Posts Tagged ‘tangible’

Play in Social and Tangible Interactions

In Talks on 8 May 2009 tagged adaptation, embodied, game design, improvisation, interaction design, meaning, play, social, tangible with 2 comments

Now that the IxDA has posted a video of my presentation at Interaction 09 to Vimeo, I thought it would be a good idea to provide a little background to the talk. I had already posted the slides to SlideShare, so a full write-up doesn’t seem necessary. To provide a little context though, I will [...]

Reboot 10 Slides and Video

In Talks on 11 September 2008 tagged architecture, arguments, cities, conferences, culture, events, game design, GD, interaction design, IxD, mobile, play, politics, presentations, procedural rhetoric, reboot 10, slides, social, tangible, urbanism, videos with Comments Off

I am breaking radio-silence for a bit to let you know the slides and video for my Reboot 10 presentation are now available online, in case you’re interested. I presented this talk before at The Web and Beyond, but this time I had a lot more time, and I presented in English. I therefore think [...]

A Day of Playing Around With Multi-Touch and RoomWare

In Articles on 8 August 2008 tagged CanTouch, embodied, Flickr, interaction design, IxD, Last.fm, multi-touch, open source, RoomWare, tangible, user experience, UX, workshops with 4 comments

Last Saturday I attended a RoomWare workshop. The people of CanTouch were there too, and brought one of their prototype multi-touch tables. The aim for the day was to come up with applications of RoomWare (open source software that can sense presence of people in spaces) and multi-touch. I attended primarily because it was a [...]

Embodied Interaction and Improvised Information Displays

In Articles on 30 July 2008 tagged adaptation, embodied interaction, hacking, hospitals, improvisation, information displays, interaction design, IxD, meaning, social, tangible with 3 comments

Recently a good friend of mine became a dad. It made me feel really old, but it also lead to an encounter with an improvised information display, which I’d like to tell you about, because it illustrates some of the things I have learnt from reading Paul Dourish’s Where the Action Is. My friend’s son [...]

Storyboarding Multi-Touch Interactions

In Articles on 19 December 2007 tagged comics, computing, drawing, gated communities, gestural, interaction design, interfaces, InUse, IxD, multi-touch, pervasive, physical, physical computing, portfolio, sketching, social, social capital, storyboarding, tangible, ubiquitous, work with 5 comments

I think it was around half a year ago that I wrote “UX designers should get into everyware”. Back then I did not expect to be part of a ubicomp project anytime soon. But here I am now, writing about work I did in the area of multi-touch interfaces. Background The people at InUse (Sweden’s [...]

Tangible — First of Five IA Summit 2007 Themes

In Articles on 20 April 2007 tagged architecture, conferences, Frog Design, IA, IA Summit 2007, industrial design, information architecture, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Michele Tepper, physical, REX, tangible, themes with 5 comments

I’ll be posting a top 5 of the themes I noticed during the past 2007 IA Summit in Las Vegas. It’s a little late maybe, but hopefully still offers some value. Here are the 5 themes. My thoughts on the first one (tangible) are below the list: Tangible (this post) Social Web of data Strategy [...]

UX Designers Should Get Into Everyware

In Articles on 5 April 2007 tagged Adam Greenfield, ambient, books, design, everyware, IA, information architecture, interaction design, IxD, pervasive, physical computing, quotes, tangible, ubicomp, ubiquitous, user experience, UX with 7 comments

I’ve been reading Adam Greenfield’s Everyware on and off and one of the things that it has me wondering the most lately is: are UX professionals making the move to design for ubiquitous computing? There’re several places in the book where he explicitly mentions UX in relation to everyware. Let’s have a look at the [...]

Albert Heijn RFID Epiphany

In Articles on 20 March 2007 tagged Albert Heijn, everyware, future, physical, RFID, shopping, tangible, ubicomp with 8 comments

I was standing in line at the local Albert Heijn1 the other day and had a futurist’s ‘epiphany’. I had three items in my basket. The couple in front of me had a shopping cart full of stuff. I had an empty stomach and was tired from a long day’s work. They were taking their [...]