Posted in General on Oct 13th, 2008 Write a comment »
Excellent, HCI and Interaction Design research focused on a malleable and readily adaptable world is really beginning to gain traction. How long before it has its own conference?
There’s a bunch of very interesting workshops at CHI 2009, which will be on in Boston from April 4th to 9th. CFPs (Call for Participation) that caught my […]
Posted in General on Oct 1st, 2008 Write a comment »
Super busy at the moment but I’m delighted to announce “BumpList: An Email Community for the Determined” (my project in collaboration with Jonah Brucker-Cohen) is back online after being offline for 4 years! So now is your chance to join the email community that had most people scratching their heads and wondering what happened to […]
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 Jun 20th, 2008 Write a comment »
Neat video showing off a 360 degree 3D display created by researchers from the Graphics Lab at University of Southern California. More details can be found on their website and in their SIGGRAPH 2007 paper.
Read about Buckminster Fuller - architect, inventor, innovator, designer, futurist.
Evolution at work Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab.
User Designer […]
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 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, Link Bucket on Feb 29th, 2008 Write a comment »
Florian Kräutli has designed and created malleable magnetic curtains that retain their shape. Clunky elegance.
Embodied Cognition “is a growing research program in cognitive science that emphasizes the formative role the environment plays in the development of cognitive processes.” Learn more about this increasingly important area from this website. (via MindHacks)
Gimme gimme one of the Emotiv […]
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 Dec 20th, 2007 Write a comment »
Want a seat that’ll be there when you need it? Watch this neat design concept video of an interactive seat which follows you around! (via core77)
Have a look at Yahoo’s Design Innovation Team project website for some interesting visualisations and interactive concepts.
we make money not art writes about creating art with living materials. There’s something […]
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 Jul 11th, 2007 Write a comment »
Oh dear, battle of the brain! This is one of those makes you blink very interesting ideas: Do the neurons in a baby’s brain compete against each other in a Darwinian fashion?
On idealist you can read about lots of (possible) inventions or share your ideas and creativity. I’d like to get my hands on one […]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on May 23rd, 2007 Write a comment »
How well do you know your mind? Watch this great example of colour changing cards. Did you spot them? More fun from Prof Richard Wiseman via Quirkology.
Helvetica sounds like a fascinating documentary by Gary Hustwit about “typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its […]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Home, Materials, Physical on Mar 15th, 2007 Write a comment »
Run, don’t walk, and watch video 1 and video 2 about Chishen Chiu’s FlexibleLove experimental furniture.
The seat has drawn lots of attention in the blogsphere over the last few weeks. I wonder what draws people’s attention to it? Are they interested because the seat is different? Do they imagine how they’d use the seat in […]
Hi my name is Mike Bennett & I'm a HCI researcher, interaction designer + hacker. 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
