[I started making weeknotes too, This is week 105 because I started working at Liftlab 105 weeks ago] Last week-end was a sort of retreat/holiday to recover from Lift10... and work on the "Lift insight" report, which will summarize the various topics that has been addressed at the Lift 10 confere...
More and more complex pedometer games
Pedometers connected to video-games are more and more complex, as attested by this Pokéwalker, a Poké Ball-shaped pedometer which can connect to Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver game cards via infrared signals. See the possibilities: "It uses a currency known as "watts", which are obtained as the ...
Les Editions Volumiques, Paper computing and curious reading interactions
Les Editions Volumiques finally launched their website showing plenty of curious and original products based on mixing paper and digital technologies: "Here are the first pieces of les évolutions dynamiques following research on both volume and interactivity, playfully mixing paper and computation...
Verbs and design and verbs
Looking at interaction design metaphors lately, I've been reading Chris Crawford's "The Art of Interactive Design: A Euphonious and Illuminating Guide to Building Successful Software". As mentioned in this other blogpost, I like his approach that uses verbs: Using linguistics as a metaphor for HCI/...
Last week, recent encounters
[Short note: blogging is more and more difficult with travels, consulting gigs and the need to spend some time offline, i will try to post some form of weeknotes with a visual and short text twist. It's not very fancy, only curious stuff I've stumbled across and collected last week. Of course I'll ...
Actor-Network Theory and design
The paper "Making the Social Hold: Towards an Actor-Network Theory of Design" by Albena Yaneva is an interesting contribution to the role of Actor-Network Theory in design. It basically shows how various ANT concepts can be relevant and insightful in the context of designing artifacts. Relying on...
Pianococktail and the convergence of artifacts
An intriguing encounter this afternoon with a pianococktail, i.e. a piano that mixes drinks based on the combination of keys played. Being a reader of Boris Vian, running across this crazy object he described in his novel “L’ecume des Jours” ("Froth on the Daydream") is always a pleasure. The one ...
Phone surface
Give people a surface next to a phone... and it's going to be used for annotations and crazy scribblings. Seen at CERN last week. ...
"Research" in Design
Lift10 is over and I finally found some time to work on my stack of books. Which lead me to this book that Lysianne gave me during the conference: Recherche-création en design. Modèles pour une pratique expérimentale. This book (only in French) is the final milestone in a swiss research project c...
A definition of transduction
An interesting quote that will certainly frame our current work on the gamepad project: "the term [transduction] denotes a process – be it physical, biological, mental or social – in which an activity gradually sets itself in motion, propagating within a given area, by basing this propagation on a ...