Articles
Ad Hoc Information Spaces Feb 4,2004
Ad Hoc Information Spaces - Redström, Holmquist, Dahlberg and Ljungstrand on networks formed temporarily by networked mobile devices.
AmbientROOM Feb 4,2004
AmbientROOM, Hiroshi Ishii's CHI98 paper on an ambient technology project at the Tangible Media group, MIT...
Bill Buxton Articles Feb 4,2004
Less Is More (More or Less): Speculations about the Design of Computers - Bill Buxton's essay on the weaknesses of general-purpose computers, and why application-specific, networked appliances are a better idea. See also Bill Buxton's site, where all of his writings can be found.
BodyNet Jun 24,2004
This IBM research article describes using the human body as a transmission element in a data network (very personal area networking), and seems to pre-date this Microsoft patent by at least four years.... Olin Shivers' 1993 presentation on bodyNets is the earliest I've found so far.
Computer Vision for Artists and Designers Jan 26,2006
Golan Levin gives a nice introduction to computer vision in this essay, including a little history of the use of CV in art, and examples of some of the tools and problems involved. For anyone beginning to look into computer vision from a non-engineering perspective, Computer Vision for Artists and Designers: Pedagogic Tools and Techniques for Novice Programmers is a good place to start.
Designing for Homo Ludens Feb 4,2004
Gaver suggests that as computing is moving away from the places we work to the places we play, relax, etc., that interactive systems need to become less "task-oriented" tools, and more playful, looser tools. In short, that just as life includes work and play, so should the tools which we use in living it.
Everything I Know Oct 13,2005
Everything comes from Rory Hamilton, who taught at the Royal College of Art's interaction design program. It's a collection of his notes on topics from applying to design school to setting a good project brief to what interaction design is.
Graspable User Interfaces Feb 4,2004
Graspable User Interfaces - George Fitzmaurice's Ph.D Thesis. Explores the idea of multiple physical objects as handles for elements in a computing environment, as opposed to a single physical object (the mouse).
HP Cooltown Research Papers Feb 5,2004
Hewlett-Packard's Cooltown research into architecture and interactive exhibit design.
Resonances and Everyday Life: Ubiquitous Computing and the City Feb 4,2004
Resonances and Everyday Life: Ubiquitous Computing and the City , Anne Galloway - An attempt to bridge cultural studies, urban studies, and ubiquitous computing.
Sketching 06 Jul 6,2006
Hosted by Mike Kuniavsky at the Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan in June 2006, it was a meeting of a handful of microcontroller module developers, teachers, and hardware designers. There was much conversation about what makes good microcontroller hardware, how best to teach it, and what we can do to make some of the various platforms out there more interoperable.
Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms Feb 4,2004
Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms - Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer's paper explaining the ideas behing the Tangible Media group at MIT.
The Coming Age of Calm Technology Feb 4,2004
The Coming Age of Calm Technology - Marc Weiser and John seely Brown on ambient technology...
Touch Screen Technologies Feb 5,2004
A decent white paper on the basics of touch screen technologies. Thanks to Sasha Harris-Cronin for the link.
Using Digital but Physical Surrogates to Mediate Awareness, Communication and Privacy in Media Spaces Feb 4,2004
Using Digital but Physical Surrogates to Mediate Awareness, Communication and Privacy in Media Spaces - Greenberg and Kuzuoka on using physical devices to indicate a user's working state, availability to remote communication, etc....
Visitor Awareness in the Web Feb 4,2004
Visitor Awareness in the Web - Schmidt and Gellersen on using physical devices as information displays for web traffic...
Wired/Unwired: The Urban Geography of Digital Networks May 30,2004
Anthony Townsend's dissertation on urban geography and digital networks.