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Friday, June 17, 2011

LINKS AND UPDATES: Emerging and interactive technologies/apps, related posts

I haven't been able to keep up this blog due to a very busy schedule. The good news is that I've continued to keep up with my Interactive Multimedia Technology blog - below is a list of links to posts spanning across the past few months that I cut and pasted into this post. Enjoy!

Calming Technologies Research, Stanford University

Take a short break to enjoy a performance by the KAIST Mobile Phone Orchestra

"Visualize This": Nathan Yau's (FlowingData) book...

Are girls allowed in Google's tool shop? Just wondering

Saturday, April 23, 2011

April 25th Release Date: Play and Experiment with Music on your iPad/Phone/Pod with NodeBeat iOS Music Sequencer by Affinity Blue, by Seth Sandler and Justin Windle

If you love music and have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, you'll have fun exploring and experimenting with NodeBeat. As soon as I get my iPad, I plan to get this app!

"NodeBeat is an experimental node-based audio sequencer and generative music application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. NodeBeat is designed to let you create a variety of rhythmic sequences and ambient melodies in an intuitive fashion. It is scheduled for release on April 25th." -Affinity Blue

NodeBeat - iOS Music Sequencer from AffinityBlue on Vimeo.

NodeBeat is a collaboration between Seth Sandler and Justin Windle. It was developed using openFrameworks, with PureData for audio synthesis. According to the NodeBeat website, "Octaves and Notes make up the two types of nodes. Octaves pulse and send messages to Notes within proximity. Each Octave is assigned a random octave and each Note, a random note; therefore, a Note will play in several octaves depending on the Octave it's connected to. Pause nodes to create your own beats or let them roam free to have them generate their own." Features include adjustable node physics, node add/remove, pitch shift, adjustable pulse rate and beat sync, adjustable echo, attack, decay, and release for creative sound sculpting, and for the iPad, audio waveform display and landscape/portrait views.

RELATED
NodeBeat website
Seth Sandler's posts about music
Seth's posts and videos about AudioTouch, and interactive multi-touch interfaces for computer music exploration and collaboration.
Soulwire (Justin Windle's blog)

Cross posted on the Interactive Multimedia Technology and TechPsych blogs.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Virtual Choir 2.0 "Sleep": 2052 People, 58 Countries, Conducted by Eric Whitacre:

For more information: The Virtual Choir

Eric Whitacre's TED Talk: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Links to posts, videos, and pics related to interactivity and technology...

I've been busy lately, so here are some links to recent posts from my Interactive Multimedia Technology and TechPsych blogs that might be of interest:

Osmosis: Multi-touch systems for... everywhere!

Interactive 360-Degree Glass-less 3D Video Display with Gesture Sensor: Demo of Sony's RayModeler

Bill Buxton's Presentation Video: "A Little Tale about Touch" (Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, 2010)

Will the iPad rejuvenate journalism and sustain the growth of "slow media"? (Video via ZDNet)

Laying the Groundwork for Interactive Video Activities for Students with Special Needs: Community Road Trip

Reflections About Interactivity in my Present World

Wendy Keay-Bright's ReacTickles revised for use on the multi-touch SMARTTable!

Quick links to videos of new SMARTTable activities

For Multi-Touch Techies and the Tech Curious: Touch and Retouch article, with code samples, by Charles Petzold

"The World Is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education" - by Curtis J. Bonk

Almost missed this: "MSI Announces Availability of the World's First 3D Multi-touch All-in-one in America"

For the iPad: Reactable Multi-touch Mobile (also contains links to similar iPad applications)

Off Topic: Ad with 100 cute cats and kittens roaming free around IKEA (plus 2 video clips of cute kittens and 1 of "dancing" dogs)

For Techies and the Tech-Curious: A Few Links- IEEE Multimedia Innovations, Surface Computing, Usability, and Computer Education Research

A few interesting links- Innovative Interactivity on Google's "Life In A Day"; rb.trends "Mind Music"; Strombergs Blog "The Future of TV, Augmented and Social"

iPad Apps: Supporting Communication for Young People with Autism (& Links to Moms with Apps)

Planet in Action's 3D Sound in Google Earth: Part of the Interactive, Touchable 3D Picture (and thoughts about how this might play out on interactive whiteboards in education)

Video Experiments: Sea Life Medley-Extended Version with Music

Propellerheads' Gigantic Outdoor Drum Machine: Another "Playful Interface" and Media Facade - Using Phidgets!

Update & Links about the Interface Culture Exhibition at the 2010 Ars Electronica Festival, via Martin Kaltenbrunner

iRiS Interaction at the Playful Interface Cultures Exhibition & Ars Electronica Festival (video, short post, and links)

I wish I could go to the Playful Interface Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival!

