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 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 Jan 24th, 2008 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Dec 11th, 2007 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Materials, Physical on Nov 21st, 2007 Write a comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Fabricate, Materials, Personal, Physical on May 11th, 2007 Write a comment »
Recently I came across JennyLC’s Intimate Controllers project (via the always interesting we-make-money-not-art). She writes that the project involved “building game controllers into undergarments so that games are played through players physically touching one another. The goal of this project was to research and create objects that challenge the traditional notions and orientation of video [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Virtual on Mar 5th, 2007 Write a comment »
Scoble’s two interviews with Ning co-founders (Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen) are interesting: Social Networking with Ning, version 2.0 and Build your own social space with Ning, version 2.
I haven’t played with Ning (yet) but based on the video and from reading around it sounds like the commoditization of software infrastructures for social software.
The implications [...]
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
