Currently in Brussels where I gave a talk yesterday at iMal, a center for digital cultures and technology. The presentation entitled "Device art as a resource for interaction design and media art" was about the fading boundaries between interaction design, new media art and academic research. As a ...
The amazing magic robot
ALWAYS gives the RIGHT answer! Seen on a flea market in Brussels, this morning- ...
The E. about locating and tagging
In the last science and technology quarterly of the E, there are two interesting articles closely related with the hybridization of the digital and the physical: "Playing tag" and "Watching as you shop". While the former is about spatial annotation through mobile devices, the latter addresses locat...
Aquarium phone booth
Street encounter in Lyon: a phone booth turned into an aquarium (by Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino), as part of the Lyon Light Festival: As the designers express it: "With the advent of the mobile telephone, telephone booths lie unused. We rediscover this glass cage transformed into an aqu...
Warning signs using digital/physical hybridization
As it says: "If you pee here, please smile, you're videotaped... find the video on www.youtube.com" (seen in Lyon, France, last saturday) Why do I blog this? using the power of IT network to prevent people form doing certain things (haven't found any videos of this on youtube (yet)). Surely some i...
Ethnography as Design Provocation
Going through the EPIC 2007 proceedings, I ran across this interesting paper entitled "Ethnography as Design Provocation" by Jacob Buur and Larisa Sitorus. The paper starts off my explaining how the use of ethnography in technology development has been limited to data collection, which led to isola...
Workshop on Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display
Pervasive Expression: Workshop on Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display is a workshop Oorganized at the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Sunday 18 May 2008, Sydney, Australia). It's organized by Andrew Vande Moere, Kirsty Beilharz, Bert Bongers...
Design as a compromise
Found this paragraph in Bill Buxton's book "Sketching User Experiences": "People on a design team must be as happy to be wrong as right. If their ideas hold up under strong (but fair) criticism, then great, they can proceed with confidence. If their ideas are rejected with good rationale, then they...
Blitz game designers on the wii controller
An interesting talk I attended yesterday at the Lyon Game Developers' Conference was the on entitled "Creating Great Games for the Nintendo Wii and Its Unique Controller" by Philip and Andrew Oliver from Blitz Games: "Even though the ideas are fairly simple to prototype, getting the feel of each co...
Fake roadsigns in Lyon
The good thing when having a conference in France is that I had time to wander around and dig up some of the weird things that you can find on the streets. This time, it was the following road sign: This was part of a project called bopano organized by french design clique Kanardo (also see their ...