Settlers of Catan Game by Vectorform Game Studio, on a Microsoft Surface

Interactive: Mirror Fun and Diamonds Alchemy Game, by Playbat

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Interactive interfaces at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts

This video gives some background about the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and also provides a glimpse of some interesting interfaces and interaction.

forward/slash: The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Story from GAFFTA on Vimeo.

"Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to building social consciousness through digital culture. Guided by the principles of openness, collaboration, and resource sharing, our programs promote creativity at the intersection of art, design, sound, and technology. By making digital culture accessible, substantive and inspiring, we aim to help realize the greatest power of technology: to bring us closer, faster. For more information and how you can be a part of our vision, please visit gaffta.org"

Thanks to Seth Sandler for the link!
(This is a cross-post.)

Friday, February 20, 2009

User Experience and IKEA

http://demo.fb.se/e/ikea/comeintothecloset2/screen.jpg

I wrote about IKEA's interactive website in a previous post, before the new IKEA store opened in my area, and since then, I counted the days until it opened.

The grand opening was this week, and I went shopping there last night with one of my daughters.

I ate the Swedish meatballs in the cafeteria. I wanted to buy things.

We decided that IKEA uses some sort of aroma-therapy/mind control through out the store.

This was my first visit to an IKEA, and it was awesome. They had flat-panel televisions all over the place. I was hoping that one of the displays would be connected to that cute IKEA website, KOM IN I GARDEROBEN. The English version: Come Into the Closet.

It would have been fun to control the dancers while sitting on a showroom sofa, using gestures.

From the IKEA Website:

"This is a campaign to promote IKEA's wardrobe solutions. IKEA wanted to show their huge range of styles and all the smart features on the inside....All the movements on the web site are controlled by sound and music.So change songs, upload your own music, play on your keyboard or sing into the microphone."

For more details:

IKEA's Interactive Dancing and Musical Website

Enjoy the site!

Monday, January 5, 2009

IKEA's Interactive Dancing and Musical Website "Welcome to the Closet", via Kinetic Interface (cross-post )

Doug Fox, of the Kinetic Interface blog (part of Great Dance), shared IKEA's new promotional site that allows for tons of multimedia interaction. The website features a series of rooms to highlight various products.

Visit Come into the Closet!
IKEA Interactive Multimedia Game

Unlike most static, or even flash-based websites, the user has control over many dimensions of experience:

Simply watch the dancers and listen to the music, navigating from room to room
Control the dancers by tapping on your computer's keyboard
Control the dancers by clapping, singing, or making other noises
Combine tapping your keys while watching and listening
Upload your own Mp3's and watch the dancers dance

According to Duncan, of the The Inspiration Room Daily, the site won an award at the Epica Awards.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3291/2850611786_e93741d55a.jpg?v=0

Here is a video preview of some of the dance interaction in the site:

http://giavasan.diludovico.it/wp-content/plugins/hot-linked-image-cacher/upload/usera.imagecave.com/giavasan/Ikea.jpg

http://blog.momentfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/ikeacloset.png

Duncan, of the Inspiration Room, also posted credit information regarding the IKEA website:

The following credits were posted by Duncan on the Inspiration Room Daily:

"The site was developed at Forsman Bodenfors, Sweden by web director Mathias Appelblad, copywriter Fredrik Jansson, art director Anders Eklind, designers Anton Robsarve and Christoffer Persson, agency producers Peter Gaudiano, Charlotte Most, Asa Jansson, account director Philip Mascher."

"An earlier version of the site was developed in 2006, winning a Yellow Pencil at the DandDs, and can be viewed online at Forsman Bodenfors."

"Web development was done at Kokokaka, Gothenburg."

"Filming was shot by director Amir Chamdin via Chamdin & Stöhr, Stockholm, with director of photography Gosta Reiland."

"Music is by Dead Mono."

Cross-posted from the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Chris O'Shea's Pixelsumo July Digest Posts - Design, Interactive Technology and the Arts

One of my favorite blogs is Chris O'Shea's "Pixelsumo". His July Digest is a compilation of the things he wished he had time to write about, saying, "I am finding less time to blog these days, and my list of things to blog keeps getting bigger and bigger. From now on I will do a Pixelsumo digest at the end of each month, containing projects that didn’t make it into full posts in time.
So to start off, here are projects I wish I had written about recently…"

Go on a treasure hunt to learn more about Pixelsumo by following the tags below:

Here are the intriguing pictures from Chris O'Shea's July Digest. You will have to visit Pixelsumo to find out what they represent!

http://www.pixelsumo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/biome.jpg

http://www.pixelsumo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/knarre-web.jpg

http://www.pixelsumo.com/wp-content/uploads/snog.jpg

http://www.pixelsumo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/applause.jpg

http://www.pixelsumo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/primalsource.jpg

http://www.pixelsumo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/snout.jpg

http://www.pixelsumo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/postspectacular.jpg

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