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Moodumbrella – a self em-powered device for well-being

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:00:22 +0000

During the lectures Fashionable Technology I and II from Sabine Seymour, Andrea Suter and me improved the common usage of an umbrella. In the end we developed a concept of a self em-powered device for people’s well being. Our umbrella using the approaches of light therapy and autonomous power resources.

moodumbrella

moodumbrella detail

moodumbrella in use

We created a prototype for interviews and user testings and we made a survey in Linz during a rainy day. The Austrain people were very sceptical and did not want to be asked about their happiness on rainy days. However, we were able to get some very useful feedback. The video below will show you examples of the feedback mentioned.

In the end we wrote paper about the details of light therapy and discussing mobile energy resources for smart devices.

Download the moodumbrella paper

My most important Twitter Messages #9

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:03:53 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from January - March 2011:

Allgemein (General)

RT When buildings start to tweet: Good overview of recent media architecture examples (Via @strg_n, @Heuserkampf)
Kurzes schönes Videoportrait über Julis von Bismarck
Starting to upload FOTB2010 videos: Brendan Dawes - more going up regularly. (via @FOTB)
Great Master thesis by Tim Devine about Device Shifting and #Design #mobile
Sabine is talking about Functional Aesthetics book in TEDx Vienna
Maybe an interesting book: Web Aesthetics - How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society
#Arte präsentiert ein Netzwerk für Künstler, Kulturproduzenten und alle anderen
Moving talk by Jonathan Harris on his work and the absurdities of digital livestyle
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network via Henning Schulze
Die Qual der Wiki-Wahl - #Wikis für #Wissensmanagement in Organisationen #dokumentation #vergleich
Nice articles about #urban based #computing & #design No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3
The Museum of Lost Interactions - very interesting and nice videos, too #media #archeology #art #design
RT open culture http://bit.ly/9qQrQD 340 free movies.
Sounds interesting: Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects

Generative Art:

More new great #generative #art tutorials from Nicolas Barradeau #flash #design
RT Fantastic geometry blog. http://moniker.name/worldmaking/
Neuer Monat, neuer Live-Mitschnitt. Mario Klingemann aka Quasimondo über "Schönes aus Code"

Info Design and Visualization

Nice resource for #information visualization projects: #Crime Maps of England (London) #infovis #data #webservice
Free-for-any-use ArcGIS Online map services: basemaps, demographic, reference, and specialty maps.
RT Vis JavaScript-toolkit by @mbostock: Data-Driven Documents / D3 (via @moritz_stefaner, @peterpaulrubens).

UX and Interaction Design:

RT Nice collection about small screen solutions: (via @minstyle)
RT The Psychology of Web Performance: (via @uxzentrisch)
RT loads.in - test how fast a webpage loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide: (via @janchriste)
Nice read: The ABC of behaviour #interaction #design #ux #article #read
Android UX Patterns via @richardleggett #interaction #interface #design
KinectTouch: turns any surface into a #TUIO touchpad using #kinect
rule based language for describing #multitouch #gestures by Lode Hoste

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

Very cool body mapping #kinecthacks via @chrisoshea
Interesting effect: Kinect Cloth Simulations #processing
Newstweek: a device to manipulate news read by other people on wireless hotspots (cafes, libraries, airports)
Really nice project: Esper Domino #senseware
Nice Space Motion Design by Sebastian Neitsch
Amazing work of Ryota Kuwakubo's - the installation The Tenth Sentiment
Wow Legoplatformer looks so nice for some experimental prototypings... #interaction #tangible #ar

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

some nice thoughts on Face Tracking & Face Recognition in AR #ar #tracking
Biometric systems are developed for the detection of faces and gestures

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

RT EaselJS v0.2 is released! Focus for this release: making vector shapes & text on HTML5 canvas easier
RT @blogblog: #ParticleSDK, a #crossplaform SDK to develop native #mobile apps from one codebase
RT Let's take a look: Eloquent JavaScript is a guide to JavaScript that focuses on good programming techniques …
Less Framework 4 is now out
RT Oh lovely: CSS Easing Animation Tool by @matthewlein (via @@mrdoob)
RT Hand detection with Blobscanner in Processing
Nice tutorial how to work with #java + eclipse in #MaxMSP
PixelWave - Native 2D iPhone framework based on the Flash API

Physical Computing

RT Arduino The Documentary (2010) by gnd
Great! @make published a site only about #arduino projects. Nice resource of tutorials and articles http://makezine.com/arduino/
Nice tips and advices for perfect soldering. Especially for #physical #computing beginners like me via @make
http://www.inventables.com is a great resource for new #hardware and materials in physical (computing) projects.

