This morning I tried to list the most important HCI research journals in my domaine (general + CSCW + mobile), with the impact factor: Behavior and Information Technology Impact factor of .534 (10/03). International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction - Impact factor of .630 (10/03). Internation...
Location-based services and lampposts
An interesting news from this week: a British company plans to roll out high-speed wireless networks and location-based services using street lampposts. Last Mile Communications says the humble lamppost can be used to provide broadband Internet access and also to store useful information about thei...
Some RSS side uses
I am wondering lately about uses of RSS different than just news/blogfeed aggregation. I use RSS for: checking my agenda: I export a RSS file from my calendar. listing my research bibliography (exported from bibDesk) get weather forecast (taken from anti-mega) check technorati watchlists keep seri...
Tabletop Interaction Initiative (T2I)
Tabletop Interaction Initiative (T2I) is a research group that works on designing, realizing, and examining tabletop systems. It's led by Morten Fjeld, an Associate Professor at Dept. of Computer Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. It might be interesting but I am struggling to find...
Design for Future Needs
I stumbled across this nice project this morning: Design for Future Needs. It's a EU project that aimed at discovering how designers' methods (to look into the future to meet people’s needs) can be transfered to policy makers. The project, ran for the European Commission by a group of European d...
Electronic Plastic (Büro Destruct)
The reason why I am into electronic games lately is that I bought this nice book called "Electronic Plastic" by Büro Destruct. Electronic Plastic turns time back to the Stone Age of computer games in the early 80s, long before Gameboy and Playstation existed. Designer Jaro Gielens collected more th...
Tabletop head-to-head electronic game
Tabletop handheld is an old type of electronic game of the past that I still find of interest since they provide users with a very simple way to interact. There are no useless buttons, nor hardrive crash. Here are two examples. The first one is Gakken's paint roller: The second is Kenner's Star War...
3D sounds and virtual environment
Using 3D sound as a navigational aid in virtual environments by R. Gunther, R. Kazman and C. MacGregor. Behaviour & Information Technology, Volume 23, Number 6 / November-December 2004 As current virtual environments are less visually rich than real-world environments, careful consideration must be...
Do not put too much faith in mock-ups but...
A relevant column in ACM's Interactions magazine by Lars Erik Holmquist about the use of mock-ups and prototypes in interaction design. His claim is that it is certainly fruitful in participatory design (where users are brought in very early in the design phase) but "there is a danger with putting ...
An internet table
Intelligent Vibrations provides an "internet table" specially designed for bars and Internet Cafés : The whole surface of the table is an interactive TapScreen: clients Interact by tapping with their fingernail, pen, fork or spoon... Customers can place orders for food or drink directly from their ...