Monday, December 24, 2012
Merry Linkfest!
Enjoy!
Friday, November 4, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS: Educational Interfaces, Software, and Technology, ACM CHI 2012
This will be our third annual workshop in conjunction with CHI 2012.
- Gestural input, multitouch, large displays
- Mobile Devices, response systems (clickers)
- Tangible, VR, AR & MR, Multimodal interfaces
- Console gaming, 3D input devices
- Co-located interaction, presentations
- Educational Pedagogy, learner-centric, Child Computer Interaction
- Empirical methods, case studies
- Multi-display interaction
- Wearable educational media
Website: http://smarttech.com/eist2012
Contact: Edward Tse, SMART Technologies, edwardtse@smarttech.com
Workshop Organizers: https://sites.google.com/site/eist2012/home/organizers
Important Dates: https://sites.google.com/site/eist2012/home/dates
Friday, April 22, 2011
Pervasive Retail Part I: Web UX Meets Retail CX - Screens Large and Small at the Mall, Revisited
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.)
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.
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I was sad to see that the interactive screen on the Coke machine had been replaced by an ordinary one.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:
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.)
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
Saturday & Sunday May 7-8th, 2011
Contact: Dennis Wixon, denniswi@microsoft.com
Organizers: Dennis Wixon, Janice Rohn
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
Saturday & Sunday May 7-8th, 2013
Contact: Christine Robson, cmrobson@gmail.com
Organizers: Christine Robson, Sean Kandel, Jeffrey Heer, Jeffrey Pierce
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
Saturday & Sunday May 7-8th, 2015
Contact: Tuck Leong, tuckwah@gmail.com
Organizers: Tuck Leong, Lalya Gaye, Atau Tanaka, Robyn Taylor, Peter Wright
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
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Ian Li, ianli@cmu.edu
Organizers: Ian Li, Anind Dey, Jodi Forlizzi, Kristina Höök, Yevgeniy Medynskiy
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
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
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Jose A. Gallud, jgallud@umh.es
Organizers: Jose A. Gallud, Ricardo Tesoriero, Jean Vanderdonckt, MarÃŒa Lozano
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Uta Hinrichs, uhinrich@ucalgary.ca
Organizers: Uta Hinrichs, Nina Valkanova, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Giulio Jacucci, Sheelagh Carpendale, Ernesto Arroyo
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Oskar Juhlin, oskarj@tii.se
Organizers: Oskar Juhlin, Erika Reponen, Frank Bentley, David Kirk, MÂns Adler
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Airi Lampinen, airi.lampinen@hiit.fi
Organizers: Airi Lampinen, Fred Stutzman, Markus Bylund
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
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: Mika Nieminen, mika.nieminen@tkk.fi
Saturday May 7th, 2011
Contact: David England, d.england@ljmu.ac.uk.
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: James Pierce, jjpierce@cs.cmu.edu
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Dan Cosley, danco@cs.cornell.edu
Organizers: Dan Cosley, Maurice Mulvenna, Victoria Schwanda, S. Tejaswi Peesapati
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Antti Salovaara, antti.salovaara@hiit.fi
Organizers: Antti Salovaara, Kristina Höök, Keith Cheverst, Michael Twidale, Matthew Chalmers, Corina Sas
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Parisa Eslambolchilar, p.eslambolchilar@swansea.ac.uk
Organizers: Parisa Eslambolchilar, Max Wilson, Ian Oakley, Anind Dey
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Shaowen Bardzell, selu@indiana.edu
Organizers: Shaowen Bardzell, Elizabeth Churchill, Jeffrey Bardzell, Jodi Forlizzi, Rebecca Grinter, Deborah Tartar
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
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Amy Hurst, amyhurst@umbc.edu
Organizers: Amy Hurst, Krzysztof Gajos, Leah Findlater, Jacob Wobbrock, Andrew Sears, Shari Trewin
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Ben Kirman, bkirman@lincoln.ac.uk
Organizers: Ben Kirman, Staffan Björk, Sebastian Deterding, Janne Paavilainen, Valentina Rao
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Kiel Gilleade, gilleade@gmail.com
Organizers: Stephen Fairclough, Kiel Gilleade, Lennart Nacke, Regan Mandryk
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Alissa Antle, aantle@sfu.ca
Organizers: Alissa Antle, Paul Marshall, Elise van den Hoven
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Lone Koefoed Hansen, koefoed@hum.au.dk
Organizers: Lone Koefoed Hansen, Julie Rico, Giulio Jacucci, Stephen Brewster
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Rob Miller, rcm@mit.edu
Organizers: Michael Bernstein, Ed Chi, Lydia Chilton, Björn Hartmann, Aniket Kittur, Robert Miller
Sunday May 8th, 2011
Contact: Janet Vertesi, jvertesi@princeton.edu
Organizers: Janet Vertesi, Silvia Lindtner, Irina Shklovski
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Fractals in our world: "I'm a mathemetician and I'd like to stand on your roof": Ron Eglash on African Fractals
Interesting TED Talk:
Self-replication and recursive scaling patterns in African village architecture, discussed from the point-of-view of mathematician Ron Eglash:
Some of this architecture relies on complex algorithms. You can find out why some farmers in Africa make fractal fences. Self-organization is in our brains and networks, and also related to adverse medical conditions as well. The African Fractals website contains the pictures used in the TED presentation.
Here is Ron Eglash's bio, from the TED website:
"Ethno-mathematician" Ron Eglash is the author of African Fractals, a book that examines the fractal patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa. By looking at aerial-view photos -- and then following up with detailed research on the ground -- Eglash discovered that many African villages are purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with self-similar shapes repeated in the rooms of the house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village, in mathematically predictable patterns.
