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 Adaptable, Adaptive, Design, Differences, Personal, Physical on Mar 12th, 2008 Write a comment »
Have you ever gotten into one of those silly arguments about the colour of something? You know where you’re sure that a t-shirt is red, while your friend is 100% sure its redish yellow. Frustrating isn’t it. Strange as it is, both of you can be utterly right. You both “see” a slightly different colour [...]
Posted in Link Bucket on Apr 11th, 2007 Write a comment »
See how to cut glass with a scissors! Neat – a really close up image showing the inside of the human eye. Internationally renowed virtuoso Joshua Bell goes busking in a Washington D.C. subway. To find out how passerbys reacted and how much he made you can read this Washington Post article. I heard him [...]
Posted in Link Bucket on Mar 16th, 2007 Write a comment »
Turn your old CDs into jewelry! An interesting Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides (Psychology) and John Tooby (Anthropology), University of California Santa Barbara. Want to take part in a short online research study into the connections between music and personality? If you’re interested and live in the UK or Ireland you can pop over [...]
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
