Great talk by Gillian Crampton-Smith (read another great interview here) - what is design research, when is design research and such matters are beautifully dealt with in her talk at Innovationsforum
Gillian Crampton-Smith // Convivio // IUAV from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.
Add comment April 23rd, 2008
Our new album is reviewed in the May issue of WIRE. An excerpt:
“Immaculately designed, with a modernist cool that still has room for the fallibly human, putting on Avellaneda is the sonic equivalent of the room suddenly acquiring a classic Arne Jacobsen chair; perhaps the model 1307 that broke technical ground by bending plywood into a smooth curve…”
…neat metaphor, methinks.
Add comment April 10th, 2008
The Mars Desert Research Station project is fascinating in all its enthusiastic, slightly nerdy, and energetic frenzy to find out what it would mean to live on Mars. Now, they have also had a socalled FLAME (family living analysis on Mars) team out in the Utah desert for some research on what it would mean having a family living on Mars. Aside from the expected (primary geological) research, the FLAME team is focused on psycho-social aspects of living together, of coping with frustration and other interesting issues. Perhaps designing for interactions with smart environments on the Mars habitats, creating better potential for peacefull co-habitation in a tincan placed on one of the more unforgiving places in the solar system will come to be a major challenge for human-factors specialists and HCI people sometime during the next decade. I do hope, however, that they will recruit beyond the usual suspects in space exploration: engineers, biologists, and other natural scientists. If people are supposed to live, work, and enjoy themselves in a hermetically closed, high-tech habitat (a wicked problem if there ever was one), input from the “softer” (man, I hate that adjective) sciences will be extremely valuable. Anthropology, sociology, even psychology + a healthy dose of design thinking will be needed if we’re one day supposed to reach the stars!
Add comment March 6th, 2008
Finally, after FOUR YEARS my new album with Skyphone is out on Rune Grammofon on February 25. Rune writes:
Skyphone belong to a new generation of Danish musicians that also include bands like Under Byen and Efterklang. Musically it´s possible to place them somewhere between Efterklang, Sigur Ros and Swedish group Tape. In the Rune Grammofon catalogue Skyphone is probably closest in spirit and musical ideology to Svalastog and the more melodic sides of Alog. With ”Avellaneda” they have further developed the ideas of their acclaimed ”Fabula” debut into a seamless blend of acoustic and electronic elements, rich in detail and sonic refinement, with the occasional touch of Scandinavian folk music providing a strong melodic base”
Add comment February 13th, 2008
Bill Buxton gives a brief history of multitouch interaction. I find it interesting to see the amount of reuse taking place, the way, for instance, the 1992 Simon shares a lot of stuff with the iPhone…
Add comment January 2nd, 2008
In 1986 Frank Zappa discusses obcenity and censorship on CNN’s crossfire. What an educated man, he’s hugely missed!
Add comment November 21st, 2007
Thursday, I defended my thesis on “Trust Within Technology: Risk, Existential Trust, and Reflective Designs in Human-Computer Interaction”…the doctor is in the house! Find the abstract here...
bliss…
Add comment November 4th, 2007
‘Pataphysics, a term coined by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873 – 1907), is a philosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. It is a parody of the theory and methods of modern science and is often expressed in nonsensical language. A practitioner of ‘pataphysics is a ‘pataphysician or a ‘pataphysicist…
Add comment August 27th, 2007
