Martin Polley
on February 24th, 2010
Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrates Microsoft’s new augmented reality mapping technology (TED, February 2010).
Martin Polley
on February 4th, 2010
This is an amazing piece of work from Muriel Cooper and her group at the MIT Media Lab’s Visible Language Workshop (VLW), which she presented to the TED conference in 1994.
There’s much more information about the project over at David Young’s blog. (Many thanks to him for making this video available.)
Martin Polley
on January 26th, 2010
Ribbon Hero is a game from Microsoft’s Office Labs group that encourages you to learn how to use Microsoft Office’s features.
Martin Polley
on January 11th, 2010
I think the new interaction paradigms that Microsoft’s Project Natal will introduce are going to make our lives very interesting indeed… (Hat tip to Keith.)
Martin Polley
on December 14th, 2009
Martin Polley
on November 5th, 2009
A bit of interaction design history for you this time—Doug Engelbart’s famous 1968 demonstration that showed, for the first time, the use of a mouse, as well as video conferencing, email, hypertext, and other technologies that have since become commonplace.
Martin Polley
on October 20th, 2009
Yusuf Mehdi of Microsoft demonstrates a vision of the office of the future, using the walls as giant touch-screen displays. It even has what could be called the spiritual successor to Clippy (although he is much less obnoxious, in a Knowledge Navigator kind of way). (IAB MIXX conference, September 2009)
Martin Polley
on October 8th, 2009
David Merrill (MIT Media Lab) demonstrates Siftables, “independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication capabilities”, which aim to “enable people to interact with information and media in physical, natural ways that approach interactions with physical objects in our everyday lives” (TED, February 2009).
This video has been around for a while, but it is definitely worth a look if you haven’t already seen it.
Martin Polley
on August 27th, 2009
Here’s another augmented reality application — this time a game (project site).
Martin Polley
on August 25th, 2009
The Stratus Air concept was Cooper’s entry in the recent I.D. Magazine Annual Review. It aims to “ease the pain and smooth the turbulence of business travel”.
