Tomoko Takahashi's installation "My Play-station" is about ordering systems and structures, focusing in particular on toys and games. (...) Toys and games will feature throughout the installation, along with more than 7,600 objects and domestic machines that Takahashi has collected. The current ins...
Human-to-pet interaction improvements
(via), Poultry Internet, a novel cybernetics system to use mobile and Internet technology to improve human-to-pet interaction. It can also be used for people who are allergic to touching animals and thus cannot stroke them directly. This interaction encompasses both visualization and tactile sensat...
NFC powered presence
Finally a interesting hack using NCF (Near Field Communication which is besides closer to the market reality): Janne Jalkanen developed a NFC powered presence application: I took two NFC tags (essentially very small memory cards with a radio that can be read/written from up to a few centimetres), w...
Tactio: colored tangible interface
TACTIO by Guillaume Escallier; people are required to touch this object to create new colored visualizations. Simple but nice! Seen at the Lyon Light Festival last year. ...
Sequential analysis
Today I am learning the use of GSEQ, a software for the analysis of interaction sequences as desrcibed in this very interesting book: Observing Interaction : An Introduction to Sequential Analysis by Roger Bakeman, John M. Gottman. Sequential analysis is a technique that might be of interest to stu...
Usability and collaborative aspects of augmented reality
Usability and collaborative aspects of augmented reality by Morten Fjeld, in Interactions Volume 11 , Issue 6 November + December 2004. Some excerpts I find relevant: In the design process of an AR application, a series of questions related to human-computer interaction (HCI) call for attention: Wh...
For fans of fab prefab: fabprefab.com
fabprefab.com is a good resource on moderne prefab dwelling. Their list of prefab is insightful. Predominant mass-market housing programs such as project homes or tract housing largely fail to meet the desires of people who appreciate a modernist design aesthetic. Custom-designed modernist architec...
A real tetris?
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Mediating social relationship through mobile communication within groups of teenage girls
Ruth Kikkin-Gil's masters thesis seems nice. It's about "mediating social relationship through mobile communication within groups of teenage girls". The extremity in teenagers’ attitudes and actions coupled with the opportunities of mobile communication, creates new behaviors and re-shapes existing...
Most influential things and designers nowadays
ICON magazine has a good review of the 21 most influential people who are changing the contemporary design landscape and products, organisations and ideas that everyone will be copying in the immediate future: Ikea is first...then it's Rapid prototyping, Easyjet, Milan, Design Academy Eindhoven...A...