Links for 2008-05-09

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• Thoughts on Nokia’s NFC developments · Touch
  Timo comments on the latest NFC enabled phone from Nokia. Good stuff on gestures, security, durability, affordance and other user experience aspects.
  (tags: nokia nfc mobile rfid interactiondesign IxD touch tangible)
• visual urban data slides (tecznotes)
  Migurski discusses the considerations that went into Oakland Crimespotting. Interesting bits on emerging patterns, and combining traditionally dense dataviz with permalinking of separate datapoints.
  (tags: dataviz datavisualizations infoviz informationvisualizations crime oakland stamen maps)
• Persuasive Games: Texture
  Bogost looks at the use of haptic feedback in games, noting that most of it is utilitarian, not aesthetic—Rez being a notable exception.
  (tags: texture touch tangible physical gaming games play rez feedback)
• Ian Bogost – A Response to Roger Travis
  Bogost responds to an Escapist article by Travis that asks if game studies are doing anything of value for gamers. The discussion in the comments of this post between both is perhaps the most insightful part of what is dangerously close to a flamewar.
  (tags: gamestudies gamedevelopment gamedesign gamers)

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