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• Matt Webb presentation at UX Week 2009 (video)

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  Matt Webb of Berg was one of the speakers at UX Week 2009 , a conference in San Francisco organised by Adapative Path. In his presentation “Design Is In Your Hands,” Matt talked about developing products and learning from mistakes, and shared the lessons that his company grappled with during the design and ...
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• Toward the Sentient City: The Future of the Outernet and How to Imagine it?

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 485
  Amphibious Architecture – “submerges ubiquitous computing into the water—that 90% of the Earth’s inhabitable volume that envelops New York City but remains under-explored and under-engaged.” Toward the Sentient City , brought “architects and urban designers into a conversation that until now has ...
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• iPhone with One Hand Comes Naturally

  
  A Fool's Wisdom — Authority: 106
  Jason Kottke’s recent article “ One-handed computing with the iPhone ” (published yesterday, Oct 29th, 2009) begins: “The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone [ 1 ] is not one of its obvious selling points but is one of those little features that grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable. A ...
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• The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010)

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 133
  We have now finished a first preliminary Call for Papers for the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (U-Media 2010) in Jinhua, China. It is my pleasure to be one of the programme chairs. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010)
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• What happens when good robots go ‘bad’?

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Household robots could be a means for spying, vandalism  and psychological attacks, according to read more
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• Pictures from an Exhibition

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 503
  The White House has released a Flickr set called the " First 100 Days " that presents a carefully selected digital album of images. Of course, some of them borrow from the visual language of the Kennedy years, but what is also striking about the collection is how many show Obama on the telephone, a traditional ...
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• Destroy the Rat

  
  With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. — Authority: 106
  Thanks to Christophe-Marie, who sent me a link of a very interesting video of a UI concept where the mouse is no longer relevant. Instead, multi-finger touch is used, with quite natural gestures. Here’s the 10/GUI video by C. Miller. Why do I like it? Basically, I agree with Mr. Miller’s points and ...
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• The Fuzzy Boundary: Four products that are also services

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM was invited to speak at Kimiko Ryokai’s Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces class at UC Berkeley yesterday, where he discussed the relationship between products and services in a ubicomp environment, and presented a set of examples of device/service relationships that show ...
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• Too Many Gizmos

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 503
  In " The Digital Fog of War ," military blogger for the New York Times Captain Tim Hsia Instead of something akin to a smartphone, soldiers lug around several disparate pieces of equipment: GPS devices, iris and fingerprint scanners, charts for calculating collateral damage estimates related to artillery or ...
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• Stage Five Clinger

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 503
  For the past two years, New York magazine has been publishing online sex diaries that also highlight the role that ubiquitous communication technologies are playing in urban casual sex practices. As the magazine points out, there is even an iPhone app for gay men to help them find a geographically convenient ...
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• Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at Visualizar, Madrid

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  On Friday 13 (!) November, Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be one of the speakers at Visualizar’09 , an international seminar on public data visualisation, organised by Medialab-Prado in Madrid, Spain. The conference and workshop will be led by Ben Cerveny of Stamen, San Francisco. ...
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• Augmented Reality is overblown

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  Chris Dannen writes in Fast Company that Augmented Reality is overblown, and doesn’t expect apps like Layar to drastically change the way we live our everyday lives. “Talk to the people doing AR research, and they seem to think that the awkwardness of using AR — holding your phone up in front of you; holding ...
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• Collaboration at heart of future ICT, says SCRI

  
  Extranet Evolution — Authority: 417
  (This is a slightly amended version of a post from my pwcom2.0 blog .) This morning I discovered a SCRI Research Report, Future Generation of IT (PDF), published in June and reporting on discussions held at a vision planning workshop hosted at Salford University back in January (2009). The aim of the event ...
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• Migropolis: Venice /Atlas of a Global Situation

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  In winter 2006, under the aegis of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from theIUAV University in Venice (including Experientia collaborator Miguel Cabanzo ) fanned out to subject the city of Venice, Italy to a process of forensic structural mapping. Out of this field work, conducted in the ...
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• A Synchronicity, a book by Julian Bleecker and Nicholas Nova

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing by Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova Available as a print-on-demand book from lulu.com. Click here to order. Available as a free download here . The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the ...
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• Memory and forgetting in the digital age

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  Yadin Dudai writes in the New Scientist on two books on memory and forgetting in the digital age — Total Recall: How the e-memory revolution will change everything by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, and Delete: The virtue of forgetting in the digital age by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger — and concludes: “For the human ...
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• No Silver Lining

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 503
  For those who worry about the potential vulnerabilities of cloud-computing technologies, this story from Information Week, " Cloud Goes Boom, T-Mo Sidekick Users Lose All Data ," presents a sobering narrative of lost data that would normally be accessible by ubiquitous computing devices.
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• ISMAR 2009: An Augmented Reality “Top Chef” Coopetition

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 485
  ISMAR 2009 -  was an extraordinary mix of  high geek, academic eminence, gungho Dutch Cowboy entrepreneurial spirit, German engineering and industry, brilliant artistry and invention, all fueled by a sense, and a very active presence in the case of Diamond Sponsor – Qualcomm, that the big technology players are ...
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• Sometimes, Reality Just Isn’t Real Enough

  
  Geek Life — Authority: 413
  One of the most fascinating aspects of evolving mobile platforms like Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android is their  promise of ubiquitous computing.Now there’s a scary phrase: ubiquitous computing. What does it mean?First, ubiquitous = omnipresent. Like, everywhere. As in, tripping over it all over the ...
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• Watch David Merrill’s “Natural Interactions with Digital Content” Seminar on People, Computers, and Design at Stanford University

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 127
  The graphical user interface has become the de facto metaphor for most of our diverse activities using computers, yet the desktop environment provides a one size fits all interaction. Tangible and ubiquitous computing research, along with recent consumer products such as the Wii and the iPhone, suggest an ...
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