https://vimeo.com/96699192
Connecting Series, short films exploring trends in interaction and experience design
Released in May 2014: Why do we make? Connecting: Makers examines how the connected world is changing the nature of creativity. When everyone is a maker, new possibilities emerge, but with them come new responsibilities about digital transparency, cultural awareness, and the role of the designer.
Draco: Bringing Life to Illustrations with Kinetic Textures, from Autodesk Research.
Rubaiat Habib, Fanny Chevalier, Tovi Grossman, Shengdong Zhao & George Fitzmaurice. (2014).
Draco: Bringing Life to Illustrations with Kinetic Textures
CHI 2014 Conference Proceedings:
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Autodesk Research
http://www.autodeskresearch.com
I saw this a couple of years ago. Quite a nice example of hacking our senses. It would be interesting to explore what it would be like to link electronic sensors to senses in live situations or pre-emptive/guiding systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0E9llkZIU
Very interesting deep consumer health tracking with CUE. This quantified IoT device tracks: fertility / testosterone, inflammation, vitamin D, and influenza.
Official Website:
https://cue.me
Oplab, a neat new prototyping platform geared towards music making, from the amazing swedish people of Teenage Engineering.
The Oplab musical experiment board allows you to interconnect virtually any electronic musical instruments and music software. No more hassle with one box for MIDI and another for CV or a third for USB. Just connect your cables, set the appropriate scenario and experience a perfect sync. Oplab has it all in one place.
“You wouldn’t accept lag offline, so why do it online? ume.net, a fiber broadband provider that offers up to 1000 Mbit/s, performed an experiment. Four volunteers got to experience internet’s biggest disturbance in real life – lag.”
Ever wondered what the (social media) world is listening to right now?
streamWatcher started out as a research project scrobbling posts of people concerning the music they listen to. Turns out they can predict what the charts will show in a few weeks time. Just a tiny example of the uses of BigData analysis. But also its own downfall?!
How can we avoid or counter echo-chamber effects. How does this site affect what people listen to? What do the pattern-recognition algorithms do to how we see the world? Who writes them?
What tab grabs your interest? NOW, HOT! or Unexpected? What tab would you add?
Pyro Board: 2D Rubens’ Tube!
Nice hardware sketching supporting the concept and development of this project.
Description from from the Vimeo page:
Gravity is a tool for creatives to quickly sketch their ideas in 3D space using immersive augmented reality.
A pen and a pad specifically designed for sketching in the augmented environment. Free from any screen or computer, Gravity allows you to focus on what really matters, developing your ideas in an intuitive way.
As you start to draw, objects will take shape in front of you. Through the landing pad controls, you can adjust the plane in which you sketch, giving volume to your creation. With augmented reality glasses, Gravity reinvents how you and your collaborators visualize and contribute to each other’s ideas.
The project started with a strong belief: the tools that are commonly used for drawing, designing and making things in 3D limit people’s ability to bring their ideas to reality. Through numerous prototypes, tests and iterations, we created Gravity as a simple and engaging tool that will shape a new wave of 3D creation.
More at http://gravitysketch.com and on the Core77 article.
[via core77.com]
Just in time for Arduino Day 2014 we hooked an Etch A Sketch to a laser cutter using an Arduino Pro Mini for endless hours of silly fun. Come find out more about the project as JustAddSharks.co.uk or come and see it for yourself at one of this years UK Maker Faires. (from Youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27uCL90s20o
Rolls-Royce created this concept under FIMECC (Finnish Metals and Engineering Competence Cluster) user experience and usability program, UXUS. This future bridge operation concept for tugs is envisioned together with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto University of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2012-2013.
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