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A US hospital has set up a design lab. They’re designing new hospital interactive systems and evaluating present spaces. Nice example of the application of design in “new” areas.
Author: Kars Alfrink
Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.
links for 2006-04-14
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An extremely readable piece on adults that refuse to grow up. Contains photos by Ari Versluis.
Going to Reboot 8
Registration’s done. I’m going!
links for 2006-04-13
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Coates talks to old school media about “social media”. He’s not sure what the term means, but in his ever so eloquent way gives a nice overview of the phenomenon.
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A rather clueless piece by Newsweek on web 2.0. This is a good reminder of the fact that what makes sense to the average technologist is still far from mainstream thinking.
Een internet der dingen (open.info.nl)
“De web 2.0-hype een beetje beu? Moe van het bijhouden van alle start-ups die als paddestoelen uit de grond blijven schieten? Maak je borst maar nat, want er volgt spoedig (weer) iets nieuws. Niet web 3.0 (het web-OS), maar iets écht nieuws: het internet der dingen Parallel aan al het social software-geweld en de semantische web-discussies doen interactieve media al enige tijd moedige pogingen om de sprong van bits naar atomen te maken. Dit veld wordt gedomineerd door een wirwar aan termen, zoals: “tangible computing” (populair gemaakt door Nokia-researcher Chris Heathcote), “ubiquitous computing” (vaak afgekort tot het onooglijke “ubicomp”), “everyware” (een vrij nieuwe term) en lastpakken als “blogjects” en “spimes” (bedankt Bruce Sterling). Mijn voorkeur gaat uit naar “internet of things”, getuige de titel van deze post.”
links for 2006-04-07
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Some observations on where mobile gaming is headed. From a CES panel.
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Powazek lashes out at the term “user-generated content” and instead proposes the use of “authentic media”: “Authentic media is what happens when the mediators get out of the way and give the mic over to the people who actually have something to say.”
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Morville raves about the arrival of Everyware, a new book on ubicomp, the internet of things, etc. Sounds interesting, to buy.
links for 2006-04-06
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A review of Axure’s new prototyping tool. I tested it recently and was pleasantly surprised. The only thing it lacked? Basic drawing tools – why weren’t these included?
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Chris Heathcote reviews four S60 Flickr uploaders. A nice overview of the current state of the art and some cool new ways metadata is being gathered in the mobile realm.
This is what my del.icio.us bookmarks look like
Thanks to Kunal Anand. More over at Flickr.
Adding friends
Found this via Chris Heathcote’s blog.
Funny cartoon by a talented cartoonist who posts new ones regularly over at Flickr.
Perhaps it’ll work like this one day?
A definition of IA
information architecture, noun A vital component in the development of Web sites, used to round the budget up to the next hundred thousand dollars.