Stanford University, through its Open Classroom project, is offering numerous courses, like Intro to HCI, with full lectures and presentations available online. You can’t complain, it’s free high-quality education materials.
See the courses offered, and readers of this blog might be particularly interested in the Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction Design course.
[via Experientia]
Eyeo brings together the most creative coders, designers and artists working today, and shaping tomorrow – expect an amazing three days of talks, labs, demos & events fueled by the people and tools that are transforming digital culture.
converge to inspire.
The festival took place in late June (see initial post on this blog), and some of the presentations are now available online on Vimeo. Very inspiring work.
Ben Fry and Casey Reas, Processing 2.0 (Or, The Modern Prometheus), link to video
Aaron Koblin talks about some of the experiments, libraries and software he and his team at Google have been involved with over the last couple of years. link to video
Moritz Stefaner, Truth & Beauty, link to video
[via Sparkfun]
A recent video in English about Umeå University, with many familiar faces!!!
[via umu.se]
Wacom just announced Inkling, a pen digitizer thing to help bridge the physical and digital worlds.
Nice job Rahul :-) See all the talks of the conference.
A nice place to start playing with Xbee-Arduino stuff:
so far the cheapest I found:
http://dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/pcb_order
For the 800th anniversary of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, somebody decided to push the limits of video mapping and go all out. The results are just amazing. There is a making of video available. Maybe it’s time to give video mapping a try at UID. If you are interested, let me know and we’ll plan an evening session or something. There is a new OSX application called MadMapper that seems pretty interesting, and free to try out.
The Edge Factor is a online series that give an inside look at people using extreme technology to create the world we see all around us. The show replaces and even overwhelms the false perception that modern manufacturing is boring and outdated. Cinema-quality filmmaking tells the stories of people who are manufacturing products ranging from high performance mountain bike components to jet fighter parts. Each episode documents the manufacturing technology used to create those parts, as well as the professionals who use that technology every day.
A great watch if you like manufacturing processes and machining technologies.
via [Pinkbike.com]
It’s time to celebrate our achievements as interaction designers. It’s time for us demonstrate that the work we do is impactful, it’s everywhere and it is absolutely necessary in designing the best products, systems and services. IxDA is proud to have added the Interaction Awards as a new platform for us to celebrate our discipline, and reflect amazing work back out beyond our communities to the broader design and business communities.
Please enter the awards by September 22nd.
This is a few months old, but quite nice. Augment a skateboard ramp with interactive visuals based on sensors data from the riders. Below in the obligatory Making Of:
Check more great projects from ENESS, an art & design studio based in Melbourne, Australia.
I’m in Vancouver and I just missed SIGGRAPH 2011, snif snif. SIGGRAPH is short of Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, a long-standing conference of the best computer and interactive technology. It’s part trade show, technical conference and networking bonanza. Here are some videos presenting this year’s event. They are not the best video reports, but hey you just saved a trip across the world, and you can watch Cory Doctorow’s keynote, a great presentation on copyright. The Emerging Technologies section is often the more interesting part of the show.
The great folks at Smart Design recently opened their IxD blog to the world. It was previously used internally to collect inspiring projects and communicate some of their own works.
Have a look and subscribe to their RSS feed, the website contains valuable and interesting content. I really like the Dot Matrix Animator. Great stuff!!!
Shigeru Kobayashi (IAMAS, Gainer and Funnel) showed at Sketching in Hardware 2011 this great project realized by Jarashi Suki. The project started in 2009, so it is not exactly new, but I just love how simple and clever it is.
GHI Electronics just announced the very first .NET Gadgeteer hardware at Maker Fair in Detroit. The new kit is called FEZ Spider Starter Kit and leverages Microsoft .NET Micro Framework. The toolkit has been in the making for some years at Microsoft Research and I’m truly happy to see that Microsoft kept it as an open source project (read more at http://gadgeteer.codeplex.com). It’s great to see it available to everyone.
We’re proud to introduce the .NET Gadgeteer-compatible FEZ Spider to our family of .NET Micro Framework boards. FEZ Spider uses a modular design to allow complex configurations with little hardware knowledge. This allows you to experiment with confidence and bring your wildest ideas to life. There are many modules available including large displays, a button, camera, ethernet and USB to name a few.
Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer is an open-source toolkit for building small electronic devices using the .NET Micro Framework and Visual Studio/Visual C# Express. Gadgeteer combines the advantages of object-oriented programming, solderless assembly of electronics with a kit of peripherals, and support for quick form-factor construction using computer-aided design.
This toolkit is a perfect companion for Industrial Design and IxD projects, as all the parts and boards have corresponding CAD models. It makes it a breeze to build nice and clever enclosures, or retrofit/match with other hardware models. Is is Windows only, but C# is pretty accessible if you know programming already. The main board support decent screens (and up to 3 it seems) plus a plethora of advanced protocols and interfaces.
The FEZ Spider kit will be shipping at the end of September, so keep your eyes open for it in the Interaction Workshop later this Fall!