Game Developing:

RT New video tutorial on creating isometric 3D with @as3isolib
Nice read for #gamedev: #Flash #Game #Monetization: Total revenue from last 3 years
Interesting article: Indie #Flash #Game Development: 2010 by Josh Tynjala #gamedev #monetize
Nice #paper about #modding and the impacts: Precarious Playbour: Modders and the Digital Games Industry
A great #paper: Moving #Learning #games Forward by http://www.educationarcade.org #serious #gaming #design
RT DAME is an awesome free tilemap editor for Flixel. Also extendable with Lua.

Flash and Flex

RT gskinner: Open source profiler for AS3. Definitely worth checking out.
RT nice list of #Flash #Compression Libraries
RT Blogged: Using BlackBerry PaymentService with Adobe AIR for the #PlayBook
RT Huge open-source gesture library released by @GestureWorks
Nice tutorial: #Flash + #Alchemy Series Part 2: Environment Setup
Nice implementation of SimpleStageVideo
RT What can you do with bytes ? - Updated!
#Flash media server 4 #whitepaper now available
Nice tool for using #flash content: Resolume #VJ #Software
Creating QR Codes in ActionScript via @riarockstars
RT Check out the latest diagramming and #visualization libraries for #Flex and #Air apps by @KapLab
RT AS3 API: AS3Square

Book review: Form + Code (Generative Art & Design)

admin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:44:32 +0000

The last few weeks I did some research on the trendy topic generative art and design. I was very enthusiastically for reading the Form + Code book from Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, and the agency LUST.

The content of this book is very well structured. The first chapters introduces programming and the special characteristics of computers in design and art very well. I really appreciate it, that they chose the more concept introduction, then a technical focus. For this reason the reader gets a very good picture why the computer and programming could be helpful for creating new experiences. The transition from the introduction into the toolbox of creative coding is perfectly done. They explained the concepts of Repeat, Transform, Parameterize, Visualize, Simulate pretty good. Especially, the chosen examples of artworks for the various toolboxes are very appropriate. Therefore this book is a very useful resource for research in a scientific environment. The positive argument is also the little weakness of this book. In a theoretical terms everything is fine. The reader gets a very good introduction in this new topic. In practical terms the reader is very often alone with the code examples. Only two or four pages are too less for inexperienced programmers and designers. They are not going to understand and even learn so much from these code examples. The book delivers so much good content, but on the practical site if failed for me. For German-speaking and French-speaking people it is not worse, because the book Generative Gestaltung (review comes soon) is the perfect complement for this book. The book Generative Gestaltung has got some minor weakness on theoretical aspects, but the practical part and the learning from code is perfectly done!

However, this book belongs to every book collection of visual programmers, new media artists and designers. It is definitely the money worth! I enjoyed the reading very much.

Reminder for Flashers:

This books reminds me strongly on the creative coding beginnings, like it was with Flash 4, 5 and 6. Flashers, please don't forget your roots! Have also a look on the the old Flash Math Creativity Books (edition 2). Further good code examples are available on Liquid Journey. Joshua Davis and Branden Hall created a very good Flash library for generative design. Check out their Hype Framework!

My most important Twitter Messages #8

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:36:09 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from October - December 2010:

Allgemein (General)

dotBrighton Talks are online at vimeo #flash #arduino #android #gamedev #programming #talks #video
RT FFK10 talk of Chris Pelsor (@cspelsor) online: "DIY Methodology …" #ffk10 #video #session
Great unique style in photography http://www.jonathanleder.com/ unfortunately the flash site is really shitty...
free #icons until you die via SmashingMagazine
Beryll Art software looks nice for #manage and #document your artwork. But it is not cheap... :-/ #art #business

Generative Art:

