WhoWhatWhenAIR is a blog that follows the development and fabrication of a 40ft interactive/kinetic tower (by Philippe Block, Axel Kilian, Peter Schmitt, John Snavely). The project was submitted for the mini-Skyscraper competition in the Department of Architecture at MIT. As winning entry we receiv...
Replayer: replay and visualize heterogeneous data
Morrison, A.,Tennent, P. and Chalmers, M. (2006). Coordinated Visualisation of Video and System Log Data, in proceedings of 4th International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV2006), London, UK. This article describes Replayer, an interesting platform that ...
QR code definition of Ubiquitous Computing
This is a quick definition of Ubiquitous Computing (taken here), maybe not the most accurate but short as I needed (especially given that I cut the definition!). Generated with Kaywa QR code generator that I am testing with the Kaywa reader. The QR code generator allows to create a QR code linked ...
Museolab: museolab technology testing
Lyon's future museum called "Musée des Confluences" (architecture by Coop Himmelblau) has a research structure called Museolab that aims at inventing, experimenting and validating technologies and services that would improve museum visitors' experience (better interacting and understanding an exhi...
Excerpts of Toshio Iwai's interview
Pixelsurgeon features a nice interview of Toshio Iwai. A japanese media artist, building electronic/physical instruments (and designing games such as Elektroplankton), Iwai gives some hints about his activity: the importance of tangibility, the need for visual feedthrough, a need to design for play...
Location-Based Home Technologies
Elliot, K., Neustaedter, C. and Greenberg, S. (2006)Sticky Spots and Flower Pots: Two Case Studies in Location-Based Home Technology Design. Report 2006-830-23, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4. April. The paper is about two case studies in ho...
Hand/finger tracking system
A curious hand/finger tracking system is described in Smart Laser Scanner for Human-Computer Interface by Alvaro Cassinelli, Stephane Perrin & Masatoshi Ishikawa The next logical step would be to remove the need for any (dedicated or merged) input space, as well as the need for any additional input...
Animal Controlled Computer Games
I stumbled an interesting project called "Animal Controlled Computer Games" on pixelsix: Animal Controlled Computer Games is the graduation project from Wim van Eck (...) In his project he build a Pacman game, in that the player can play Pacman against real crickets, that controls the ghosts in the...
Norman on Study first, design second or vice versa
Also in the last ACM interaction issue, Donald Norman is conscientiously shifting from his past stance ("study first, design second") to a pragmatic take: "for many projects the order is design, then study". And this, for different reasons: Once a project is announced, it is too late to study what ...
Mobile navigation support for pedestrians
The last issue of ACM Interactions is specially devoted to "gadgets". Though I won't argue about this topic name, there is an interesting paper about mobile navigation supported entitled "Mobile navigation support for pedestrians: can it work and does it pay off?" by Manfred Tscheligi, Reinhard Sef...