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 [...]
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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 [...]
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To those of you who voted in the poll about HCI tutorials, thank you. To those who didn’t bother (there’s still time) I mutter a future curse: May all your solar panels develop self-awareness and go on strike.
Anyhow, previously I touched upon the idea of objects and tools that enable us to more [...]
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Tune your ears (listen) to Donald Norman, deep thinker about the implications of cognitive psychology for usability / HCI / design, getting interviewed by Peter Merholz. (found at putting people first)
Flybot – read about Harvard University’s microrobotic fly. Visit Prof. Robert Wood’s Harvard Microrobotics Lab website. (thanks to Baz for the suggestion)
5 Alternative Ways to [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Can you tell how much cuter one design, product or toy is than another design, product or toy? How do you know its cuter? Is it how it works? How it feels? How it moves? How it looks? Interesting workshop on Designing Cute Interactive Media at the upcoming Design of Interactive Systems 2008.
Test how your [...]
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Any ideas how you would use Living Glass? Reminds me of the Tanaka Auto Door.
Pod-a-licious: Talking Robots: The Podcast on Robotics and A.I. has lots of very interesting audio interviews with researchers who are deeply into flying insect robots, robot brains & emotions, bionic design, robot & human teams, etc, etc.
Some good introductory tutorials on [...]
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Last week the New York Times had a very interesting article Led by Robots, Roaches Abandon Instincts. The article discussed José Halloy and co’s research where by “using robotic roaches (they) were able to persuade real cockroaches to do things that their instincts told them were not the best idea”, aka social bug peer pressure [...]
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Some cute looking robots that evolve their own language. What makes a robot cute?
More design links than you can shake a stick at: Designfeast
Are you a 1 percenter? Check out Co-creators – its an interesting blog, which mixes in a dose of business sense when talking about aspects of a co-created malleable world.
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