Basics in pattern generation for visual programming by @nicoptere
Generating animals -> Cindermedusae is a great project inspired by Ernst Haeckel
Nicolas Barradeau - @nicoptere - wrote some really nice blog posts and slides about #generative #art & #design

Info Design and Visualization

Paper list of the Visualization Lab | University of California, Berkeley #research #inspiration #visual

UX and Interaction Design:

RT A visual study of computer GUI in cinema movies
Nice overview of user interfaces in current audio software products via @jensfranke
RT The Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University (via @stefanwoelwer)
Technical Paper: Designing gestures for (multi-touch) screens
Looks good: Chapter about Marking (menu) Interfaces #pen #stylus #interface #gesture #pdf

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

Beautiful Modeler is a really nice inspiration for gestural and device based interaction via @creativeapps #ipad
Nice multi-touch application "Finger tools" by @mattgemmell especially for multi-touch screens #gesture #app #ui
Nice project: Wearable generative design - #fashion #design
Arte versucht sich wieder mal an einem interaktiven Videofilm. Was meint ihr über Addicts?
RT Waterdrop shot in 10000 frames a second

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

RT GigaPan shoots a 1,539 megapixel panorama of the World Series (via @pauloroid)
Interesting article: A New Generation of Robotic Weapons #war #future #robotics

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

RT @REAS: SceneBuilder is patch-based programming built on top of Processing
@ben_fry announces the new Processing Plug-in for Eclipse: built by Chris @Lonnen. More on the wiki:
The Processing.js team is proud to announce release 1.0! Checkout the updated website and download. http://processingjs.org
my #processing #kinect library is pretty usable now, give it a try! cc @seb_ly @zenbullets
Just uploaded a preliminary TuioKinect demo video to Vimeo #TUIO #Kinect #OpenKinect #OF
Video: Kinect + Computer Vision + Javascript. DepthJS is a web browser extension that allows any any web page...
RT JS-Signals: custom event/messaging system for JavaScript - new open source project!
Nice read: How to be a #Programmer via betriebsraum
OpenNI for writing applications utilizing natural interaction in C++ is very interesting. I would like to try

Mobile Development

Good to read: Optimize #Flash Content and Improving #Usability on #Mobile Devices - Part #1
great article from @newmovieclip about mobile graphical optimisation.
An Introduction to #Android by Richard Leggett #mobile #dev #programming #java

Game Developing:

RT Blogged: AdvancED Game Design with Flash - book review
How To Protect Your Game From Being Rebranded by flashGameLicense #flash #gamedev #security
Get paid for your Alternativa3D tutorial! Maybe interesting for some Flash Developer...
Maybe interesting: 4 videos on the theory of game/social mechanics #game #design #social #media #future #talks
Nice blog post: #Game #design Designing the solution space #gamedev

Flash and Flex

Aka Shiva / Kolor RT @UnitZeroOne: "Flash Player 3D Future" session, by Sebastian Marketsmueller (aka Mr. Mole).
Nice read: Tips for Flash Developers Looking at Hardware 3D
Nice Resource: Security Domains, Application Domains, and More in ActionScript 3.0 #flash
That really looks good and kinda stable! #Flash #QR #Code #reader by Kasper Kamperman link via @quasimondo thx!
Interesting book I would like to read in the future: Developing Flex 4 Components Book #flex4 #book #components
RT Tonfall has now AIFF, WAV, RAW decoding & encoding support. (via @andremichelle)
For working with #Flash and http://www.tuio.org/ this might be a very interesting library
nice blog about #Kinect and #Flash http://www.as3kinect.org/ Especially the #skeleton #tracking looks good!
Remotair - concept of transmitting device inputs (gestures, mouse etc) into receiving #flash or AIR apps - Looks nice

