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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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 because of […]
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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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Time for a quick hop skip and jump into cognitive science. Yep, I’ve already broken a New Year resolution by writing a longer post than I aimed for….though it is about some really interesting research that goes directly to the heart of User Designer: Are there benefits and dangers of changing artifacts and tools to […]
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Dear Santa can I have a Dattoo (by frog design) and a Timeflex (from solovyovdesign). More at Top 10 technology wonders that don’t exist yet
A clever kinda crowdsourcing business idea: Low Cost Usability Testing
Scientists have discovered a second light-sensing system in the human eye that tells your body whether its day or night.
Got […]
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In today’s Creativity Knowledge post I’m focusing on a series of research projects from Patrick Baudisch, who is affiliated with the VIBE group in Microsoft Research and DUB in the University of Washington. Over the years Patrick and co-researchers have developed a range of innovative interaction techniques focused on enhancing people’s ability to move content […]
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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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Oh dear, battle of the brain! This is one of those makes you blink very interesting ideas: Do the neurons in a baby’s brain compete against each other in a Darwinian fashion?
On idealist you can read about lots of (possible) inventions or share your ideas and creativity. I’d like to get my hands on one […]
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As part of this blog I’m going to be regularly posting Link Buckets. These are posts which contain lots of links with very little commentary or discussion. In general they’ll be links to things I find interesting which are often distantly related to the core focus of the blog.
Heat Maps for your website. See what […]
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