Video Games article in the IHT. It's about the origins of the joysticks. I picked up the relevant part: Robert Esnault-Pelterie. Yet millions of gaming enthusiasts, and crane operators and cellphone owners and even the captain of the world's largest, longest, tallest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2, ...
Usability and playability in Augmented reality
The field of Augmented Reality is now turning itself to the current trend of user-centric approach (which is good). There is more and more attention an thus papers that concerns LBS/Pervasive Gaming/AR usability. The following paper is a relevant example: Usability and Playability Issues for ARQuak...
One-button interactions and game design
Gamasutra has a relevant article about "one button" video games (Berbank Green ). The point is to explore human computer interaction with a concrete limitation: having one button. I picked up few parts but you should read it anyway! In this article, one button is the limitation on interaction. Usin...
Paper, playstic and playsation: adaptation of game across technologies
Via tom hume, this interesting powerpoint document: PAPER, PLASTIC OR PLAYSTATION? Adapting a game across a wide range of technologies by Scott Kim. It's actually a talk at the People, Computers, and Design seminar at Stanford University, Oct 8, 2004 Scott says: "As a puzzle designer I work in a wi...
Is it a thoughtless act?
Seen in Geneva during the week-end: ...
New cell phones features
A short piece in the IHT about how european and american carriers can benefit from asian's mistakes when designing cell phone features: American and European carriers have the luxury of learning from mistakes the Japanese have made, particularly when it comes to designing attractive and reasonably ...
Rojo: a newsfeed aggregator that allows tagging
This rojo web applications seems worth to have a glance. It's a kinf of newsfeed aggregator/del.icio.us mashup: Rojo is a FREE web-based service that lets you efficiently read RSS feeds from publishers big and small, ranging from millions of blogs to the New York Times. There is NO SOFTWARE to down...
Participate to a research about new types of digital photography!
Here is a interesting project starting in June 2005 about new types of digital photography. It's conducted at the Future Application Lab by Lalya Gaye, Maria Häkansson and Sara Ljungblad. Lalya sent me the call for participation if you want to participate, hop in! Do you enjoy taking pictures with ...
Another video game authoring tool
Thank you Aram for pointing me on Powergame Factors. It is basically a software for Mac OS X which allows people to make their own side-scrolling shooters by plugging in their own artwork, using a level editor, and controlling some variables. In the same vein as the DIY MMORPG. Power Game Factory i...
Our location based application research
We just finished a document that shortly summarizes our research projects about location-based services at Craft. It can be downloaded here (pdf, 909kb). The 4-pages document gives an overview of CatchBob!, Shoutspace and Stamps. It also presents few results about CatchBob! as well as the issue ...