Showing posts with label HCI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HCI. Show all posts

Friday, July 13, 2012

29 links to recent Interactive Multimedia Technology posts, for techies and the tech-curious

Update:  Video of My PlayHome App and 19-Month-Old Toddler


Quick Post:  Design for Emotion, co-authored by Trevor van Gorp and Edie Adams


CFP for Special Issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing on Educational Interfaces, Software, and Technology (EIST)


CFP:  Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Feb 10-13, Barcelona, Spain


TechCrunch Charlotte Highlights:  T1 Vision, inTouch Collaborative Software


PO-MO, a creative group that combines digital art, interaction, movement, and play to create engaging surfaces and spaces


Digitized History and Interactive Timelines:  Lots of examples and links for your exploring pleasure!


Quirky, Fun Webisode from Dot Diva (a website that encourages young women to pursue careers in technology)


Checking out Recline js, an open-source, browser-based HTML and JavaScript library for data:  "Relax with your data".


Good news for knowledge junkies!  Data Journalism Handbook:  How journalists can use data to improve the news, available online.


Infographic about CISPA, contrasted with SOPA, by Lumin Consulting. Food for thought for those who might be mistakenly viewed as a "cyber threat".


iMac Touch Concept Video -in case you missed it.


Quick link:  Nextgov, "the all-day information resource for federal technology decision makers".


ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:  May 5-10, Austin, Texas


Interactive Technology from CHI 2012 Supporting Literacy, Storytelling, and Narrative


Looking forward to CHI 2012:  Child Computer Interaction, Educational Interfaces, Health, Special Needs, and Much More! (Includes several preview videos.)


NUITEQ's Latest Multitouch Showreel:  Snowflake Suite


Games for Health Conference:  June 12-14, Hyatt Harborside Hotel, Boston, MA


Johnny Chung Lee's Recent Words of Wisdom & Google's Open-Source Ceres Non-Linear Least Squares Solver


Vignettes exploring the dual capacities of software and medicine to heal and hurt. Food for thought, by Jonathan Harris


Interactive Music Challenge:  The Reactable & the Reactable for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders


FYI: TEDEd  Education Beta Website and YouTube Channel


FYI: Google's Knowledge Graph


Urban Musical Game:  Play with musical-sensor sports balls and friends (Real-Time Musical Interactions Team at IRCAM)


Quick CHI 2012 Slideshow


A fun HTML interactive music video:  Evelyn, performed by Abby, Coded by Bleech


Leap Motion:  Low Cost Gesture Control for Your Computer Display


First Moment of Truth in digital signage environments:  Bill Gerba's Words of Wisdom




PhD. Student Positions:  Intel Collaborative Research Institute on Sustainable Connected Cities


More about the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Cities






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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Why GUI to NUI? Why WIMP to post-WIMP? Do we have the seeds of a manifesto?!

This is a remix of one of my recent long-titled blog posts, "Why bother switching from GUI to NUI?", asked and answered by Josh Blake; my "2 cents"; Stevie B's Microsoft Research video, Marco Silva's NUI-HCI presentation, and links".   


I think we have the beginnings  of a GUI to NUI/ postWIMP manifesto here.


In Chapter 1 of Natural User Interfaces in .NET,  Josh Blake asks and answers a question posed by many people who have been under the spell of keyboard input and GUI/ WIMP interaction: 


Why bother switching from GUI to NUI?  The answer?  Read Chapter 1 (pdf) of the book - the chapter is free.


Here are a few of my personal reasons:  
1.  I want to buy the next version of the iPad or something like it.
2.  I want to buy a new large-screen Internet HD TV.
3.  I want to buy a Kinect.
4.  I do NOT want to interact with my new TV with a Sony remote.  Too many tiny buttons!


5. I do NOT want to interact with my new TV with a keyboard,  because it reminds me of...work.

6.  Most importantly: 

I want to design apps for the people I care about, and others with similar needs:
    My mom.  
    My grandson.
Moms and dads with kids in tow.
People with special needs and/or health concerns, and the people who care and guide them.
Knowledge sharers and (life-long) learners....

RELATED

"Smart" Interactive Display Research

 
View more presentations from Marco Silva

My YouTube Playlist:
"Natural user interfaces, gesture interaction, multi-touch, natural interaction, post WIMP examples and more... "


RELATED - and somewhat related   
Encyclopedia:  Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, User Experience, Information Architecture, Usability and More (Interaction-Design.org)

Josh Blake's Blog: Deconstructing the NUI    Book: Chapter 1 (pdf)  Free!
Blake.NUI
"Blake.NUI is a collection of helpful controls, utilities, and samples useful for multi-touch and NUI development with WPF, Surface, and Silverlight."
 (This is not an inclusive list.)


GUI to NUI Post-WIMP Manifesto:  TBA

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Saturday, December 4, 2010

CHI 2011 Schedule of 25 Workshops Announced: UX, HCI, Digital Arts, Brain/Body/Computer Interface, Child-Computer Interaction, Urban/Mobile, Design, and more -calls for participation/papers open NOW!


List of ACM CHI 2011 Workshops

Calls for workshop participation/papers are open now!

W1: Managing User Experience Teams: lessons from case studies, establishing best practices
Saturday & Sunday May 7-8th, 2011
Contact: Dennis Wixon, denniswi@microsoft.com 
Organizers: Dennis Wixon, Janice Rohn

W2: HCI, Politics and the City: Engaging with Urban Grassroots Movements for Reflection and Action
Saturday & Sunday May 7-8th, 2012
Contact: Stacey Kuznetsov, stace@cs.cmu.edu
Organizers: Stacey Kuznetsov, William Odom, Vicki Moulder, Carl DiSalvo, Tad Hirsch, Ron Wakkary, Eric Paulos

W3: Data Collection by the People, for the People
Saturday & Sunday May 7-8th, 2013
Contact: Christine Robson, cmrobson@gmail.com
Organizers: Christine Robson, Sean Kandel, Jeffrey Heer, Jeffrey Pierce

W4: Analytic Provenance: Process+Interaction+Insight
Saturday & Sunday May 7-8th, 2014
Contact: Wenwen Dou, wdou1@uncc.edu
Organizers: Chris North, Remco Chang, Alex Endert, Wenwen Dou, Richard May, Bill Pike, Glenn Fink

W5: The User in Flux: Bringing HCI and Digital Arts Together to Interrogate Shifting Roles in Interactive Media
Saturday & Sunday May 7-8th, 2015
Contact: Tuck Leong, tuckwah@gmail.com
Organizers: Tuck Leong, Lalya Gaye, Atau Tanaka, Robyn Taylor, Peter Wright

W6: Visible - Actionable - Sustainable: Sustainable Interaction Design in Professional Domains
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Daniela Busse, daniela.busse@sap.com
Organizers: Leonardo Bonanni, Daniela Busse, John C Thomas, Eli Blevis, Marko Turpeinen, Nuno Jardim Nunes

W7: Personal Informatics and HCI: Design, Theory, and Social Implications
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Ian Li, ianli@cmu.edu
Organizers: Ian Li, Anind Dey, Jodi Forlizzi, Kristina Höök, Yevgeniy Medynskiy

W8: ETHICS, LOGS, and VIDEOTAPE: Ethics in Large Scale User Trials and User Generated Content
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Alistair Morrison, morrisaj@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Organizers: Matthew Chalmers, Donald McMillan, Alistair Morrison, Henriette Cramer, Mattias Rost, Adam Greenfield, Wendy Mackay

W9: Gamification: Using Game-Design Elements in Non-Gaming Contexts
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Sebastian Deterding, s.deterding@hans-bredow-institut.de
Organizers: Sebastian Deterding, Miguel Sicart, Lennart Nacke, Kenton O'Hara, Dan Dixon

W10: Distributed User Interfaces 2011
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Jose A. Gallud, jgallud@umh.es
Organizers: Jose A. Gallud, Ricardo Tesoriero, Jean Vanderdonckt, MarÌa Lozano