As he puts it: "When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet."
His other areas of study are equally fascinating, including research into African and Native American cybernetics, teaching kids math through culturally specific design tools (such as the Virtual Breakdancer applet, which explores rotation and sine functions), and race and ethnicity issues in science and technology. Eglash teaches in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and he recently co-edited the book Appropriating Technology, about how we reinvent consumer tech for our own uses.
RELATED
Learning and creating designs with African Fractals
Ron Eglash's Website
SOMEWHAT RELATED
Friday, December 11, 2009
Participatory Design Conference 2010 + Reflections about participatory design and usability...
Cross posted from Interactive Multimedia Technology:
I really want to go to Australia next year and attend this conference! Below are links to the conference, along with an excerpt from the conference description:
11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference: Participation :: The Challenge (pdf)
PDC2010 Conference Website
PDC2008 Conference Website
"Participation is the complex, contested, changing, creative and celebratory core of participatory design. We invite you to explore what participation can and needs to mean in the design contexts where we are working now and those we are likely to encounter soon. While current ‘best practice’ in many areas of interactive technology design now at least pays lip service to people’s participation, how is this participation being negotiated and defined, and by whom? And if Participatory Design methods developed some 20 years ago are claimed to have become standard design practice, how do we go about developing the methods that will define standard design practice 20 years from now?"
REFLECTION
Judging from what I've experienced as a consumer/user, there are many things that are floating around in the form of electronics, software, and related gadgets that are examples of the absence of participatory design.
My daily pet peeve is the remote control for my entertainment set-up, which includes DVR and a small but growing number of interactive TV channels. Another pet peeve is the usability of productivity software, including the software I must use for work.
At any rate, below are links to some of my thoughts related to usability topics that might be of interest to people who are thinking about or practicing participatory design or user-centered design.
2007 Letter to the Editor, Pervasive Computing
Useful Usability Studies (pdf)
2007 Blog Post
Usability/Interaction Hall of Shame (In a Hospital)
2008 Blog Posts
Interactive Touch-Screen Technology, Participatory Design, and "Getting It"
An Example of Convergence: Interactive TV: uxTV 2008
2009 Blog Posts
Microsoft: Are You Listening? Cool Cat Teacher (Vicki Davis) Tries out Microsoft's Multi-touch Surface Table
Haptic/Tactile Interface: Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons
The Convergence of TV, the Internet, and Interactivity: Update
UX of ITV: The User Experience and Interactive TV (or Let's Stamp Out Bad Remote Controls)
ElderGadget Blog: Useful Tech and Tools
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Mobile Art && Code Workshop, November 6-8, Carnegie Mellon University.
The following information is from the MOBILE ART CODE Ning social network.
Art & & Code is an event series and online community dedicated to the democratization of computer programming for artists, young people, and the rest of us.
This November 6-8, we continue our successful workshop/lecture series with MOBILE ART & & CODE: Mobile Media and Interactive Arts - a symposium on the aesthetic and tactical potentials of mobile, networked and locative media. The three-day event will feature intimate, practical, arts-oriented programming workshops for popular mobile platforms (such as the iPhone, Android, Nokia Smartphones, Arduino, SMS, and Asterisk PBX systems) along with an all-day series of free lecture presentations that contextualizes the use of these technologies in a variety of contemporary critical, artistic and design practices.
MOBILE ART && CODE is made possible by a generous grant from Microsoft Research, with oversight by the Center for Computational Thinking at CMU. The ART && CODE symposium series is a project of the CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, directed by Golan Levin. If you have questions or concerns about MOBILE ART && CODE, please email Golan Levin at golan@andrew.cmu.edu.
MOBILE ART && CODE is a symposium on the artistic and tactical potential of mobile, networked and locative media: November 6-8, 2009 at CMU!
Conference Schedule
6 Nov (Fri): Three-Hour Workshops, 9am-Noon and 2pm-5pm ($75/ea.)
7 Nov (Sat): Free All-Day Artist Presentations + Evening Performances
8 Nov (Sun): Three-Hour Workshops, 9am-Noon and 2pm-5pm ($75/ea.)
Workshop Schedule for MOBILE ART CODE:
| WORKSHOPS | Instructors | Friday 11/6 AM (9am-12) | Friday 11/6 PM (2-5pm) | Sunday 11/8 AM (9am-12) | Sunday 11/8 PM (2-5pm) |
| Introduction to Arduino | Gaye | $75 + 75m | $75 + 75m | ||
| Design Tech. for Mobiles | Bleecker | $75 | $75 | ||
| FlashLite on Mobiles | Kam et al. | $75 | $75 | ||
| iPhone + openFrmwks. | Akten & Gage | $75 | $75 | ||
| Interactive SMS | Evans | $75 | $75 | ||
| Python + Nokia | Scheible | $75 | $75 | ||
| Interactive Telephony | Van Every | $75 | $75 | ||
| Android + Arduino | Anderson & Marlinspike | $75 + $120m | $75 + $120m | ||
| Scrapyard Challenge! | Brucker-Cohen & Moriwaki | $75 + $50m. Note: 6 hours. | |||
| Master's Seminar | Behrendt, Paulos et al. | $75 | $75 | ||
| iPhone + Pure Data | Steiner | $75 | $75 | ||
| How to Make Ringtones | Foley | $25 | |||
Some of the workshops do not require any programming experience, and only two (iPhone + OpenFrameworks and Android + Arduino) recommend that participants have some programming experience.
Cross-posted on the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog.
