The source code for doing thisâ€â€taken for granted that you actually want to do thisâ€â€, is here: http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2008/11/linux-on-iphone.html
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Alternative for video tracking systems.
Interesting project about tracking sound for Computer Interaction. The project name is Taichi, developed in UK.
I see a big advantage in having the possibility of using a very durable and cheap surface to interact with. On the other hand, I would like to know how much sound do we have to produce on the surface in order to have an accurate tracking.
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Installation
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More videos and information in the webpage http://www.taichi.cf.ac.uk/
Not very new project though, 2005.
Stumbled across this Tellart video by acident featuring the graduating class of 2008.
The new updated document for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is now published by the W3C. This type of text is often a direct teleportation to sleep-land, but I feel it does contain interesting bits and pieces. A lot of it is kind of obvious and common sense for us pixel-pushers of the interaction world, but it’s nice to see it enumerated and detailed like this.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/
Here is a copy-paste executive summary:
WCAG 2.0 Guidelines
1 Perceivable
1.1 Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.
1.2 Provide alternatives for time-based media.
1.3 Create content that can be presented in different ways (for example simpler layout) without losing information or structure.
1.4 Make it easier for users to see and hear content including separating foreground from background.
2 Operable
2.1 Make all functionality available from a keyboard.
2.2 Provide users enough time to read and use content.
2.3 Do not design content in a way that is known to cause seizures.
2.4 Provide ways to help users navigate, find content, and determine where they are.
3 Understandable
3.1 Make text content readable and understandable.
3.2 Make Web pages appear and operate in predictable ways.
3.3 Help users avoid and correct mistakes.
4 Robust
4.1 Maximize compatibility with current and future user agents, including assistive technologies.
Wallpaper* Graduate Directory : “From artists to architects, photographers to foodies, fashion and graphic designers to perfumers, illustrators and travel gurus, here’s Wallpaper’s annual global graduate directory. This is our pick of the raw and the revolutionary who might just change your world forever”
revolutionary, global, change the world forever??? …I think that would be Interaction-Designers! But there are no Interaction Designers or User Experience Designers in this list. I think Wallpaper* is soooo yesterday.
via http://designmind.frogdesign.com/
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An interesting  project ( public domain ) about future of currency and value system… done in close collaboration with some nice people ( Bruce Sterling, Joshua Klein, Nicolas Nova… )
More info www.kashklash.com
I forgot to post this on the board in the studio. If you are flying home (or anywhere else) for the holiday break:
Could you save your boarding passes?
(bring them to me in January)
It can be a boarding pass stub like the image below, or any other format. The more, the better. I am doing my packaging project on air travel, and would like to have as many different examples as I can.
Muchas gracias! I’ll also send an email about this to try to catch everyone.
Happy holidays,
-Roberto
Both in public and in private, people have reacted to the masthead/logo of this blog (it reads interactiondesign.se on the top of this page). I like a bit of irony (and I like it even more when the irony isn’t obvious), but others may not. It’s a work in progress, yes?
In the spirit of democracy, it might be nice to see some alternatives, or – better yet – have several from which one is randomly shown each time you visit. This should be easy to do in WordPress.
If you want to give it a try, please submit. Maybe to me? Maybe to Camille? Or maybe to another human?
Fujiya and miyagi is a motion compilation made from traditional dice patterns, and somehow gets into storytelling. Pretty interesting watch.
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Roberto posted a link to an article about boredom in New York Times. I found an article in The Boston Globe, that is stating the same, but with more thought on the effects of boredom. IT IS VERY INTERESTING, EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT !!!1 (sorry for the all caps) [read both articles] {if you don’t, you are not bored enough}
As of friday I’m starting a strike on connection, that means no computer (except I need to check my emails for my degree project sponsor daily at 15.30, if someone really wants to sponsor anybody anymore), no reading (reading means you are doing something), but I will however consciously try to avoid advertisement, comparing things, basically act in the spur of the moment if that ever happens from my boredom. And keep pen + paper with me.
Start being bored, and let your imagination run free.
End communication.
Take a moment to enjoy this one!
Why is it that we are having an economical crisis? I have absolutely no idea, but Paddy Hirsch from publicradio.org does and manages to do a damn good explanation complete with drawings to us less gifted in understanding complex systems.
Watch all the videos here.
Sample video on “collateralized debt obligations”
via BoingBoing
This ffffound.com tool seems like a pretty cool way to keep collections of images and discover others. Too bad it is invitation only for now.
You can find gems like this:
