Homo Zappiens: Growing Up in a Digital Age – Wim Veen, Ben Vrakking – Google Books
Reference book for my Keynote talk at #ICALT2012
Reference book for my Keynote talk at #ICALT2012
Kissenger. Paper on Kiss Messenger published in Designing Interacting Systems 2012
Hooman Aghaebrahimi Samani, Rahul Parsani, Lenis Tejada Rodriguez, Elham Saadatian, Kumudu Harshadeva Dissanayake, and Adrian David Cheok. 2012. Kissenger: design of a kiss transmission device. In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ‘12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 48-57. DOI=10.1145/2317956.2317965 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2317956.2317965
In this paper, we present Kissenger (Kiss Messenger), an interactive device that provides a physical interface for transmitting a kiss between two remotely connected people. Each device is paired to another and can sense and transmit the amount of force that a user applies to a pair of lips which is recreated on the other device using motors. Kissenger was designed to augment already existing remote communication technologies such as video chat. The goal of this work is to promote intimacy between humans in long distance relationships. After presenting the background and motivation for the need of such a device, we describe the design process that consisted of three iteration stages, each with its own focus and evaluation. We then present a preliminary user study performed with seven couples that compare Kissenger to current video chat technology.
BRILLIANT ADVICE FOR A CREATIVE LIFE
01. Keep good company
02. Notice the ordinary
03. Preserve the ephemeral
04. Design not for the elite but for the masses
05. Explain it to a child
06. Get lost in the content
07. Get to the heart of the matter
08. Never tolerate “O.K. anything.”
09. Remember your responsibility as a storyteller
10. Zoom out
11. Switch
12. Prototype it
13. Pun
14. Make design your life… and life, your design.
15. Leave something behind.
http://www.swiss-miss.com/2012/06/the-15-things-charles-and-ray-eames-teach-us.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20Swissmiss%20(swissmiss)
Brilliant Advice! Startups, life, learning and happiness: Are you interested?
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie
Earlier this week I took a trip to the barber since my hair was getting a little long. It ended up being one of the…
An excellent article about the education system in China. Although it is great for producing highly educated kids, in fact it probably destroy’s creativity and the ability to have true genius, inventors, and world changers.
While American parents have been concerned with their lack of tiger discipline, the Chinese are looking for tips on raising their young from this side of the Pacific. China wants its own Steve Jobs, and it’s not sure how to find—or create—one. At times, the quest has reached the level of national campaign, with the government promising its prioritization and vowing to spend four per cent of the country’s G.D.P. on comprehensive education reform aimed, ultimately, at producing a Jobs to call its own.
Click-through to read more from Jiayang Fan on China’s search for the next great genius: http://nyr.kr/Looaw0
A big step to bring augmented reality to the mass market
This new web app is in my opinion going to be a game changer for augmented reality. Forget all the programming and learning about tracking. This app will allow the mass market to put augmented contents onto books and paper. From the start “Magic Books” were the dream of Augmented Reality researchers, and now we are basically at that point in mass market.
The Layar Creator. A self-service web application for publishers to
activate print pages with digital content.
