An old project but still relevant: Digital Tape Drawing (.pdf) by Ravin Balakrishnan, George Fitzmaurice, Gordon Kurtenbach and William Buxton. Tape drawing is the art of creating sketches on large scale upright surfaces using black photographic tape. Typically used in the automotive industry, it i...
Great Eye-toy interaction with PS3
Brian D. Crecente describes the , PS3 game demonstrations that Sony recently gave. The point I am interested in is the use of the eye-toy to interact with the game: The ones I found most impressive include the demonstration of real world objects being used to manipulate the game world with the help...
Chainsaw game controller
Another crazy game controller: Bloody Resident Evil 4 Chainsaw Controller designed by NubyTech , in partnership with Capcom. According to Lik-sang. Designed with an actual Chainsaw lying in the middle of the R&D lab during brainstorming sessions, this massive sculpted controller comes with a built...
Pigs can play video-game (snout-based joystick)
I came across this stunning research project: Animal scientist Stan Curtis and graduate student Candace Croney have embarked on a unique research project that uses video games to gauge the mental abilities of pigs. (...) to learn more about how pigs perceive the world by using video games to measur...
Numerical keypad: cell phone versus computer
(via the very nicely done a href="http://www-clips.imag.fr/multicom/partenariat/Multifiche">french ergonomist website multifiches) Interesting comparison between the numerical keypad of a cell phone to the keypad of a computer: Rinck M. and Ellwart T. (2004). Repetition priming during the use and r...
Psychnology special issue about space/place and technology
Psychnology's new issue is about Place and Space in Mediated Communication. It's the first issue among two about this topic. The choice of the Journal is to reflect on the ways in which Space and Place can be connected to human experience in mediated environments, namely to human 'Presence' there....
Uses of RSS
(via and bloggingpro), a great list of things people can do with RSS, compiled by Tim Yang Get the news as it happens from multiple news sources Collect your email from all your email accounts in your RSS reader (mailbucket) Track Fedex packages Get notified of bargains at Ebay (rssauction) Get s...
Catch-a-live lobster
The famous "Catch-a-live-lobster Machine" in Osaka, foun here: ...
Real-time, multi-site, distributed, interactive music performance
A project by the Integrated Media System Center (University of Southern California): Distributed Immersive Performance (DIP): This project is working on the architecture, technology and experimental applications of a real-time, multi-site, distributed, interactive and collaborative environment call...
Gridlockd
(via mauro), Gridlockd by Mohit SantRam at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University: GridLockd! is a large urban game where four teams compete to capture as many grid positions within a half hour on a city-based game board. Loosely based on O...