Making real physical soft toys from children’s drawings.
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Very cool. Making real physical soft toys from children’s drawings.
KMD innovator’s seminar – Daito Manabe
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My KMD innovator’s seminar. Very special guest – amazing and cool media artist Daito Manabe will give an talk about his amazing works. I hope the students can pick up how to be so creative. He is a technologist who has the ability to create radical new interfaces with humans and computers.
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Who to work for to be a Growth Hacker
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Who to work for to be a Growth Hacker
How do I learn to be a growth hacker? Work for one of these guys 🙂 | Andrew Chen (@andrewchen)
- NameBackgroundTwitter
- Noah KaganAppSumo, Mint, Facebooknoahkagan
- David KingBlip.me, ex-Lil Green Patchdeekay
- Mike GreenfieldCircle of Moms, ex LinkedInmike_greenfield
- Ivan KiriginDropbox, ex-Facebookikirigin
- Michael Birchex-Bebo, BirthdayAlarmmickbirch
- Ivko Maksimovicex-Chainn/Compare Peopleivko
- Dave Zohrobex-Hot or Not, MegaTastydzohrob
- Jia Shenex-RockYoumetatek
- James Currierex-Ticklejamescurrier
- Stan Chudnovskyex-Ticklestan_chudnovsky
- Siqi Chenex-Zyngablader
- Ed BakerFacebookesbaker
- Joe GreensteinFlixsterjoseph77b
- Yee LeeGoogleyeeguy
- Jamie QuintLookcraft, ex-Swipelyjamiequint
- Elliot ShmuklerLinkedIneshmu
- Aatif AwanLinkedInaatif_awan
- Andy JohnsQuora, Twitter, Facebookibringtraffic
- Robert Cezar MateiQuora, ex-Zyngarmatei
- Nabeel HyattSpark, ex-Zynganabeel
- Paul McKellarSV Angel, ex-Squarepm
- Greg TsengTaggedgregtseng
- Othman LarakiTwitterothman
- Akash GargTwitter, ex-Hi5akashgarg
- Jonathan KatzmanYahoo, ex-Xoopitjkatzman
- Gustaf AlstromerVoxergustaf
- Jon TienZyngajontien
Keynote talk at ARE2012 – Augmented Reality Event 2012
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Keynote talk at ARE2012 – Augmented Reality Event 2012. Adrian David Cheok. “Augmented Reality for All Senses”. Santa Clara.
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Huggy Pajama paper awarded “Honorable Mention” at CHI 2012 Conference
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Huggy Pajama paper awarded “Honorable Mention” at CHI 2012 Conference.
Paper title: Keep in Touch: Channel, Expectation and Experience – Paper
Rongrong Wang – Virginia Tech, USA
Francis Quek – Center for Human Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech, USA
Deborah Tatar – Center for Human Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States, USA
Keng Soon Teh – National University of Singapore, Singapore
Adrian David Cheok – Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Japan
Contribution & Benefit: Describes a remote touch study, showing communicative touch accompanied by speech can significantly influence people’s sense of connectedness. Identifies perception of communication intention as an important factor in touch communication design.
Augmented Reality Event – Sneak Preview of ARE 2012 Schedule: Chock-Full of Augmented Reality Goodness…for The People
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ARE 2012, the world’s largest augmented reality event, invites you – The People – to discover the wonders of augmented reality (AR). Register today with the Early Bird Discount and save $100 before it expires on March 21st.
For the first time, ARE 2012 is reaching out beyond the tech world – to everybody out there – who is seeking to leverage AR to advance their business or their life.
The event will kick off with keynotes by Frank Cooper (CMO of Pepsi), and Miles Ludwig (VP Digital at Sesame) – that will showcase how mainstream corporations are using AR as a key tool to drive customer engagement in consumer packaged goods, as well as education and entertainment.
Adrian Cheok (Professor at Keio University, Tokyo) keynote will blow your minds by demonstrating how AR can go beyond the visual sense and leverage all our senses.
Can’t have a true AR event without “The Prophet of AR”; Bruce Sterling will come back this year to share his insights about the evolution of the AR industry, and have a fireside chat with special guest Daniel Suarez (best selling author of techno-thrillers Damon and Freedom) – about the far reaching opportunities with AR, and its looming dangers.
