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Relationship management databases dilemna
There is an interesting take on Zdnet about social protocols: "The XHTML Friends Network (XFN) microformat could eliminate the need for proprietary social networking services such as LinkedIn, Orkut, and Plaxo, if XFN was widely adopted among users and blog and Web presence authoring tools". It is ...
Peripheral awareness examples
My advisor asked me for some references about epripheral awareness applications... here are some: Some ambient media projects: - Water Lamp: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~ahutchin/AmbientMedia.htm - informative art project: http://www.viktoria.se/fal/projects/infoart/ - activity wallpaper: http://www.vi...
Some lab about interaction design I check on a regular basis
Well it's just meant to complete's Paul's list which is already great: http://ecal-mid.kaywa.com/ http://www.idl.dundee.ac.uk/~chris/blog/index.php http://www.v-2.org/ http://www.core77.com/ http://angermann2.com/ http://hub.interaction-ivrea.it/blog (not active) plus: people from FAL: http://www....
Most admired companies and innovation
Nice paper in Fortune about what it takes for admired companies to innovate. Hay Group polled executives at 160 companies on the subject of innovation and fortune gives us some results: Most companies know innovation when they see it: Sony launched the age of portable music with its Walkman; FedEx ...
Annotated google map
Engadget has a good take on how to make your own annotated multimedia Google map. One of the great things about Google maps is it has its roots in XML. To translate for the non-web developers out there, it basically means Google maps are user hackable. This how-to will show you how to make your ow...
CatchBob usage statistics
I did some rough statistics lately about how catchbob users' manage to communicate through the freehand drawing interface. I code all those messages using a simple coding scheme that focus on the content (position, direction, signal strength, strategy, offtask and acknowledgement), the mode (textua...
Analysis of Collaborative Table Use
Here is of the rendering made by 3 students (Patrick Zbinden, Jerome Caffaro and Mathias Krebs) for the collaborative table project, it's nice. It actually depicts how the pair used the table: ...
Haptic interface: an haptic box
This haptic box by Simone Gumtau looks nice and minimalistic. The point is to determine semiotic link between physical sensation, emotion and verbal expression through building an haptic box where different surfaces and textures can be felt without visual modality The content of this box is amazin...
Haptic interface: vibrobod
Neat stuff here, the Vibrobod (.pdf) is a pretty darn device (developed by Kelly Dobson, Danah Doyd, Wendy Ju, Judith Donath andHiroshi Ishi): VibroBod allows two users to communicate feeling; hand gestures and vocalizations made by one user convey emotional content to the other user. VibroBods res...