WIRED has a nice article presenting the new toy developped by Caleb Chung and his company Ugobe. Pleo is a robotic dinosaur creation designed to be “an artificial life-form”.
Here is the article URL: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/alive.html
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Mike Stott is the program leader at Umeå Institute of Design Interaction design´s master program.
But above all Mike is a great guy, a terrific human being and an inspiring figure for all of us, that´s why all of us at UID, and specially us at the Interaction Design programme wish Mike to be out of the workshop (he is being actualized to Mike 3.0) and running again on the streets as soon as possible…
Mike you still need to show us your pics!
It seems that interaction design is flying high, out there are a lot of new books on the topic that seem to be interesting material here some of them:
| Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology |
| The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind |
The new nintendo Wii uses a very particular input device, have a look at it:
I just found I nice article about the future of human computer interaction by Thomas Pederson
from the Department of Computing Science Umea University here is the link:
