Showing posts with label UX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UX. Show all posts

Monday, December 24, 2012

Merry Linkfest!

Here is a long list of links to posts from the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog. Many of the posts include video clips, photos, and links to resources, including articles, scholarly publications, presentations, and in some cases, interesting open-source code.

Enjoy!


  • Interactive Tablets and Learning: One Laptop Per ...
  • Crafting Gorgeous User Interfaces: Rich Robinson, ...
  • Updated: Links and Resources for coping with (and...
  • Connecting: Exploration of the Future of Interacti...
  • This Exquisite Forest: Join this massive online, c...
  • Sharing the Holiday Meme(s) - Christmas House Ligh...
  • RP-VITA, Dr. Roboto - Remote Control Telepresence...
  • Augmented Human Conference '13 (ACM CHI) March 7th...
  • Musings about still-popular Interactive Multimedia...
  • EpiCollect: A mobile app, useful for photo + data-...
  • Quick Link: Comparison of Interactive Whiteboards...
  • LINK: Mobile's Role in a Consumer's Media Day: Sma...
  • Thinking in the 21st Century: Videos...
  • First-Person User Interface; Mobile to the Future;...
  • Interactive TV Design Discussion - David Herigstad...
  • Usability of Windows 8: Food for thought from Jako...
  • Surface Tablet vs. iPad Video, via SAY Media
  • Human Computer Interaction + Informal Science Educ...
  • Knight Digital Media Center: Election shows data i...
  • Video: Overview of Multimedia Learning Principles,...
  • Revisiting the Multi-touch Parody of CNN's Magic M...
  • Jeff Han Discusses Windows 8 for Large Displays, M...
  • Interactive Display at the Local Hyundai Dealershi...
  • CFP for Special Issue of Personal and Ubiquitous C...
  • Stantum Update: Innovative Tablet and Mobile Tech...
  • iPad3 and iPad Mini: Hands-on Side-by Side Compar...
  • Got Interactive (Multimedia) Textbooks Inside Your...
  • From a Post-WIMP Perspective: What Happens When Po...
  • More Tablets, More Mobile, More Social. On The Me...
  • Tablet and Mobile Day (or Era): Lots of upcoming n...
  • Link to "Who Works with Creative Coders", by Tim S...
  • Lenovo's Touchy-Twisty Tablet-Laptops (Video)
  • Bill Moggridge left our world in September, but hi...
  • Smartphone Use Infographic, via Pew Internet and A...
  • Interactive Video: Google Doodle Star Trek Clip -...
  • A Few Awesome RSA Animate Videos
  • SAP's new Mobility Design Center: Services Describ...
  • Digital Disruption Video (Deloitte): Nice use of a...
  • Thinking about a Kurio 7 Tablet for your kid? Her...
  • Grandson and iPad: "I did it!"
  • Mobile Design Best Practices: Joshua Mauldin's UX ...
  • Tech and Stuff shared by my FB friends.
  • Sound IS Important: Sonification, sound synthesis,...
  • LONGBOARDING FREERIDE, an HD Extreme Sports video....
  • Blast from the 2009 past: News, Videos, and Links ...
  • Men's Interest Section at Barnes and Noble: Girls ...
  • Musings about NUI, Perceptive Pixel and Microsoft,...
  • TechCrunch Charlotte Highlights, Part Two- NexTabl...
  • Your Palm as Remote Controller (Video and Links)
  • Does Scanning This QR Code Make Me Look Silly? Int...
  • Updated: SEPTRIS, A Game to Teach about Sepsis, pl...
  • 60-Minutes Segment about iPads and Autism; James W...
  • Catching up on music technology: Tornado Twins' "...
  • Cute NAO robot performs "Evolution of Dance" and i...
  • Update: Video of My PlayHome App and 19-Month-Old ...
  • 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






    Sunday, February 5, 2012

    LINK LIST!

    Here is a link list to a range of posts from the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog:
    Jason Silva's multimedia review of ABUNDANCE.  Exponential Technological Progress. Less than two minutes.
    Interactive Technology:  Take a look at Corning's "Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked" Video!
    Razorfish Gesture and Touch Platform for the "Retail Experience"
    Flight of the Fireflies, an Interactive Musical Poem/Game for the iPad, by Woolly Robot (video trailer)
    Google in Education, Updated
    iBooks Textbooks for iPads, iTunesU App- and links to info about 1:1 iPad initiatives in public schools
    Quick Post: Link to a UX Gold Mine-Official Usability, User Experience, and User Interface Guidelines from Companies
    GeekDad's Post: The Changing Nature of App Design for Kids
    How to use game dynamics in the classroom, with good links, via Edudemic (Jeff Dunn)
    Immersive Learning for Math using DimensionU Games- new "Play, Learn and Earn" with an allowance component.
    Off-topic:  "Communication technology for human-dog interaction" and "The secret life of my dog: design and evaluation of a paw tracker concept"....and my dog.
    You Know You've Secretly Wanted to Learn to Code! (Info, links, video)
    3D Plug-in for SMARTBoard Notebook (Video)
    "Kinect-based Telepresence with Room Sized 3D Capture and Life Sized Display, Includes Behind-the-Scene "how-to" (UNC Chapel Hill)
    Near-Field Communication in Education? Arts? Wayfinding?
    iPads for every student in an elementary school in NC, Smartboards in the classrooms, and one awesome principal
    Christian Bannister's Interactive Multi-touch  and Gesture-based Bubcycle Project. Use your hands to shape sound, create, and manipulate music. Wow!!
    UPDATE:  EIST Call for Papers/Presentations
    Kinect in Education! (kinectEDucation)
    Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn, an awesome book from Cathy "HASTAC" Davidson
    Near Field Communication (NFC) for Smartphones at the Museum of Londun, related video, and NFC links.
    Quick Link:  The Remote - Death by Voice Control?
    46 Seconds of Steve Job's Wisdom-Vision
    MozoCam Video Demos: Great for virtual field trips, awesome HD + fluid movement
    FlatFrog Multi-touch Videos: Point Separation, Multi-input, Multi-user input
    Starbucks Cup Magic:  Augmented Reality App for iPhone and Android!
    Revisiting Good Blogs:  User Interface Engineering (Albrecht Schmidt, University of Stuttgart)
    Revisiting Good Blogs: Eager Eyes (Robert Kosara, UNC-Charlotte)
    TWINE video and the Supermechanical Blog:  Moving Towards the Web of People and Things!
    Revisiting Good Blogs:  Nathan Yau's FlowingData

    Friday, April 22, 2011

    Pervasive Retail Part I: Web UX Meets Retail CX - Screens Large and Small at the Mall, Revisited

    If you follow my blog(s), you know that I have a passion for interactive displays in public spaces, and that I enjoy watching how various technologies converge, jump across platforms and devices, inter-operate, and re-purpose over time.  


    The best places for watching this unfold, in my opinion, are airports, malls, shopping districts,  and larger "big box" establishments, where the Web meets Digital Out of Home (DOOH), old-fashioned kiosks morph into multi-touch screens and gesture-based windows, and visual merchandising meets technology, digital culture, architecture, and consumer metrics.  At the center of it all is the user/consumer - regular people, moms, dads, kids, teens, the elderly, the disabled, the hurried and the worried. Adding to the complexity is that an increasing number of people who are out-and-about are tethered to various mobile devices.


    In scholarly tech circles, the concept of DOOH is known "Pervasive Retail".  The explosion of mobile devices and ubiquitous screens has fueled the fire for research, and is the focus of the current issue of IEEE's Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.   


    Despite the influx of technology, no-one is exactly sure how to do it quite right.  (I have some ideas, which I'll save for a future post.)


    If you are interested in learning more about concepts related to "pervasive retail", the Retail Customer Experience website is a treasure trove of information related to DOOH, digital signage, multi-channel retailing, in-store media, kiosks, interactive touch screens and windows, related metrics, and more, with stories about real-life technology implementation.


    The following video, taken with my handy HTC Incredible, provides a quick sampling of the screens I encountered during a recent visit to South Park Mall, in Charlotte, N.C.  The last screens in the clip were taken in the Brookstone store, and will be included in another clip that focuses solely on all of the screens that were scattered about the retail space.  




    I have a hunch that some of the smaller displays in the Brookstone store were iPads.  iPads and tablets have great potential for use for shelf-level in-store interactive visual merchandising deployments, given the right apps and mounting systems. (See iPads as Cheap Digital Signage, by Tony Hymes of DOOHSocial and the video about Premier's iPad mounts, for more information.)

    Much of what you'll see in the following video, taken at the same mall in December of 2009, wasn't around during my most recent trip:
    Screens Large and Small at the Mall



    Interactive Coke Machine and Kid at the Mall

























    I was sad to see that the interactive screen on the Coke machine  had been replaced by an ordinary one.  Part of the problem, I think, is that the interactive display was too busy and as a consequence, made the goal getting a quick drink a bit too complicated for the average thirsty customer, as seen in the video below:



    Touch Screen Coke Machine at the Mall: 90 seconds to get a coke!


    RELATED


    Previous Posts:
    What is DOOH and Why Should We Care?


    Interactive Visual Merchandising, Interactive Window-Shopping at Nordstrom, Downtown Seattle:  "Writing with Light"
    Window Shopping in the Web Outside:  Interactive Window Displays (videos and links)
    Close Encounter with "Best Buy On": Example of a multi-channel marketing approach using in-store media and an online magazine 
    Video: Gesture Interactive Window Display at Repetto Store in France, by the Marcel Agency
    The World Is My Web Browser: Interactive Technology in Public Spaces


    References and Resources (Partial List)
    Fujitsu's Pervasive Retailing (pdf)
    Ron Brunt, InTouch with Retailing Whitepaper, 1/15/06
    When all the world is a screen
    Brian Monahan, IPG Emerging Media Blog, 4/15/11
    When all the world is a screen (The video is worth taking the time to watch.)

    Narayanswami, C.,  Kruger, A.,  Marmasse, N. Pervasive Retail, IEEE Pervasive Computing
    April-June 2011 (Vol. 10, No. 2) pp. 16-18 1536-1268/11/$26.00 © 2011 IEEE 
    References from the Pervasive Retail article:
    Mobile Retail Blueprint, Nat'l Retail Federation; www.nrf.commodules.php?name=Pages&op=viewlive&sp_id=1268 .
    G. Belkin, Pervasive Retail Business Intelligence, Aberdeen Group, Apr. 2010; www.slideshare.net/AxiomConsultingAustralia pervasive-retail-business-intelligence .
    R. Wasinger, A. Krüger, and O. Jacobs, "Integrating Intra and Extra Gestures into a Mobile and Multimodal Shopping Assistant,"Proc. 3rd Int'l Conf. Pervasive Computing (Pervasive), Springer, 2005, pp. 297–314.
    A. Meschtscherjakov et al., "Enhanced Shopping: A Dynamic Map in a Retail Store," Proc. 10th Int'l Conf. Ubiquitous Computing(UbiComp 08), ACM Press, 2008, pp. 336–339.
    C. Stahl and J. Haupert, "Taking Location Modelling to New Levels: A Map Modelling Toolkit for Intelligent Environments," Proc. Int'l Workshop Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA), LNCS 3987, Springer, 2006, pp. 74–85.

    Sunday, April 3, 2011

    Recent Interactive Multimedia Blog Post Links

    Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces: Call for Papers and Notes (6th Annual ACM ITS 2011 November 13-16)
    Call for Papers: Touch the Web 2011: 2nd International Workshop on Web-Enabled Objects
    Links:  Web of Things, Web Patterns and the EPC Cloud, Windows 8 Rumors, Human Centered Service Design
    Virtual History of Rome for the iPad, Created with Unity
    Program - CHI 2011 Child Computer Interaction: 2nd Workshop on UI Technologies and Educational Pedagogy







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    FYI: If you are new to this blog, my main blog is Interactive Multimedia Technology (IMT).  I update this blog with links to posts on the IMT blog every month or so.   I will resume this blog in this once I reduce my current workload.

    If you are interested in technology, psychology, and education, take a look at my TechPsych blog.

    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