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Watch Johnny Lee’s “Wii Remote hacks” demos at TED
Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged 3D software, Demos, educational tools, Game, Gaming Culture, gestural interfaces, Human-computer interaction, Johnny Lee, microsoft, multi-touch, Natal, Power Architecture, tangible interfaces, TED conference, typography, User experience design, User interface, Wii, Xbox 360 Leave a comment
Watch Marc Rettig’s “How to Change Complicated Stuff” talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 Conference
In this talk Marc Rettig offers insights into the question "what is it like to actually achieve a meaningful, sustainable, positive difference in life?", drawing lessons from a number of serious, heartfelt attempts to affect change. The work we have all done in recent decades has prepared us to take on much bigger challenges. The foundations of design remain powerfully effective. That said, there are ways in which “designing for change” requires additions to our inventory of methods, and transformations in the way we plan and conduct our work [...]
Posted in design, innovation Also tagged Andersen Consulting, Anthropology, architect, Architectural design, Chicago, Computational Linguistics, design, designer, Human-computer interaction, Illinois, Institute of Design, Interaction '09, Interaction Design, Interaction Design Association, IxDA, Marc Rettig, microsoft, New York University, Nissan, NYU, Rosenfeld Media, Software development process, software interfaces, sustainability, United States, User experience design, UXNet, Web, Whirlpool Leave a comment
Watch Golan Levin making art that looks back at you at TED
Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at the curious viewer [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged artist, cognitive research, Cognitive researcher, Cognitive Science, computer technology, education, Golan Levin, high tech, Interactive Installation, Museum, performance artist, Pittsburg Museum of Art, software engineering, software programs, TED conference, Time-Based Leave a comment
Watch Golan Levin’s “The software (as) art” talk at TED
Engineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two programs he wrote to perform his original compositions [...]
Dan Saffer’s “Attention Awareness” Keynote at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 Conference
Dan Saffer calls out the Interaction Design community for allowing distracting topics to consume our attention, and for paying too little attention to "moonwalking bears," the opportunities interaction designers can take advantage of in the near future [...]
Posted in consumer behavior, design Also tagged Amazon, Dan Saffer, designer, founder, Industrial, Interaction Design, Interaction Design Association, Interaction Designer, IxDA Leave a comment
“Tap is the New Click”: Dan Saffer´s talk at NYC IxDA Face-to-Face meeting
How do you create products for this new paradigm? While most of us know how to design desktop and web applications, what do you need to know to design for interactive gestures? This introduction to designing gestural interfaces will cover the basics: usability and ergonomics; a brief history of the technology; some elemental patterns of use; prototyping and documenting; and how to communicate that a gestural interface is present to users [...]
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Watch Randy Pausch’s “Really achieving your childhood dreams” talk at TED