links for 2008-02-08

“Press­ing the but­ton makes the kodo move in the direc­tion it is fac­ing. If a Kodo is left stand­ing still for a short while, it will auto­mat­i­cal­ly rotate to a new direc­tion. This allows many play­ers to play simul­ta­ne­ous­ly on a sin­gle phone.”

Peter Bogaards links to a nice piece by Bux­ton about how he got start­ed in ‘HCI’.

“The 4 Fun Keys cre­ate games’ four most impor­tant emo­tions: 1. Hard Fun: Fiero — in the moment per­son­al tri­umph over adver­si­ty 2. Easy Fun: Curios­i­ty 3. Seri­ous Fun: Relax­ation and excite­ment 4. Peo­ple Fun: Amusement”

A guy gets his lap­top con­fis­cat­ed by Dan­ish police: ‘We traced the trans­ac­tion back to the wire­less net­work in this apart­ment.’ ‘But we have an open wire­less con­nec­tion. It’s unse­cured.’ ‘The inter­net does­n’t work that way.’ ‘What? Wait. What?’

“[A] new theme for [Word­press]: Pro­logue. Imag­ine it like a group Twitter.”

“How is life offline? Logout and do stuff in the real world for once. Tell us about it. Repeats on the first fri­day each month, or when­ev­er you feel like it.” Won­der­ful idea. I’ve been doing this for a while now every oth­er week­end or so.

1st in a 4‑part series of reviews by Saf­fer of a book I will have to read. The descrip­tions of how prac­ti­tion­ers frame prob­lems and their own prac­tice feel very famil­iar. I myself seem to be strug­gling with at least 2 frames: inter­ac­tion and game design.