August 2010
50 posts
Glitch →
…involves very little war, moats, spaceships, wizards, mafiosos, or tapestries. Also: we have egg plants. Egg plants make it very different.
A (very) short history of ambiguity →
Short and snappy ideas on ambiguity, slides by Jeremy Yuille
Ahead. →
Hmm, an alternative to powerpoint and keynote, - maybe not, really, but interesting take on the whole zooming presentation thing, Prezi and all that jazz…
Nailing it down... →
Specifying experience design so it can be built - a presentation from UX Australia, 2010
PaulStretch — New Build For the New Decade… | →
The Paul Stretch - now for Mac!!!
CS PhD HCI Qualifying Exam →
This is what Professor Winograd wants you to know if you plan to do a PhD at Stanford. Solid, foundational reading list. A bit…conservative, but definately solid!
Flickr and Democratic Indexing: dialogic... →
The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to examine three models of subject indexing (i.e. expert-led indexing, author-generated indexing, and user-orientated indexing); and to compare and contrast two…
Designing for a Dialogic View of Interpretation in... →
To search for ways of better communicating the intended meanings to culturally diverse users, this paper uses Bakhtin’s concept of dialogicality and its application to examine how interpretation…
Red Eye - Abstract City Blog →
Fun comix documenting the red eye flight, NY-Berlin…
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies - Google... →
Comprehensive handbook for both mainstream and left field tourism studies
Screencasting Software - ScreenFlow Overview -... →
With ScreenFlow screencasting software, you can capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer’s audio. Sophisticated editing tools allow…
Japan, Checking on Its Oldest, Finds Many Gone -... →
TOKYO — Japan has long boasted of having many of the world’s oldest people — testament, many here say, to a society with a superior diet and a commitment to its elderly that is unrivaled in the West….
Shirky: Situated Software →
We’ve always had a tension between enterprise design practices and a “small pieces, loosely joined” way of making software, to use David Weinberger’s felicitous phrase. The advantages to the latter…
YouTube - Quick Intro to SoundPrism →
An intro to Audanika SoundPrism with an explanation of the interface and the main concepts of it.
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Twelve South →
Mac friendly stuff…
Eye-trackers vs. Ouija Boards? →
Eye-tracker: $15,000+. Ouiji Board: $22.99. Tarot cards: $19.99. Tea leaves: $0.49. Solid inferences from well-collected data: Pricesless.
http://arkwhat.com/ →
The ARKHIPPO is all about big, thick, and cushiony, which is a refreshing departure from the latest design trend of smallness and thinness..
Video Analysis for Experience Design: The Video... →
Digital ethnography is an increasingly feasible research technique as smartphones decrease in cost and more people carry them around. The photographic capability of smartphones is an important…
Center for Turisme, Innovation og Kultur →