W11: Large Displays in Urban Life - from Exhibition Halls to Media Facades
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Uta Hinrichs, uhinrich@ucalgary.ca
Organizers: Uta Hinrichs, Nina Valkanova, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Giulio Jacucci, Sheelagh Carpendale, Ernesto Arroyo

W12: Video Interaction - Making Broadcasting a Successful Social Media
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Oskar Juhlin, oskarj@tii.se
Organizers: Oskar Juhlin, Erika Reponen, Frank Bentley, David Kirk, MÂns Adler

W13: Privacy for a Networked World: Bridging Theory and Design
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Airi Lampinen, airi.lampinen@hiit.fi
Organizers: Airi Lampinen, Fred Stutzman, Markus Bylund

W14: Child Computer Interaction: Workshop on UI Technologies and Educational Pedagogy
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Edward Tse, edwardtse@smarttech.com
Organizers: Edward Tse, Johannes Schˆning, Jochen Huber, Lynn Marentette, Richard Beckwith, Yvonne Rogers, Max M¸hlh‰user

W15: Designer Experience: Exploring Ways to Design in Experience
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Mika Nieminen, mika.nieminen@tkk.fi
Organizers: Mika Nieminen, Mikael Runonen, Marko Nieminen, Mari Tyllinen
W16: Designing Interaction for the Cloud
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: David England, d.england@ljmu.ac.uk. 
Organizers: David England, Martin Randles, A Taleb-Bendiab, Jhilmil Jain, Arnie Lund
Organizers: James Pierce, Hronn Brynjarsdottir, Phoebe Sengers, Yolande Strengers
W19: Bridging Practices, Theories, and Technologies to Support Reminiscence
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Dan Cosley, danco@cs.cornell.edu
Organizers: Dan Cosley, Maurice Mulvenna, Victoria Schwanda, S. Tejaswi Peesapati

W20: Appropriation and Creative Use: Linking User Studies and Design
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Antti Salovaara, antti.salovaara@hiit.fi
Organizers: Antti Salovaara, Kristina Höök, Keith Cheverst, Michael Twidale, Matthew Chalmers, Corina Sas

W21: PINC: Persuasion, Influence, Nudge & Coercion through Mobile Devices
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Parisa Eslambolchilar, p.eslambolchilar@swansea.ac.uk
Organizers: Parisa Eslambolchilar, Max Wilson, Ian Oakley, Anind Dey

W22: Feminism and Interaction Design
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Shaowen Bardzell, selu@indiana.edu
Organizers: Shaowen Bardzell, Elizabeth Churchill, Jeffrey Bardzell, Jodi Forlizzi, Rebecca Grinter, Deborah Tartar

W23: Mobile and Personal Projection
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Enrico Rukzio, enrico.rukzio@uni-due.de
Organizers: Raimund Dachselt, Matt Jones, Jonna H‰kkil‰, Markus Lˆchtefeld, Michael Rohs, Enrico Rukzio

W24: Dynamic Accessibility: Accommodating Differences in Ability and Situation
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Amy Hurst, amyhurst@umbc.edu
Organizers: Amy Hurst, Krzysztof Gajos, Leah Findlater, Jacob Wobbrock, Andrew Sears, Shari Trewin

W25: Social Game Studies at CHI 2011
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Ben Kirman, bkirman@lincoln.ac.uk
Organizers: Ben Kirman, Staffan Björk, Sebastian Deterding, Janne Paavilainen, Valentina Rao

W26: Brain and Body Interfaces: Designing for Meaningful Interaction
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Kiel Gilleade, gilleade@gmail.com
Organizers: Stephen Fairclough, Kiel Gilleade, Lennart Nacke, Regan Mandryk

W27: Embodied Interaction: Theory and Practice in HCI
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Alissa Antle, aantle@sfu.ca
Organizers: Alissa Antle, Paul Marshall, Elise van den Hoven

W28: Performative Interaction in Public Space
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Lone Koefoed Hansen, koefoed@hum.au.dk
Organizers: Lone Koefoed Hansen, Julie Rico, Giulio Jacucci, Stephen Brewster

