The conclusion of the Nielsen Norman Group’s April 2010 study of iPad usability is that it has problems and more [...]
Usability Ain’t Everything – A Response to Jakob Nielsen’s iPad Usability Study
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The SENSEable City—Carlo Ratti
Carlo Ratti (Senseable City Lab, MIT) talks about how sensed data allow a new information layer to be revealed on [...]
Designing for the Web in the World—Timo Arnall
This is Timo Arnall’s talk from Interaction 10. “Digital interactions are moving beyond keypad and screens and into sensing,[...]
Gaming can make a better world—Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal (Institute for the Future) on how gaming can make the real world a better place (TED, February 2010). [...]
Locative Gaming: The First Ten Years—Kati London
Kati London (Area/Code) gives us a brief history of location-based gaming. “When we start to get used to experiencing places [...]
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop—Keiichi Matsuda
Here’s a nice concept video by Keiichi Matsuda showing a dystopian near-future vision of augmented reality (via Adam Little).
Accountability of Presence—Paul Dourish
This is the talk that Paul Dourish gave about location-based technologies at Stanford University as part of its HCI Seminar [...]
The Latest in Wonka Vision: A Flexible Multitouch Surface
Microsoft Surface is so 2008. That is what we are led to believe reading about the latest product from Future [...]
New Soft City—Dan Hill
Dan Hill (Arup) talks about the changes that are happening to our cities (ubicomp, urban informatics) and what it means [...]
Even in iPad’s Shadow, Courier Shines
Portable computing, including tablet PCs, has been the hot topic since Apple’s unveiling of the iPad in January. While the [...]