This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.
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if ( class.time >= 5 * week) {
Treating Skin Eczema Guide // finish project
project.activate();
project._visible = true;
// vernissage
onDisplay() = people + Math.round(wine, liters);
}
on(Complete) = function(){
for(i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
echo "Congratulations to the students for your outstanding work!";
}
Serial.println('/Camille');
}
Annika & Vitorio
Heewon
Stina & Fabricio
Haishu & Youle
Jannes & Rahul
Matt Cottam and Brian Hinch from Tellart conducted a very interesting workshop for this fourth week of the class. They introduced various new toolkits (Make controllers in particular) and software (Tellart’s own NADA) to the students. The workshop ended with a small exhibition on Friday (see photos below).
Huge thanks to Matt and Brian for the fabulous week.
Some 60 people participated in the half day (9:00-12:00) Workshop at Umeå Institute of Design devoted to the World Usability Day on Thursday November 8. Local IT industry representatives, design students and design researchers worked with concrete usability problems in the daily IT-life and how these problems could be solved in a smart way.
The purpose for the day was to promote usability and user centered
research and development. World Usability Day is a way to increase the awareness of the importance of designing products and services with a high degree of usability.
Particpating companies and organizations were:
Pado Metaware
Plakat
Apptoo
Teknikhuset
Umea University
Umea Institute of Design (UID)
Umea kommun
Check out more pictures from the event at UID (and other venues around the world) at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/worldusabilityday2007/
maybe we should install a picture gallery to our blog. would be cool to show some interesting pictures about the workshops. what do you think?
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How often haven’t I found myself looking away from the demanding blinking cursor on the word processor’s white page? Instead, my eyes have been gazing at the numerous colorful and more or less useful icons located in the toolboxes outside of the writing area. These visual explorations distract me too often from my actual task of plain writing.
Now, I’ve found the cure for my distress; it’s a small application called DARKROOM (PC) or WRITEROOM (Mac) and it’s a wonderful, simple and black experience for writers. You start out with a black full screen and you just start to write – no tools, no icons, just writing! And it’s free!
The PC version DARKROOM can be downloaded from http://they.misled.us/dark-room (Windows XP) and the Mac version WRITEROOM can be found at http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom (OS X 10.4 or later).
In the ceiling of the new part of Campus Library the artwork “Mirror Digital Clock” is hanging. It’s 2,5 x 9 meters and contains of 28 mirrors that are suspended in wires who are controlled by 28 motors. Every minute, mirriors are changing their position to show the current time. Check a movie at http://www.statenskonstrad.se/movies/albin_karlsson_320.html or go to the Campus library here in UmeÃ¥ and experience how time is flying…
The artist Albin Karlsson was born in 1972 and is living and working in Stockholm. http://www.albinkarlsson.com/. This permanent, site-specific contemporary work of art was comissioned by Statens konstrÃ¥d (The National Public Art Council Sweden) in 2007. http://www.statenskonstrad.se/index.php?code=1ÂÂ
The theme for the second week of the Experience Prototyping class was Low-Tech. How do you create and test an experience in a short time with limited resources, the quick and dirty way. Illusion, wizardry, make-belief, and other tricks are key techniques for creating experience on a shoestring. It’s amazing what a couple of creative minds can do in 4 hours with tables, clue, magnets and paper.
The Jedi BarAnnika, Jannes, Rahul and Stina
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The Intelligent Point of SaleFabricio, Haishu, Heewon, Youle
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The new trailer for Super Mario Galaxy is just out. The game play looks amazing: bee suit, crazy 3d worlds, etc. The Nintendo folks did a great job with this title. I hope we can get this title at UID for some late night Wii action!
Check the trailer (in Japanese) at http://www.gametrailers.com/player/26683.html
The second year students have been playing with Phidgets and Arduino all week. They are also the first living creatures to occupy the new Interaction Workshop. Here are some video clips of what they have done so far. The clips are raw/unedited for the moment. (Students, don’t hesitate to send me edited versions, I’ll post them here asap)
/Camille
Rahul
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Haishu
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Fabricio
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Annika
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Jannes
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Vitorio
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Stina
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Youle
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The idea came from observing how people actually view time e.g. if it were 11:57 a person would probably say “it’s nearly twelve”.
I just found this, a new smartphone from htc that has a set of interactions slightly similar to the one I proposed for my degree project
a diagonal slide gesture for navigation through different menus.
 http://www.htc.com/product/PRODUCTS_IMAGES/elf_141x228.jpg
http://www.htc.com/product/03-product_htctouch.htmÂÂ
Nice to see the idea working!
Is Industrial design also Interaction design?. Its a statement that sounds too provocative to be ignored. Jon Kolko a Professor of Interaction and Industrial Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design deals with the fuzziness of design boundaries, I haven’t put my hands on it yet, but already is on my wish list.
-Jorge
A CNET article showcasing projets from the Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Link to the article.