People into baseball cap like me could be interested into cap-mounted display such as the one designed by Lars Johansson and Niklas Andersson. One of their MSc student (Fredrik Nilbrink) designed a prototype: This project’s purpose was to investigate the truck operators needs and to see how modern...
Phoxelspace: tangible exploration of voxel data
Phoxelspace is a project by Dr. Carlo Ratti, Ben Piper, Yao Wang, and Professor Hiroshi Ishii from the Tangible Media Group at MIT. Phoxel-Space is an interface to enable the exploration of voxel data through the use of physical models and materials. Our goal is to improve the means to intuitively ...
The role of Stanford University as a "transformer"
From the Valley of Heart's Delight to Silicon Valley: A Study of Stanford University's Role in the Transformation by Tajnai, Carolyn (January 1997) is a technical report that illustrates "the role of Stanford University in the transformation from the Valley of Heart's Delight to the Silicon Valley"...
Rhetoretical politics in Pierre La Police
I am a huge fan of french comic writer Pierre la Police. Fabrice Leroy happened to write an essay about it: « C'est tout mal fait, pardon »: The Rhetoric of Politics in Pierre La Police's Comics ("it's all badly done, sorry"). In a recently published article, Livio Belloï and I examined Pierre La P...
Ambient displays in the Googleplex
After a quick search on Flickr, I ran across some of the ambient displays used at the Google Headquarters to show real-time queries (queries content + geographical location): Pictures courtesy of yoz. Why do I blog this? As a I said in the previous post, we're interested in information retrieval/v...
Embeding information retrieval into tangible interactions.
Tangible Interface for Collaborative Information Retrievalby Alan F. Blackwell, Mark Stringer, Eleanor F. Toye and Jennifer A. Rode Most information retrieval (IR) interfaces are designed for a single user working with a dedicated interface. We present a system in which the IR interface has been f...
Blogject Presentation at Reboot 8
At noon, Julian (aka "bleecks") and I gave our talk at Reboot 8. The title was "Networked objects and the new renaissance of things" in which we elaborated on the blogject concept (describing its main characteristics such as geospatial traces, history and agency) and of course highlighted what is s...
Reboot 8 Friday morning
Jesse James Garrett (from Adaptive Path) talked about user-generated information architecture ("Beyond Tagging"). The problem designers have today is that they can't always know the words people will use or the groups people will prefer. Card-sorting techniques is a primitive low-tech way to do the...
Boundary objects
According to Birger Hjørland's definition: Boundary object is a concept originally introduced by Susan L. Star and James R. Griesemer (1989) to refer to objects that serve an interface between different communities of practice. Boundary objects are an entity shared by several different communities ...
Marko Ahtisaari's talk at Reboot
End of the afternoon at Reboot, Mark Ahtisaari (Director of Design Strategy at Nokia) talked about "Mobile 2.0: Social Renaissance", basically describing the second stage of mobile communication. The mobile industry today has a huge scale: it reached 2bn mobile subscribers today. The next 2bn...