Archive for the 'conference' Category
life blog being weblogged
2005.11.11 - 22:11
The conference is ending. Some observations:
- user exp is a big word. for the context of this conference, it meant
something like a humanized version of the term HCI with more marketing
focus.
- solving and/or improving existing problems/product (aka textbook
usability) sounded like yesterday’s as topics in a conference like
this - though it is the evidence that the real world is still being
educated about this
- seeing the practices in the order of phases of product development,
the presentations saturate more on both extreme ends, leaving the
transformatio nin the middle as a mystery
- closing plenary was inspiring as was his book. it hinted on that its
our homework to design things to increase the likelihood of incurring
positive unintended consequences
- reflecting upon tenner’s talk, our work (nokia sensor) in the past
did try to foresee unintended social consequences by user trials to
design for making such consequences more positive. since i am not a
very good writer nor public speaker, i hope to see more work from
others in the industry on this issue. personally i found it the most
difficult (and expensive) part of concept development work - if
observing/analyzing the existing world and throwing ideas are the
sweetest part of the exploration work - based on my experience. that
said, i am not saying that such work is necessary all the time. as
tenner said, sometimes intuition of a good designer is enough.
- entertainment. this conference featured a professional conference MC
who’s inbetween a standup comedia and a talkshow host. it took some
time to get used to (i never did actually) to understand why more time
is given to her than the audience of the speaker. the format made me
think never-come-back-again-to-this-conf unless you want to simply
socialize (which could have been great had i not been jetlagged so
long). there’s definitely a trend in stressing the show element in
conf presentations - who’d hate it when our attention span is getting
shorter and shorter?
mixed interaction spaces
2005.09.14 - 11:09
Using the camera as the tool to measure the change in distance and direction of the mobile phone from the starting point. For instance, using my face as the anchor point, i can move the phone to navigate info (scrolling or zooming). By thomas riisgaard hansen, aarhus university.
info visualization
2005.09.12 - 18:09
Showing how many people are in the room. Not sure what other parameters are at play.
context photography
2005.09.12 - 18:09
From viktoria institute in sweden. A very poetic way to capture the context ‘metadata’ in the image.