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 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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Feb 1st, 2008 Write a comment »
Lovely overview about The History Of Visual Communication. A bunch of interviews with User Experience pioneers. Can you touch it? Workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for displays (thanks Aaron). Invent a new interaction technique for the likes of Microsoft’s Surface and the DiamondTouch. Can you sing it? World’s First HCI Rap Chill out and [...]
Posted in Design, Fabricate, Link Bucket, Physical on Mar 8th, 2007 Write a comment »
Bill Cockayne’s talk (mp3) at Design 2.0 on enabling engineer designers to be big picture / future thinkers. Found via pasta and vinegar. A very funny spoof paper discussing “The Etiology & Treatment of Childhood“. Found via Mind Hacks. ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design is a small follow up related to yesterdays post about Personal Fabrication. [...]
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