W29: Crowdsourcing and Human Computation: Systems, Studies and Platforms
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Rob Miller, rcm@mit.edu
Organizers: Michael Bernstein, Ed Chi, Lydia Chilton, Björn Hartmann, Aniket Kittur, Robert Miller

W30: Transnational HCI: Humans, Computers, and Interactions in Transnational Contexts
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Janet Vertesi, jvertesi@princeton.edu
Organizers: Janet Vertesi, Silvia Lindtner, Irina Shklovski

RELATED
CHI 2011 will be held from May 7 through May 12, 2011

"The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of human-computer interaction. CHI 2011 focuses on leveraging our diversity and connecting people, cultures, technologies, experiences, and ideas.
CHI 2011 will be held in gorgeous, energetic, sophisticated Vancouver BC, a city renowned for its innovation in sustainability, accessibility, and inclusivity. The New York Times calls it, "a liquid city, a tomorrow city, equal parts India, China, England, France and the Pacific Northwest." Join us at CHI 2011 in Vancouver and prepare yourself for a great time Connecting..."

"CHI 2011 will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia on Canada's West Coast.
The official website for visitors to Vancouver: www.tourismvancouver.com "

Desney Tan, Microsoft Research

Bo Begole, PARC
Wendy Kellogg, IBM Research

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

More links to posts, videos, and pics about interactivity, NUI, HCI, interactive infoviz, multitouch, UX...

Below are links to some of my recent posts about natural user interaction and interfaces (NUI), table-top and surface computing, human-computer interaction (HCI),  user experience/ interaction design, educational technology, games, and more.  Most of the posts contain pictures, videos, and/or interesting links.


Enjoy!

EyeTube for YouTube! Eye-gaze interaction software, free and downloadable from GazeGroup

Open-source Eye-tracking: The ITU Gaze Tracker 2.0 Beta, Via Martin Tall, NUI Group Member

3D Browser-based Science Games from Muzzy Lane: T...



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

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Friday, September 24, 2010

Large Scale Networked Pervasive Public Displays- PD-NET (cross-post)

I love the concept of interactive, networked public displays!   The PD-NET project has a fairly new website and a Facebook page.  If this interests you, take the time to learn about the PD-NET project, a collaborative effort between researchers from several different universities in Europe. I'd like to see this take hold in the US.  (Cross-posted on the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog.)

PD-NET Project Objectives (From the PD-NET Website):
  • To create enabling technologies for large-scale pervasive display networks through the design, development, and evaluation of a robust, scalable, distributed and open platform for interconnecting displays and their sensors.
  • To establish Europe as the international centre for work on pervasive display networks.
  • To address key scientific challenges that may inhibit the widespread adoption of pervasive display network technology:  Tensions between privacy and personalization, situated displays, business and legislative requirements, User Interaction.
Here is a list of participating universities and researchers, taken from the PD-NET website:

Lancaster University, (UK)
Participants from Lancaster:
University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)

Participants from Duisburg-Essen:

University of Lugano (Italy)

Participants from Lugano:

University of Minho (Portugal)

Participants from Minho:

Publication
J. Müller, F. Alt, D. Michelis, and A. Schmidt, "Requirements and Design Space for Interactive Public Displays," in Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (Multimedia 2010), to appear, 2010.

COMMENT

If you are familiar with this blog, you know that I am passionate about interactive displays, especially in public spaces.  I've devoted numerous posts to this topic on this blog, and also on  The World Is My Interactive Interface, a blog I started a few years ago when I was working on projects for large interactive displays.  

I am interested in how interactive displays, of any size, can be accessible and universally designed, especially those that can inter-operate with mobile devices, including devices that support communication for people with special needs.

SOMEWHAT RELATED
Here are links to some of my previous blogposts related to the topic of interactive displays in public spaces.  Some have links to scholarly publications.  I
What is DOOH and Why Should We Care? (DOOH- Digital Out-Of-Home)
Interactive Displays and Interaction (Presentation via Daniel Michelis)

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