Book review: Designing Interactions

admin — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:25:08 +0000

The book Designing Interaction from Bill Moggridge was already published in 2006. Even it is quite old for a technology book the content is still valid. The first six chapters give a perfect history background of human-computer interaction. The evolution of input devices and the computer itself is very good explained. Also the original comments from the designers and engineers are very interesting to read. In the end the reader gets a very good introduction how and why the computer evolved as it is today. Even the described history is a strongly based on the authors view. The chapters Adopting Technology and Multisensory and Multimedia gives a nice introduction into tangible interaction. It also helps beginners to understand how to leave the desktop metaphor. The whole book describes very easily how product designer, industrial designer, psychologist and engineers working together for developing the new devices. The texts about their development and thinking processes gives a very good insight. The last chapters about The Internet, Futures and Alternatives Nows, and People and Prototypes are nice to read, but with some comments I can't agree. For this reason, the aspects of Emotional Design and Prototyping are little bit weak in my opinion. However, reading the first six chapters is very useful for human-computer interaction beginners. It makes their knowledge around the history of Interaction Design more stable. The last chapters are nice to read, but not very obligatory. Unfortunately, the multimedia CD of the book I never really checked. So I can't say if it is good or not. For professional interaction designer is almost nothing new in this book, so I can't recommend it for them.

Book Review: Kreativität – Konzept und Lebenstil

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:13:00 +0000

Bei dem Buch Kreativität - Konzept und Lebensstil von Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla wird das kreative Schaffen und Leben aus einer psychologischen Perspektive betrachtet. Das heißt es werden nicht die Kreativtechniken selbst erläutert, sondern die Thematik Kreativität im Gesamten. In den ersten 20 Seiten definiert der Autor den Begriff Kreativität, und zerlegt ihn in die Bestandteile Begabung, Motivation, Persönlichkeit und Umgebung. Danach wird der Begriff Kreativität in einen kulturgeschichtlichen Kontext diskutiert. Mir persönlich gefielen besonders die Ansichten aus dem asiatischen Raum.

Der zweite Teil des Buches widmet sich der kreativen Persönlichkeit. Welche kreative Hoch- und Tiefphasen begleiten einen Menschen auf seinem Lebensweg. Was sind die positiven Entwicklungs- und Umgebungsbedingungen im Kindesalter, in der Pubertät, und während des erwachsen werdens, usw. Holm-Hadulla erklärt diese Bedingungen immer sehr schön anhand von praktischen Beispielen (siehe Goethe, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates usw.).

Im dritten Kapitel wird Kreativität in den verschiedenen Domänen Politik, Wirtschaftsleben, Wissenschaften und Kunst näher betrachtet. In diesem Kapitel bekommt man einen sehr schönen Überblick, und es frischt auch die Allgemeinbildung ein wenig auf. Die letzten 40 Seiten widmen sich dem Coaching von kreativen Personen und Prozessen. Welche Konzepte existieren und was man als Kreativer selbst beachten sollte gehören zu den besprochenen Themen.

Mein Fazit:

Das Buch lohnt sich auf jeden Fall für wirklich Jeden. Mir persönlich hat es die Kreativindustrie mit anderen Augen sehen lassen. Vor allem dass das "kreatives Schaffen" ein Segen aber auch ein Fluch sein kann. Segen wenn man seine Balance und Anerkennung gefunden hat. Ein Fluch wenn man unter Zwang kreativ sein muss. Besonders die daraus relativ schnell entstehenden Folgen (siehe Burn Out Syndrom) haben mich doch sehr überrascht. Hervorzuheben ist auch die nicht populäre Herangehensweise (siehe Literaturverzeichnis) von Holm-Hadulla. Er gibt zwar Tipps und Empfehlungen, aber unterstreicht immer wieder dass diese sehr von der eigenen Persönlichkeit abhängen. Für manche Menschen sind die erwähnten schlechten Bedingungen genau die nötige Konfrontation gewesen um etwas sehr Gutes zu erschaffen. Die 160 Seiten sind nicht immer leicht zu lesen. Die Erläuterungen des kreativen Schaffens anhand von Goethe's Gedichten können den ein oder anderen Leser nerven. Auch wiederholt Holm-Hadulla einige Fallbeispiele (z.B. den Konfliktlösungsansatz von Bill Clinton) mehrfach, was mich hin und wieder beim Lesen störte. Am Ende ist mir dennoch das Buch sehr positiv im Gedächtnis geblieben. Für mich ist und war es ein Must-Read Buch.

