Interaction Design Umeå

Banana piano!

Jules — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:01:29 +0000

Maybe the interaction workshop should back a couple of these kits? :)

We now have a Twitter account

jordi.parra — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:04:01 +0000

Some of you probably use Twitter, GReader and/or other apps and social networks to stay up to date with what’s going on out there. I talked to Camille last week and decided to create an IFTTT recipe that pushes every blog entry to a Twitter account: @umeaixd.

In case you haven’t heard of IFTTT (I see nobody mentioned them here in the blog), IFTTT is a super easy to setup trigger system that lets you setup actions based on “if THIS happens, then do THAT”.

So that’s basically it. This might be useful to those of you who use Twitter to stay in the loop.

Touché

Camille Moussette — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:49:07 +0000

Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects
Sato, M., Poupyrev, I, and Harrison, C. Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects. In Proceedings of CHI’12. 2012. ACM. Paper PDF

Inspiring work by Disney Research presented at CHI 2012. I’m not so sure about the various applications presented at the end. In a perfect world, yes, but everyday life is messier than this. It would be worrisome to know that I have to close the door a particular way, otherwise it would broadcast wrong signal/status.

http://www.disneyresearch.com/research/projects/hci_touche_drp.htm

Bike as a DJ interface

Camille Moussette — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:21:30 +0000

Cogoo, a japanese bike sharing service, recently outfitted a BMX bike with various sensors and electronics to transform it into a DJ controller. Street riding ability meets samples and beat-box.

And here is their bike sharing program video, with the associated smartphone App to lock/unlock the bike. Nicely illustrated !!!

What ____ might have looked like if it was created in the 1980s

Camille Moussette — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:15:55 +0000

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CHI 2012 Interactivity Research & Exploration

Camille Moussette — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:15:29 +0000

Here is a teaser of the Interactivity Research & Exploration demos and installations to be presented at CHI 2012 next week in Austin, Texas. Great stuff !!!

If you don’t know what CHI is about, you should!!! Here their official snippet:

The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on human-computer interaction. CHI 2012 focuses on the centrality of experience—from the models, theories and practical insights we need to understand and design for user experience to experiencing innovation through hands-on interactivity.

The Messy Art Of UX Sketching

Camille Moussette — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:07:58 +0000

Lynn is sending this article The Messy Art Of UX Sketching by Peiter Buick. Good tips and all. I like the line that reads “Copying And Pasting For The Real World”!

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/13/messy-art-ux-sketching/

How does Google search work?

Camille Moussette — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:38:00 +0000

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Wearable Computing

Camille Moussette — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:10:39 +0000

Interaction-Design.org is back again with a new chapter of its IxD Encyclopedia, and this time it is written by Steve Mann, the great Canadian at the origin of what we can now call wearable computing. Steve Mann, is not your average joe: he was broadcasting personal video before the internet was even built! He attended TEI last February in Kingston (Canada) and it was insightful to learn about his impressive research and work.

Be sure to check this new chapter at this exclusive link

Build new games dot com

Mikko — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:47:42 +0000

Microsoft has started this page for all you game enthusiasts to start creating you own HTML5 games. Articles, tutorials and insights coming up.

http://buildnewgames.com

Realizing Empathy (a step beyond human centered design)

Stoffel — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:35:01 +0000

A contagiously passionate project in design, led by Seung Chan Lim, former MAYA Design: Realizing Empathy
He frames the act of making as an inherently empathic act, and creativity, innovation and transformation as side effects. Made me think.

Below a talk of his at RISD in march 2012

Google Project Glass

Camille Moussette — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:42:17 +0000

Oh boy, here we go (again).

http://g.co/projectglass

See these for more AR glasses goodness:
BMW augmented reality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9KPJlA5yds
Nokia Mixed Reality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwvZWyLiBU
Samsung Future Life and Style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nKFW-lDNK8
Brother AiRScouter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rtxz1P2Ogw

Startups, this is how design works

Camille Moussette — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:04:35 +0000

Wells Riley, UI/UX designer, offers us a design primer for non-designers: Startups, this is how design works. How many times have you had to explain what is Design to a random dude in an elevator, your grandma or an old friend from high-school. It is not easy to be clear and concise.

While his definition of Interaction Design is pretty darn limited: interaction design helps humans experience or manipulate software or interface with screen-based hardware in order to achieve specific goals – checking email, withdrawing money from an ATM, or “Liking” a webpage, I like how design is globally depicted and exposed. And the link to “Hiring a designer: hunting the unicorn” is an interesting read too.

http://startupsthisishowdesignworks.com

Handmade: interactions with type

Stoffel — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:49:23 +0000

a very physical approach to a typeface, gestures from capital to under-case

see more on Tien-Min Liao’s behance portfolio

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Brett Victor: tools that enable people to understand and create

Stoffel — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:14:44 +0000

A talk by Brett Victor at CUSEC’12

What I saw in this talk was the power of interaction design to make great ideas accessible and to bring (inter-)actions from the abstract to the meaningful.
Bret discusses the importance for creators to see direct results of their actions when exploring ideas. Makes me think of sketching, tinkering prototyping. What are the tools that we use to do this in the digital, virtual realm, and what ‘directness’ do we have there?

Also have a look at the inspiring examples Brett shows on his website.