A very nifty document on the iperg website (do not pay attention to the crappy flash interface): "Literature Review, Design and Evaluation Methods for Pervasive Games", February 2005. Edited by Steve Benford and Mauricio Capra, The University of Nottingham Contributors:University of Nottingham: St...
Cubicle: cube-based interactions
Cubicle is an interesting research project carried out by Lancaster University Computing Department in the field of tangible computing: Cubicle is a multifaceted, multi-sensory wireless tangible input device. While its physical attributes are modular to fit user preference and ability, Cubicle func...
Clusters of Catchbob! users
Disclaimer: this post might be extra boring if you're not familiar with statistics and/or catchbob! Today I played a bit with principal components analysis and clustering techniques. The point was to categorize the behavior of CatchBob! users. On this first picture we see the repartition of the us...
A car covered with keyboard keys
(via), a car covered with keyboard keys: ...
Rendezvousing and mobile technology
Another paper about mobile technology and rendezvousing by Jeff Axup: Usability of a Mobile, Group Communication Prototype While Rendezvousing Mobile phones are increasingly being used collaboratively by social networks of users in spite of the fact that they are primarily designed to support singl...
A 'skinless headed' mastication robot
Pictures of "mastication robots" taken from the Dental Robotics Group. It's a mastication robot to understand human's mastication movement Absolutely less glamorous than the crumb test dummy! But more anthropomorphic than the chewing apparatus: ...
After the human/robot interaction, another trend tis the mixed-societies composed of animals and artificial agents
Robot/Robot and robot/human interactions are an important new trend in the field of HCI (as mentionned here). As a matter of fact, there is another tendency in robot research lately: mixed societies composed of animals and artificial agents. An example of this topic is the "Leurre" project (EU-fund...
Discovering Personally Meaningful Places from Location Data
An Experiment in Discovering Personally Meaningful Places from Location Data by Changqing Zhou, Pamela Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Loren Terveen at CHI 2005 . My notes in this abstract: Abstract: As mobile devices become location-aware, they offer the promise of powerful new applications. While compu...
Remote Controller Devices names
I am digging lately into the history of old interfaces, with a peculiar emphasis on remote controller devices for tv. It's impressing to see how the name of the devices were imaginitive and user-oriented in terms of fun/innovation. Look at the following:- the “Lazy Bones" in 1952 [Truly my favorite...
Gamepad for cellphone
(via), the BGP-1001 is an interesting add-on to turn your cell phone into a portable console. It's actually a bluetooth-enabled gamepad: I am wondering if people would use it in public transport or in a queue at the supermarket - would they carry it all day long in their bag? ...