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In this talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘08 Conference, Dave Cronin discusses design strategies for creating interactive products that promote this sense of flow, as well as examples of interactions that bring out the best in human creativity, thinking and collaboration […]
Modeling software lets designers create everything from Michelangelo’s David to shock absorbers. 3D printers deliver a rapid prototype to test designs before they go into production. Jason Medal-Katz, Senior Manager of Autodesk‘s Customer Briefing Center Program, talks to Wired magazine about how 3D printing lets designers send a file to a machine that prints it out using materials like plastic, rubber or metals, and it can make both static items and ones with moving parts…
Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals, a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary. Jason believes there’s real value and beauty in the basics. Elegance, respect for people’s desire to simply get stuff done, and honest ease of use are the hallmarks of 37signals products…
Based on theories of meaningful learning and education, Co-Founder and Associate Director at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Alberto Canas presents a software tool that allows users to collaborate in the construction of shared knowledge models based on concept maps, which are used worldwide by users of all disciplines and ages, from elementary school students to NASA scientists…
Watch this demo — done by Sinisa Kolaric, PUC-Rio — of an early prototype of a human-computer interface for spatial manipulation of 3D objects, using bare (i.e. unmarked and uninstrumented) hands. Hand positions, as well as hand gestures, are recognized and tracked by a system consisting of an inexpensive stereo pair of overhead web-cameras, and of software based on the Viola-Jones detection method and KLT feature tracking…
Chris Cheung, Product Manager for Industrial Design at Autodesk, shares a sneak peek at some of the star attractions for industrial designers at AU this year, and gives a quick overview of the Industrial Design track…
Listen as Doug Eberhard, Autodesk Industry Evangelist for Digital Cities, and Pete Southwood, Geospatial Solutions Evangelist at Autodesk, discuss infrastructure modeling, its application, and examples of cities that are using these models to better plan design and deliver proposed infrastructure and urban development projects. Doug will be presenting “Digital Cities—A Model of the Future,” the Geospatial keynote at AU 2008…
Mikel Maron and Andrew Turner gave a presentation at Web2.0 Expo New York on Trends and Technologies in Where2.0. It was interesting to devise a way to cover the Geo-space in the breadth of business to hacking. To do this, they split the 45 minutes into two obvious halves: Trends, and Technology. The Trends cover cutting edge uses of location and geospatial technology in businesses and organizations. By contrast, the Technologies cover the bleeding edge of geohacking done at Burning Man this year.
We all live in a digital world, although it means different things to different people. In her inaugural public lecture as Adelaide’s Thinker in Residence, Intel’s Genevieve Bell will explore how digital technology is shaping our lives, our culture, and our future. Dr Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist and ethnographer with both an academic and industry background. Her research has provided considerable insight to the importance of culture in the adoption and adaptation of technology. She is currently the Director of User Experience in Intel Corporation’s Digital Home Group in the United States…
If you haven’t heard already, here’s what next week is all about: Autodesk University starts up next Tuesday, Dec. 2. With 650 classes and several thousand attendees spanning four days, AU is one of the largest 3D CAD events on the planet, and many–if not all–of the world’s foremost experts on Alias, Maya, Inventor and the rest of Autodesk’s stable will be in attendance, either as participants or presenters. Expect to hear of some the latest developments in 3D modeling and rendering tools, a keynote fromIDEO’s Tom Kelley, and a first-ever 3D version of the now famous Cut & Paste digital design tournament…