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 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 Apr 18th, 2008 Write a comment »
Sensisphere is a multitouch hemispherical display that lets you drag, move, push and pull digitial things with your hands. Pop over to YouTube and see it in action.
Scientists have created an entire synthetic genome. Another important step towards making biological nanobot “machines”, which would be extremely useful as smart malleable materials.
Very very blog relevant and [...]
Posted in Creativity Knowledge, General on Mar 6th, 2008 Write a comment »
Time for another Creativity Knowledge. Today I’m pointing you towards Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), aka. Calm Technology.
How could you make shopping for food easier?
Imagine making a shopping list on your computer. As you head out the door to the supermarket the shopping list automatically stores itself on your mobile phone. Of course you’re always forgetting [...]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2008 Write a comment »
Break out the champagne. Today User Designer is 1 year old!
I’m happy with how the blog has developed over the first year. Though it took a while to settle into writing weekly. Two posts a week has become my regular rhythm. For the 2nd year my posting target will continue to be one post a [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jan 17th, 2008 Write a comment »
Would you like one of these futuristic disappearing car doors? Here’s an online video of it in action.
At Ellyssa Kroski’s InfoTangle read about the leading forms of information design and navigation structures for the web. Non-technical and clearly written – perfect.
Here’s lookin at you, human. Golan Levin and co’s art piece Opto-isolator is going to [...]
Posted in Creativity Knowledge, Differences on Jan 15th, 2008 Write a comment »
Time for a quick hop skip and jump into cognitive science. Yep, I’ve already broken a New Year resolution by writing a longer post than I aimed for….though it is about some really interesting research that goes directly to the heart of User Designer: Are there benefits and dangers of changing artifacts and tools to [...]
Posted in Creativity Knowledge, General on Dec 13th, 2007 Write a comment »
In today’s Creativity Knowledge post I’m focusing on a series of research projects from Patrick Baudisch, who is affiliated with the VIBE group in Microsoft Research and DUB in the University of Washington. Over the years Patrick and co-researchers have developed a range of innovative interaction techniques focused on enhancing people’s ability to move content [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Nov 15th, 2007 Write a comment »
Do you know when your right is wrong? How distorted is your experience of reality? Read about the 26 different kinds of Cognitive Bias. I wonder how the biases influence user experience?
For when you’re in a dancing mood and craving some eye candy: lots and lots of music videos “that overlap the music video format [...]
Posted in General on May 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
During the week I was at the first Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference (IHCI) in the University of Limerick in Ireland. Thanks to Luigina Ciolfi and members of the Interaction Design Centre (IDC) for organising it and thanks to Liam Bannon for chairing the event.
The purpose of the conference was to bring together researchers and [...]
Posted in Link Bucket on Mar 16th, 2007 Write a comment »
Turn your old CDs into jewelry!
An interesting Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides (Psychology) and John Tooby (Anthropology), University of California Santa Barbara.
Want to take part in a short online research study into the connections between music and personality? If you’re interested and live in the UK or Ireland you can pop over here for [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Adaptive, Differences on Mar 13th, 2007 Write a comment »
Every now and then I come across a paper that really sticks in my head. These papers strike a deep chord and often put into words whispy-not-fully-recognised thoughts.
A few years ago I came across “User analysis in HCI: the historical lesson from individual differences research” by Andrew Dillon and Charles Watson, which was published in [...]
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