Designing Subspaces: Hermits in our digital Age

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:07:17 +0000

In my class PublicSpaces 2.0 from the space & design strategies department we discussed the connections between social media and public spaces. Also some design theory aspects were included into the discussion. In my case I introduced the lifestyle of hermits. Hermits create a kind of subspaces in urban or nature environments. These subspaces have got their own system and rules. Our current culture is characterized by fast technical developments and accelerated lifestyles. That includes travelling over big distances, moving often, huge information perception via social media services, etc. In some life periods these circumstances are not healthy. They cause long-term stress symptoms, losing creativity and so on. In this case the lifestyle of hermits can give an inspiration for creating a subspace in our urban environment. A subspace, which minimize these aspects of acceleration and creating an appropriate environment for each individual. In my presentation and in my paper I don't say that the solitary lifestyle of the hermits is optimal. A good environment has to provide also a stable social enviromnent with friends and partners. I am just using the hermit lifestyle for some design approaches and for getting inspired.

Hermits in our digital Age

View more presentations from Florian Weil.

Furthermore, I describe in my paper how people become unconsciously and consciously an hermit. Becoming unconsciously a hermit could lead to some conflicts in our society. The key aspects of Reduction and Filtering in designing Intertactive Media play an important role for solving this issues. More detailed explanations of my thoughts are written down in my PDF paper.

PDF PAPER: Hermits in our digital Age

Links of my presentation

My most important Twitter Messages #6

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:13:36 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from March - June 2010:

Allgemein (General)

Reading 'How To Market Your Mobile Application' (via @smashingmag)
175 free woodworking ebooks
the Pop Sciences Archive is opened and for free!
Free Paper: The Internet of things: Networked objects and smart devices
really cool project! http://openmaterials.org/about/ and maybe helpful for some future projects (installations and tangible devices?!)
RT @ben_fry is higher education a bubble that's about to burst? http://j.mp/cjf4Nh (via @humphd)
RT @apolaine New on Playpen:: Interdisciplinarity vs Cross-Disciplinarity
Adobe Story: A Collaborative Tool for Screenwriting - maybe useful in some future projects?!
Interesting: Slow Media Manifesto
Ole #Kristensen Homepage is a perfect resource for #stage-based #animations and #installations http://bit.ly/aHxX6T | http://bit.ly/d4a8Hn

Generative Art:

Mathematical Art and sculptures
Really great particle experiment with good potential for generative art projects
such a nice gallery: Complexification | Gallery of Computation #Generative #Art #Drawing

Info Design and Visualization

RT @DesignerDepot: 14 Visually Stunning Animated Infographics
Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide (TED Talk)
Nice use and explanation of Jeff Heer's horizon charts (http://is.gd/a1MhQ ): "Hoe de kredietcrisis de beurs besmette" http://is.gd/a1Mfm
Launch: The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate
A Tour through the Visualization Zoo - Great article!!! via @moritz_stefaner
http://wefeelfine.org/book has included some very nice data generated graphics - nice inspiration for info visualizatzion and generative art
RT @moritz_stefaner Put my presentation from Kassel last week up to slideshare: Information Aesthetics
RT @seb_ly how did I miss this? London underground trains' live position on a map!

UX and Interaction Design:

please welcome our new and growing project compilation on vimeo (via @idpotsdam)
Nice talk: Mike Kruzeniski-Poetry & Polemics in Creating Experience
MultiTouchGesture stuff: Talk | Icons#1 Icons#2 Icons#3
Reading all the paper of Organic User Interfaces http://www.organicui.org/
Designing Kinetic Interactions for OUI is a great article and it mentioned why interactive art is and was important
Some good thoughts on "natural" user interfaces by Don Norman: Natural User Interfaces are not Natural
Two nice talks about #EMOTIONs and #HAPPINESS in #Design processes. Perfect for the afternoon break

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

TouchDesigner, an authoring tool for building interactive 3D art, visualizations
RT @creativeapps toneglue is a nice Music band visualization App [WebApp, Flash]
Nice list: 11 Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface
Mobile physical-digital dial interface - Tangible Controller for your next generation mobile?!
Water-based touch screen interface - nice experiment-Dont know if it is helpful,at least it has a physical feedback
Interactive cookies for AR Applications http://tinyurl.com/yd9et59 and http://tinyurl.com/333odbr via MultiModal Interface Lecture
very nice media facade visualization
great audio visual based drawing project: Nodal Genesis- I almost fall in love with the vis techniques

