A categorization of people behavior in conferences (seen in 360 ezine): A research team led by Steelcase Inc. has studied how people behave at conferences and how the space supports their activities … or not. Among the key findings: people display a range of behaviors that correlate to how connecte...
Eric Von Hippel: Democratizing Innovation
Eric Von Hippel'sDemocratizing Innovation is downloadable on his webpage. According to the book description seen on Amazon: In Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel looks closely at this emerging system of user-centered innovation. He explains why and when users find it profitable to develop ne...
MouseField: motion controller
Mousefield by Masui, T. , Tsukada, K. and Siio, I: a new simple and versatile input device called the MouseField, which enables users to control various information appliances easily without huge amount of cost. A MouseField consists of an ID recognizer and motion sensors that can detect an object ...
Teddy bear used a remote control
I like this teddy bear used a remote control (I am pretty much into kids tangible interface lately, working for a consulting about it). This project carried ou at IDI is called Quattro Didier Hilhorst and Nicholas Zambetti. Quattro is a radio alarm clock housed in an enigmatic translucent enclosure...
Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea
Yes we were here to exchange a bit and network: It was a fruitful visit! ...
Convergence between interaction Design and robots design
Interestingly, we see more and more mentions of research about robots with regard to interaction design and user experience concerns. This is a good move (in the sense that if robots designers wants their products to be bought or "consumed" they need to pay attention to what users may do/wants/feel...
DIY mobile projector
The Pooch (a team from Lancaster University, UK) has an awesome project: a DIY mobile projector: Due to the lack of suitable commercial projectors of this type, .:thePooch:. set about creating just such a device. Using simple and cheap off-the-shelf components, it is possible to achieve unexpectedl...
Bluetooth and proximity interactions
(via), Sensor: n application that use Bluetooth to indicate and start proximity interactions - i.e. people within 10-30m of you. You create a folio - like a little web page - that others in your physical location can see. The website gives more detail: Nokia Sensor is a spontaneous, sociable applic...
Talk in IDI, Ivrea
Tomorrow our lab will visit IDI in Ivrea. We have a joint meeting to present the work from both IDI and CRAFT (the lab in which I work). Here are my slides. It briefly summarizes the results of CatchBob! first experimentas well as what we did during the CSCW course. ...
A mobile game replay tool
Seen in Life on the edge: supporting collaboration in location-based experiences by Steve Benford et al.: This tool is used to analyze the Savanah players behavior. I am trying to gather some information about different replay tool (different from our CatchBob replay tool) to list the relevant feat...