Yaskawa Electric Corporation will continue to transmitting “manufacturing spirit” inherited unbroken in this Corporation to the world at the juncture of its 100th anniversary. “YASKAWA BUSHIDO PROJECT” is the project representing Machii’s swordplay exactly the same by using “MOTOMAN-MH24”, he retains many world record like “Cutting BB Gun 6mm pellet” and his play is also said God’s miracle, while challenging to the performance limits of the industrial robot that integrate the “agility”, “accuracy”, “flexibility” to high-dimension.
Bret Victor’s closing keynote at the UIST and SPLASH conferences, October 2014.
Preface: worrydream.com/TheHumaneRepresentationOfThought/note.html
“10 overlapping LCD screens that can respond to the gestures of an accompanying tour guide to offer real-time snapshots of city information.”
Spark is a weekly radio show from CBC Radio (in Canada) about tech, trends and fresh ideas. The latest episode has a few pieces about haptics:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/281-vibrating-bikes-drawing-data-and-more-1.3012251
A fascinating take on how our brain processes information and how this might allow us to create sensory relationships to abstract yet relevant information. A quick reflection is Davids less ‘on or off’ approach and tonality of our being as a machine and how he relates to emotion in his talk.
TED Excerpt.
“As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,†says neuroscientist David Eagleman, “is constrained by our biology.†He wants to change that. His research into our brain processes has led him to create new interfaces — such as a sensory vest — to take in previously unseen information about the world around us.”
Nice thoughts around how “screens need to make room for our lives”
https://vimeo.com/117389218
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwH0WInFvf4
“In a collaboration with Volontaire, People People (a few UID alumni) has designed the first prototypes of Liberos Babybuzz. A pair of bracelets that help pregnant couples to better share the good experiences of carrying a child. The prototypes are huge and cumbersome since it is an early build, but they have served very well to show the fantastic first user reactions on the values that Babybuzz will give.”
http://www.peoplepeople.se/people-people-design-the-first-prototype-of-liberos-babybuzz/
A quite comprehensive article on texting as an interface mixed with A.I.
If you have any experiences with the Lark App it is one example. They are not neccesarily new but are now re-visited tied into greater/physical services and perhaps there are moments where we need an artificial friend more than another app?
Complete article at
http://whoo.ps/2015/02/23/futures-of-text
On that note. These two articles seem to relate to each other in some ways beyond what we presently see.
“Intelligentsia of AI will gather to come up with a battery of alternatives to the traditional Turing test”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmYc1MNJaQc
https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/25-year-anniversary.html
from the people who gave us the scuba car sQuba :
What do you think of this car, this presentation, this lifestyle?
Is this your future? Is it ours? Whose future is this?
(and why did they mount a watch on the steering column?)
Extra points if you manage to match components to all sponsors/participants.
Here at the Interaction Design program at the Umeå Institute of Design we value sketching as a tool for developing and communicating designs. We teach how to sketch in all sorts of forms and materials and it sometimes may seem we emphasize sketching and prototyping in hardware and code. However, any ideas around sketching are deeply rooted in its original form of drawings and visuals (I have posted on such sketching before).
Another great resource to expand your sketching skills and understanding is the latest book by Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur of sketching.nl : Sketching product design Presentation.
The book spans an introduction to our innate responses to visual stimuli, basics of gestalt theory, to a conclusion on visual rhetoric, using lots of examples and showcases from various design practices.
(full disclosure: Koos was my sketching/drawing teacher at Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft, and so was Roselien)
A joint venture with Cheap Monday.
Sewing Machine, Submarine or Factory?
https://www.teenageengineering.com/products
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAKfdeOX3-o
Interaction Design in less than 10 minutes, including an infomercial at the end. Some good old interfaces and flying toasters from the 90’s :-)