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface
RT @quasimondo: Awesome puppet locomotion paper & video
boah shit sick face capturing. Much room for manipulation, like in the politic movie #WagTheDog
More information how this sick face capturing and scanning works
nice new PSD painting tools , especially in combination with http://bit.ly/2LcGnM and Coolpaint
New Material: Programmable Origami - reminds me on nano technology or intelligent textils

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

Xuggler is the easy way to uncompress, modify, and re-compress any media file (or stream) from Java to a red5 server
Live Screencast in Flash mit Red5 und Java Streaming Library
VH Java Screen Capture SDK looks nice... Hopefully it will not become so expensive...
Freeware: VH Screen Capture Driver supports C++, C#, Java, Delphi, etc
Pogg: Processing Theora Ogg Videos - Working with ogg (Streaming) Videos // thx @david_bru
kooaba’s image recognition web services API is public and their Query API is free! you can check
Great tool and lib for web harvesting / scraping to extract data from web pages
crazy Peter from Slovakia is an awesome visual animation programmer #processing. He rocks!
RT @jensfranke Benedikt Gross just released vers. 1.2 of his Processing Animation/tweening Library ANI. (via @CedricKiefer)
Very good resource for processing! http://wiki.processing.org/w/Main_Page

Physical Computing

Crazy LED clothes.... maybe hackable for something
nice website with tutorials in wearable technology http://lilypond.media.mit.edu/ via @popkalab
Hmm... this Amarino Project (Android meets Arduino) sounds interesting
Arduino is now flexible- seems perfect for fashionable projects?!
First Steps with Arduino - nice video tutorial for beginners via @make

Game Developing:

Flash Game Developer: Announcing Mochi Social & the Mochi GAME Developer Fund
Updated my FLash Game Lib Blog with some Links: PushButton Engine vs. Flixel Game Engine and other tutorial links

Flash and Flex

ASSURF by Eugene is an impressive image-based pattern recognition library for Flash
Two great tutorials for particle effects with flint: Introduction | Flint in a Game
RT Stevehoward999 nice bunch of Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 tutorials from Adobe TV
RT @mchaize: Yes ! Adobe Flex is open ! The AdvancedDataGrid and Charting components are open source
Flash Builder 4 is still FREE for students and teachers
Introduction to Flex 4 videos --> Good video links
RT thibault_imbert Blogged : Optimizing Flash Ads whitepaper and some XFL Gourmet
„Optimizing Performance for the Flash Platform.” Tipps für Flash Player 10.1. (pdf)
Optimizing web content for Flash Player 10.1 - a nice video talk
very cool article for MySQL + PHP and Flex Projects
Added http://www.flashscope.com/ on my blogpost for selling and buying flash components
Hm, I dont know why I found this http://flexbookmarks.com/ not ealier... But it seems to be a cool flex blog collection

My most important Twitter Messages #5

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:15:37 +0000

A small summary of my Twitter messages from Januar - February 2010:

Allgemein (General)

Alexis Milant is a great video artist. Especially this video I like very much
RT @golan: Just discovered that Ars Electronica is putting their archives on Vimeo
Nice list of demos and good points for #creative #visual #flash prorgramming. Thx to @mrdoob http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/685
Sehr coole Auswahl von Videokunstwerken - Arte Video Art Night Marathon
Funny interactive (media) installation Moving Mario thx @Bager for the link
Nice Project. The Sand-Printer via @make http://tinyurl.com/y8fhz4f
Interesting Master Program: European Masters in Ludic Interfaces
One of the best stage-based animations I have seen yet. Chunky Move's Mortal Engine
Interesting book puplished: Interactive Architecture Book Homepage
iFreeTablet the free alternative from ipad much cheaper and all open source. http://www.ifreetablet.com/ via @mcanet
Open source hardware - feature story in Wired - In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits
Cool Java-based circuit simulator. a good helper for physical computing experiments
Hm is this an interesting master study or just a trend study for getting new students: MA Social Media
puredyne - USB-bootable GNU/LINUX OS for creative media via @shervinafshar
Sehr guter und informativer Artikel zum Thema #Wissensmanagement (3.0). Nur der Schluss ist ein wenig schwach..