In addition to these fantastic keynotes, ARE 2012 will feature 30 hours of sessions across 3 tracks: Business, Production, and Technology – covering topics such as:
The AR Market and successful business models with Maarten Lens-FitzGerald (Layar) – on how to generate revenue with Augmented Reality, and Matthew Szymczyk (Zugara) – about where we are in the AR Commerce Hype Cycle.
AR for Marketing and Branding– a panel moderated by Gene Becker showcasing best practices from leaders who implemented some of the most successful AR campaigns to date.
AR for eCommerce and Retail – including talks by Bruno Uzzan (CEO, Total Immersion) and Andrea Carignano (CEO, seac02) about real revenue-making products in this market.
AR For Wellness with Adam Odessky (HelloDocPal) about current use of AR for healthcare, and HealthCare Alert – an app tracking health alerts in real time with augmented reality.
AR Games as always will be a big draw featuring speakers from the most successful AR games companies: Brian Selzer (Ogmento), Josh Shabtai(Vertigore), and more.
AR and Crime – A riveting new session moderated by AR enthusiast and Law Enforcement officer Joseph Rampolla who put together a staggering panel: Kevin Manson (Cybercop Portal), Edward Roche (Barraclough), Best selling author Daniel Suarez (Daemon), and Brian Wassom(Augmented Legality.)
AR For Cars – a session dedicated to the automotive industry led by Juliana Clegg from MVS California creator of the CableGuide HUD with participation from major car companies, and analysts in this space.
User Experiences in AR with one of the world’s top experts in AR user interfaces – Mark Billinghurst (HIT Labs NZ), and additional world experts in UX for AR.
As in every year, the leading players in AR Eyewear will be back to excite us about the prospects of AR in your field of view, and update us on how long we need to wait for it and what we can do to accelerate it.
For the techies, a hole track of sessions will drill into the state of the art in AR Technologies.
Mobile AR Technologies with Marc Gardeya (Dekko) which will talk about Hybrid Tracking, David Murphy (Nokia) – about Nokia’s Mirror world browser, Ben Blachnitzsky (Metaio) – about Object Tracking, Martin Lechner (Wikitude) about SDK for AR browsers, and Hafez Rouzati (Georgia Tech) about their standard-based Argon browser.
Christine Perey (Perey Consulting) will lead a panel discussing Interoperability and Open AR Content and experiences.
Dr. Thomas Alt, founder and CEO of metaio will discuss the process of building a delivery stack that ensures reliable, accessible AR from chipset platform to end-user.
And speaking of hardware for AR, Stephane Gervais-Ducouret (Freescale) will speak about efficient hardware for AR, Mike Housholder (InvenSense) about motion interface for immersive mobile AR experiences, and Neil Trevett (VP at Nvidia and President of the Khronos Group) about emerging hardware for AR.
Steven Feiner, Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, will share his experience in implementing AR for more than 20 years. If you go by Churchill’s old quote: “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see”, Professor Feiner is the most qualified to speak about the future of AR.
ARE will also feature a bunch of thought provoking talks about AR Game changers such as Amber Case (Geoloqi) and Brian Mullins‘ (CEO, Daqri): AR at the Center of the New Polis: Sociopolitical Impact & Opportunities.
This was just a sneak preview. Stay tuned for many more speakers and fascinating sessions about how to turn around your business – with Augmented Reality.
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Adam Yauch • 1964-2012
It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam “MCA” Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer. He was 47 years old. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Yauch taught himself to play bass in high school, forming a band for his 17th birthday party that would later become known the world over as Beastie Boys. With fellow members Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Adrock” Horovitz, Beastie Boys would go on to sell over 40 million records, release four #1 albums–including the first hip hop album ever to top the Billboard 200, the band’s 1986 debut full length, Licensed To Ill–win three Grammys, and the MTV Video Vanguard Lifetime Achievement award. Last month Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, with Diamond and Horovitz reading an acceptance speech on behalf of Yauch, who was unable to attend. In addition to his hand in creating such historic Beastie Boys albums as Paul’s Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty and more, Yauch was a founder of the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness and activism regarding the injustices perpetrated on native Tibetans by Chinese occupational government and military forces. In 1996, Milarepa produced the first Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, which was attended by 100,000 people, making it the biggest benefit concert on U.S. soil since 1985’s Live Aid. The Tibetan Freedom Concert series would continue to stage some of the most significant benefit shows in the world for nearly a decade following in New York City, Washington DC, Tokyo, Sydney, Amsterdam, Taipei and other cities. In the wake of September 11, 2001, Milarepa organized New Yorkers Against Violence, a benefit headlined by Beastie Boys at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, with net proceeds disbursed to the New York Women’s Foundation Disaster Relief Fund and the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA) September 11th Fund for New Americans–each chosen for their efforts on behalf of 9/11 victims least likely to receive help from other sources. Under the alias of Nathanial Hörnblowér, Yauch directed iconic Beastie Boys videos including “So Whatcha Want,” “Intergalactic,” “Body Movin” and “Ch-Check It Out.” Under his own name, Yauch directed last year’s Fight For Your Right Revisited, an extended video for “Make Some Noise” from Beastie Boys’ Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, starring Elijah Wood, Danny McBride and Seth Rogen as the 1986 Beastie Boys, making their way through a half hour of cameo-studded misadventures before squaring off against Jack Black, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as Beastie Boys of the future. Yauch’s passion and talent for filmmaking led to his founding of Oscilloscope Laboratories, which in 2008 released his directorial film debut, the basketball documentary Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot and has since become a major force in independent video distribution, amassing a catalogue of such acclaimed titles as Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy, Oren Moverman’s The Messenger, Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop, Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze’s Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak, and many more. Yauch is survived by his wife Dechen and his daughter Tenzin Losel, as well as his parents Frances and Noel Yauch.
CREATIVE LEAP media workshop for children in Botswana
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Our research mission is to empower children and youths in developing countries and communities with creative thinking and new media technologies. We aim to nurture and inspire young children to create new value propositions that will benefit their individual selves, communities and countries.
We want to view young children in developing countries as creative innovators and ambassadors of new technologies, rather than passive end-users consumers. We will conduct research in policy and creativity, design new media applications and conduct workshops to fulfill our mission and aim.
Past Achievements/ Presentations:
KMD Masters Student Maiwa conducted a 3 Day workshop for children in Botswana. Children aged between 9-11 year of age in one of the poorest locations in Gaborone, were asked to create stories (creative writing/story telling), make story boards (picture story), use molding clay to create their characters and animate their stories (stop-animation). The children did not have any knowledge of computers and molding but were very excited and most of them would like to play with computers more often participate in such workshops more if given the opportunity.
Sound Perfume
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Face-to-face communication remains the most powerful human interaction. In this day and age, people have become dependent on electronic devices to communicate with others leading to many interpersonal difficulties and miscommunications in today’s society. We believe that face-to-face communication remains the most powerful human interaction and these devices can never fully replace the intimacy and immediacy of people conversing in the same room. If society loses its physical aspect, many of the subtle benefits that go along with physical face-to-face contact will also be lost.
Much of communication is done non-verbally and emotions can easily be transferred from person to person without the utterance of a single word. Sound Perfume is our attempt to encourage face-to-face communication by making it more emotional and memorable. We do this by augmenting a person’s experience through additional auditory and olfactory stimuli during social encounters. We designed wearable actuators that provide each user the ability to handcraft their sound and scent identity.
This identity is then transferred to another system when two people meet, using a unique technique known as eye contact interaction, stimulating each person with their partners sound and smell preference. We have developed a working prototype designed in the shape of a pair of eyeglasses that help us demonstrate the interaction techniques and actuations. We also present an advanced design that is minimalistic in its use of components.
Light Perfume
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Mirroring is the behavior in which one person copies another person usually while in social interaction with them and is one of the most powerful ways to build rapport quickly. When meeting someone for the first time, mirroring their seating position, posture, body angle, gestures, expressions and tone of voice are some useful examples of doing this. Before long, your partner will start to feel that there’s something about you they like and they may even describe you as ‘easy to interact with’. This is because they see themselves reflected in you.
Lighting and scents have shown to have an important role in reinforcing special perception, activity and mood setting, emotion, judgments, and even social relationship. Light Perfume was designed to help people mirror each other using visual and olfactory outputs to strengthen a user’s psychological bond with the partner. We do this by synchronizing the speed and blinking color of LEDs and emit the same perfume scent from each person’s device during a face-to-face conversation. The outputs are chosen based on inputs from the user’s environment such as noise levels and expressive body gestures.
Light Perfume was designed in a bangle in order to directly stimulate a user’s eyes and unobtrusively stimulate a user’s nose from the wrist. It also is a perfect location for sensors that detect acceleration of the arms and sound from the surrounding area. The aroma is created by heating solid perfume and emitted by the movement of the wearer’s conscious and subconscious body gestures during a conversation.