I just found (finally a web version after 2 hours struggling to find on the web) an interesting map of the political geography of Switzerland. It depicts last week-end' votation. Swiss people had to vote for the integration of their country in the Schengen/Dublin zone. Here is a map done by Jacques...
The McGurk Effect: how visual information are so pregant
A glimpse of cognitive science. I finally found a video showing the Mc Gurk effect. The seminal paper about this topic is McGurk, H. & MacDonald, J. W. (1976). Hearing lips and seeing voices. Nature, 264, 746-748. According to Lawrence Rosenblum: The 'Mc Gurk' effect demonstrates of how we all use ...
Sports Video Game Controllers
(via) Xavix have an interesting video-game controller: a bowling ball: There is also the racket-based interaction with Xavix tennis: Why do I blog this? here there are examples of existing objects use as game controllers which can be interesting, because players are physicall engaged in the intera...
Alternative game controllers
Gamasutra has a good piece from 2004 about alternative game controllers. very once in a while a truly unique input device, either co-opted from another industry or a completely new invention, comes along that makes people sit up and take notice. Even with the computer industry in the doldrums, the ...
Shoe-surface interaction
Well I cannot resist to show this machine used to study shoe-surface interactions (found here): ...
SmartRunner: your GPS path while jogging
SmartRunner is a interesting tool: Up to now, it was only possible to be informed about speed and covered distance of a workout session at a fitness studio or using an exercise machine at home. But what about jogging in unobstructed nature? Any guidance is missing. What distance did I cover? How ma...
[fringe] interactive art to follow
[fringe]: is a Gothenburg collective of all those who can't stop making and creating works that involve or incorporate new media, emerging technologies, and/or electronic art and design. [fringe] gives local artists and designers a space for showing and sharing their work with the community here in...
Automatic user interruptability with wearable sensors
A Model for Human Interruptability: Experimental Evaluation and Automatic Estimation from Wearable Sensors by Nicky Kern, Stavros Antifakos, Bernt Schiele, Adrian Schwaninger In 8th International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC), Washington DC, USA, November 2004: For the estimation of user i...
Handheld and Clicker usability
Serco is a company that does usability testing, they have two interesting documents about controllers usability: Playing away: design lessons for handheld gaming It’s All In Hand: Design Lessons For Creating Usable Remote Controls The two documents are simple but insightful. Even though the metho...
Use duck density to gauge 'prowess and brilliance'
A new index for fans of city ratings (here, at fab's place or for chris): the density of ducks: York University has topped a table which gauges 'prowess and brilliance' by the amount of ducks on campus. Oxford and Cambridge do not even figure in the latest poll of duck density, reports The Guardian...