Generative Art:

Ich bin nun überzeugt und werd mir das Buch kaufen. http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/ Visual Programming Lernen vom Feinsten
RT @rafiqelmansy Fractal Art: Inspiration with Equations http://bit.ly/8UblDj
Really great generative art experiment - Alice in Wonderland, which worked with text as material and flash

Info Design and Visualization

RT @grumplet: 7500 words by Henry Hadlow in one image. Reviews Eigenfactor.org, Photosynth, wk.com, SeadragonCool info design project: Knowledge Cartography http://www.knowledgecartography.org/ via MStäbler,other nice project http://eigenfactor.org/
COMPUTATIONAL INFORMATION DESIGN (PHD Thesis) or Book from Ben Fry available as a PDF download
Choosing Colours for Data Visualization (.pdf) - prostheticknowledge
RT Upcoming later this year: O'Reilly's "Beautiful Visualization" http://is.gd/6Zlt9 featuring a chapter on "X by Y" http://is.gd/6ZlCr

UX and Interaction Design:

RT interaction design history slideshow (via @ighfggmuend)
PhD Thesis: An Exploration of Multi-finger Interaction on Multi-touch Surfaces by Shahzad Malik as a PDF Download
Nice list and maybe useful for some research papers... A DIRECTORY OF SOURCES FOR INPUT TECHNOLOGIES by Bill Buxton
Nice system!! MultiTouch Cell is the first multitouch LCD for fully scalable display arrays
Again,I highly recommend this book for Mobile Interface Design.It is old but many interface concepts are still upToDate
Now I am convinced about the advantages of http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/ for Interaction Designer. Rapid Prototyping Tool for Remote Devices
Disappearing mobile devices - a paper and concept by Hasso Plattner Institut Potsdam
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files via @smashingmag
RT @fuelinterface Amazing Alternative Interfaces That Will Change Our Lives | Fuel Your Interface ->Interesting overview
scalable actuated shape display from MIT's Tangible Media Group
Physical Gestures to Document Design Research
Dan Saffer's Talk: Researching and Designing Interactive Gestures

Projekte und Experimente (Projects and experiments)

Nice Project from MIT: High Low Tech http://hlt.media.mit.edu/
Wearable Technologies and other High and Low Tech Stuff from the MIT via @make interesting video report!
Secret handshake of the future from the tangible Interface class of the MIT via @make
RT “Notput” is an interactive music table with tangible notes, that combines all three senses of hearing, sight and touch:
LED Galaxy Dress by CuteCircuit is World’s Largest Wearable Display
Great use of Augmented Reality! LEGO Manual With ARToolKit
That is a really crazy map-location-based mash up demo - augmented-reality maps by microsoft
EKG-controlled Game of Life hoodie via @make
TouchDesigner, an authoring tool for building interactive 3D art, visualizations

Neue Technologie (new Technologies)

A Dynamic Facade
Nice examples and nice #augmented reality SDK for common #mobile Devices http://tinyurl.com/yz6hny3 | SDK www.metaio.com/products/mobile/

Programmierung und Software Design (Programming)

Let Arduino communicate with each other. Arduino control the other Arduino.Maybe the new Adruino Virus?!via @make
Xuggler is the easy way to uncompress, modify, and re-compress any media file (or stream) from Java to a red5 server http://www.xuggle.com/
Live Screencast in Flash mit Red5 und Java Streaming Library
VH Java Screen Capture SDK looks nice... Hopefully it will not become so expensive..
Freeware: VH Screen Capture Driver supports C++, C#, Java, Delphi, etc

Game Developing:

Playyoo is an interesting plattform for Flash Mobile and Flash Lite Game Developer http://blog.playyoo.com/ and http://playyoo.com/
Interesting report: Indie Flash Game Development: A 2009 Year-End Retrospective
Blog article: Best Selling Augmented Reality Games of 2009
Flash Game License: Looking Back at 2009: Trends and Statistics
Very cool styles for Casual Computer Games: Skateboard // Jump N Run Adventure
RT Getting Started: PushButton Engine recording from #SeaFlex last night: http://bit.ly/74jCHc (via @jnbeck)
Wow! a big Graphical User Interface Collection of Games. Useful for research in interaction design in Games http://gamegui.net/
Fast statistic consumption... RT @dotmick: Videogame Statistics
Cool game design prototypes for tangible interfaces: DaVinci (Microsoft Surface Physics Illustrator)
SurfaceScapes 2.0 demo - A further nice tangible Game Interface idea!
Nice article about creating a MMO browser game with Flash (Game: zOMG)
RT Addressing color blindness in (game) design http://is.gd/8HWrQ (via @elsassph)
Looks good: Flash Gaming on NVIDIA Tablets
Two great tutorials for particle effects with flint: Introduction Flint in a Game

