Jan Chipchase interview

Convivio has a very smart interview of Jan Chipchase (did by Fabio Sergio). Some excerpts I found interesting and pertinent regarding my work in human-centered design: One of my assumptions during interviews as well as more ad-hoc conversations is that everyone has something interesting to say you ...

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Détournement at its best

Russian website fishki offers very intriguing examples of "détournement" (i.e. tinkering/hacks/DIY bricolage) that I found irresistible. Some instances: Why do I blog this? some material to keep it handy up my sleeve, jut in case Michel de Certeau's concepts comes up in the conversation (creativi...

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User-centered design and vision-driven design

In a UXMAtters article called "Designing Breakthrough Products: Going Where No User Has Gone Before", George Olsen explains how user-centered design (UCD) is of interest to new-product projects but often failed when designing breakthrough products. Some excerpts about this topic I found relevant: W...

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CatchBob visualization using Proce55ing

I started playing with processing today, a easy-to use open source programming language and environment targeted a people who want to program images. This language seems to offer an simple platform that can be used to visualize my CatchBob logfiles. The logfiles store all the players' interaction w...

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Various vectors

Various link that may or may not make sense in the near future: halloweenmonsterlist is a comprehensive list of DIY hack/make for halloween. There are some very smart motion detector stuff and of course BBQ boneyards Bitchun society is a web platform that aims at applying Cory Doctorow's Whuffie n...

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Drop Spots

Thanks Vlad for pointing me on Drop Spots: A dropspot is a kind of alternative mailbox. It’s a hiding place in a public space, where people can leave things for exchange. Anything. It’s a weird and wonderful way to add personal character to the streets that we live in. Stash something fun and see w...

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Combining foresight and ethnographical insights

Embed: Mapping the Future of Work and Play: A Case for “Embedding” Non-Ethnographers in the Field is a paper by Andrew Greenman and Scott Smith which has been presented at EPIC 2006. The paper describes a very curious idea of combining an “ethnographic walking tour” with futures and foresight metho...

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SYS/*016.JEX*02/1SE6FX/360°

Discussing lately the issue of augmented playground with some folks, I remembered one of the bets piece from Lyon Art Biennale in 2001: "SYS/*016.JEX*02/1SE6FX/360°" is a project by Mathieu Briand. It is basically a participatory interactive 360° environment made of a big trampoline on which the pa...

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Next Nabaztag version: nabaztag/tag

This - sort-of - businessy presentation of Nabaztag is very interestint because the founder show the new version: Nabaztag/tag. Among its new capabilities, it can obey to voice orders ("it has a belly button and everyones knows that rabbit hear through their belly buttons"): like "weather in NY?" a...

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