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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 art “animation” – [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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What would happen if your toothbrush could mate with another toothbrush?
Would you end up with an even better toothbrush – the best of both toothbrushes? How about if your toothbrush mates with 5, 10 or 15 different toothbrushes, with each new toothbrush in turn mating with another new toothbrush?
If you could decide which toothbrushes get [...]
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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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Isn’t it strange the way faces look so different? Yet we easily recognise that a face is a face. Imagine waking up tomorrow and everyone’s face has disappeared. Each face is replaced with a blank unexpressive blob. Don’t worry about the eating, seeing, speaking and breathing bits – in this brave new faceless world we [...]
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Look at Smash Magazine’s recent article on Modern Approaches To Data Visualization for a quick overview of key information visualizations.
Admire the 500+ visualizations at visualcomplexity.
Create your own online visualizations at Many Eyes.
Today I’m adding a new category called Creativity Knowledge to the User Designer blog. Creativity Knowledge will feature short posts highlighting specific examples [...]
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Ooooh the 2007 World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization (MCPC) should make your earwax melt from idea overload. I reckon I might try and get along.
On Donal Reddington’s excellent MadeForOne.com website Mass Customization is defined as “enabling a customer to decide the exact specification of a product or service, and have that product or [...]
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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 [...]
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Have a listen to the talk Neil Gershenfeld from The Center for Bits and Atoms gave about Personal Fabrication (video, audio) at TED in 2006. If streaming media ain’t your thing there’s an old interview with him on The Edge.
You could also wander around the Fab Labs Out Reach website, which details efforts to [...]
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