The previous week seamlessly flowed into this one when on saturday I sat down to finalize the deck of slides for Raum Schiff Erde. On sunday morning, I grabbed a train and five hours later I was in Stellwerk, the conference’s lovely venue. Kind, clever people, a nice relaxed and friendly atmosphere, interesting talks, all [...]
DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation Videos – G4tv.com I have mixed feelings about this talk. On the one hand, any effort to bring pervasive gaming to the mainstream is good news. On the other, I'm worried that people might think that game design is as simple as slapping a reward mechanism on anything. [...]
im.ve – Projects – GranulatSynthese "GranulatSynthese is an installation for the intuitive creation of ambient, meditative audio-visuals. It uses granulate distributed over a surface with projected visuals and generated sound." This and a few other nice research projects into embodied interactions were presented at Raum Schiff Erde by Steffi Beckhaus. (tags: tangible embodied expressive interactiondesign [...]
This Happened #5 — Brief Impressions at Alper.nl The ever-critical-but-fair Alper's take on last night's This happened – Utrecht. (tags: ThisHappened-Utrecht-0210 thishappened-utrecht-5 thishappened-utrecht AlperÇuğun reviews interactiondesign ixd) We Are Friction « technogoggles Some interesting ideas on how to push social software beyond the address book paradigm which I am getting sick of myself, too. (tags: [...]
The Ethical Dog: Scientific American "Canids … follow a strict code of conduct when they play, which teaches pups the rules of social engagement that allow their societies to succeed." Some interesting bits on animal play. (tags: Dogs Play Science Social Learning)
Laws of the Game: Before There Were Rules | Pitch Invasion “The following set of rules is to be regarded as a set of decisions on certain disputed points, than as containing all the Laws of the Game, which are too well known to render any explanation necessary to Rugbeians.” A wonderful post giving insight [...]
Is ChatRoulette the Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past? — New York Magazine (tags: Chat Video Webcams Play Youth Teens Web Internet)
Chatroulette’s Creator, 17, Introduces Himself – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com "It is like a game for me. I discover new things and solve interesting problems." Interesting remarks from the creator of ChatRoulette, who is 17 and from Russia. Not sure I'm brave enough to use the site, though. (tags: ChatRoulette Web Teens Youth Video Webcams [...]
Print on Demand « optional.is/required "A computer screen feels like work. You stare into a screen for 8 hours a day, constantly checking email, typing in a word processor or running numbers in a spreadsheet. The last think you feel like doing is going home, curling-up on the weekend with a nice cup of tea [...]
Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Design Fiction Chronicles: Robocop + Pre-Augmented Reality Augmented Reality "Which to my mind, right now, is a familiar protocol that sounds precisely like what not particularly clear-headed folks are doing with this *Augmented Reality mishegoss. They’re walking around with a *doorknob and trying to find some cool houses [...]
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