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, Link Bucket, Materials on Aug 18th, 2010 Write a comment »
Very neat video of a research prototype, which shows off programmable foldable self-reshaping “paper”. How long before we see it in children’s toys? Or your cup is made of it? Or your trousers? Or your display? Add in a dash of flight and we move in the direction of flying autonomous robots that can self [...]
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 Design, General, Link Bucket, Physical on Aug 24th, 2009 Write a comment »
How aesthetically beautiful are your photos? Try out Acquine, an Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine. Welcome to the brave new world of computational aesthetics! Clever – video of evolving a human face using a genetic algorithm. A face detector is used for the fitness function. Time to start gaming for mental health? Haunting and beautiful sand [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Jun 9th, 2009 Write a comment »
Neat video showing off Paper Computing. Author electronic circuits by painting and dropping electronic components on paper! (found via Turbulence.org) Any ideas on how I can design and build a Charisma Augmentation Device…? Learn about the science of charisma. Handy handy – a useful new and free visualisation tool called Parallel Sets has just been [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Apr 21st, 2009 Write a comment »
Me likes MOY – design and adapt the visual design of your car…in real-time! Probably a bit distracting but I suspect it could be useful for making your car visually pop-out in dangerous low-vision driving conditions? MOY is a design concept from Elvis Tomljenovic “The idea behind MOY concept is that everyone can design their [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Apr 16th, 2009 Write a comment »
User Designer is back…yep, I went very quiet for a few months – but it was for great reasons 1) I became a dad (loving it), and 2) I was writing up my HCI PhD. Fortunately I’m getting to continue focusing on HCI / Interaction Design research, as I’ve just started as a postdoctoral researcher [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