Flash and Flex

Brain Computer Interface ActionScript 3.0 API library released by Sean Moore
RT New #Processing book by Ira Greenberg, The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers, is here!
RT @_sandro Highly interesting! Jangaroo - Actionscript 3 to Javascript Compiler! http://www.jangaroo.net/home/ - i think i'm in love
Nice list: 5 useful Flash applications listed by Mihai CORLAN
xmoovStream PHP video server for Flash. Not real Streaming, but progressive download with seeking functionality
RT Red5 Developer Series videos from @newviewnetworks look awesome! http://bit.ly/4KJBu2
RT We just released ASDocr, an AIR 2.0 app for working w/ASDoc. Makes documenting AS3 code much easier!
RT Here it is: @matthbooth's excellent webcam light-painting tutorial - http://bit.ly/4sipE5
This Controlling the rain project with Arduino and Flash gives a nice introduction into physical computing
Good introduction video tutorial for the Flash Gaia Website Framework
Whitpaper about Flex (Slider) Framework and mobile devices
Great resources for optimizing your content for flash mobile devices
A really useful set of ActionScript classes and utilities "to get you coding faster and more reliably": http://casalib.org
Pixelwave, framework for iPhones Games/Apps, based completely on the Flash AS3 API #iphone #flash (via @fplag)
You can monetize your Flex Components, Flex and Air applications with FlexDen.net http://www.flexden.net/
FlashSURF by Eugene is an impressive image-based pattern recognition library for Flash

SENSEWARE – How to Create the Experience’s Architecture

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:19:14 +0000

During my master studies at the Interface Culture department of the University in Linz I visited the great lecture SENSEWARE - How to Create the Experience's Architecture by Hide Ogawa. In this lecture we learnt and discussed how we can integrate and reproduce emotions + experiences in our technical-based environment. Furthermore, we discussed the roles of the different interactive design disciplines - e.g. Product Designer, Industrial Designer, Interaction Designer, Visual Designer, Experience Designer etc. - and how they work together in the domain of SenseWare products.

For a better understanding how SenseWare is implemented in each culture, we had got the task to give a 5min overview of SenseWare in our country. In my presentation I mentioned mainly the religion background of SenseWare in Germany. Nowadays I think delivering experiences in Germany is mostly driven by media institutions. See my slides here:

Senseware in the Germany Culture

The second assignment of this lecture includes a presentation of current SenseWare examples. For me it was obvious to mention the great SenseWare work of Stefan Ulrich (Funktionide and Liquid Wall) and the well-known digital handshake experience Poken. The other students presented also very astonishing projects: Corpora in Si(gh)te, Sakura, Wishlist, Lady K Bag, Magic Wand, Juice Skin, Ambient Umbrella, Big Shadow and so on...

Sense Ware Examples from Germany and Switzerland

The final assignment of this lecture was creating a concept of an own development SenseWare. During this design process we should consider the japanese concept of Mitate! Mitate is in my opinion a very interesting concept, which could have a big influence in the design process of technical devices in our future.

Anyway, my SenseWare concept tried to map the virtual abstract data and behaviour of social network profiles in real living objects. That sounds first very abstract and theoretical but I think my presentation slides shows my points very clear. So please have a critical look and I am looking forward about some feedback

Virtual Charisma Garden - A SenseWare Project

At the end of the Hide Ogawa's lecture I was very happy about the new inspiration and approaches from a Japanese perspective. Even the fact that our group was very international oriented (ca. 15 people from ca. 12 different countries - Bulgaria, Australia, Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, Iran, Turkey, Slovenia etc.) deliverd a huge inspiration for my mind. If you would like to add some more information of the topic of experience design and SenseWare, please feel free to leave a comment. Thx!

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