a comment »
Don’t stress a driver by showing them too much visual information, but how do you know when a driver is getting stressed? Use EEGs to measure brain activity and have the visual displays automatically adapting. Yep, more Augmented Cognition with Brain-Computer Interfaces. Here’s the New Scientist article about the research.
Are you a hacker (maker) or [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Dec 5th, 2007 Write a comment »
Crayon Physics is a sketch based game thats like the projects mentioned in Sketch & Draw = Create & Design Interactive �Things�. You really should try it out. Initially I thought it’d be the same as playing The Incredible Machine but it feels much looser and free form. Its knock your socks off pretty and [...]
Posted in Link Bucket on Mar 2nd, 2007 Write a comment »
As part of this blog I’m going to be regularly posting Link Buckets. These are posts which contain lots of links with very little commentary or discussion. In general they’ll be links to things I find interesting which are often distantly related to the core focus of the blog.
Heat Maps for your website. See what [...]
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
