April 2008 - Posts

• News visualizations

  A couple of really nice, back to back posts on visualizing the news from Visualcomplexity.com. The first is a visualization by Dave Bowker of a week of news from the Guardian newspaper. Dave attempts to connect the dots between sets of articles. The second... Posted Apr 30 2008, 04:21 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, visualization

• Microsoft: Touchscreens Old and Busted; Force Sensitivity Is New Hotness

  Great bit of coverage on Gizmodo for some force-sensing work coming out of our team in Cambridge. Microsoft: Touchscreens Old and Busted; Force Sensitivity Is New Hotness“Researchers have come up with a prototype of their force-sensing tech that’ll... Posted Apr 24 2008, 01:21 AM by rb.work Filed under: Research, Microsoft, Press, Interaction

• The snaps of strangers

  One of the articles in Issue 28 of The Plug shows the results of tying a disposable camera to a bench in Atlanta, leaving it to strangers to fill the roll. The results show the street life around, friends, strangers, dogs. All kinds of stuff. I don’t... Posted Apr 13 2008, 03:59 AM by rb.work Filed under: Intersting or Strange

• HCI 2020 report on the radio

  A little bit of coverage of the HCI 2020 report launch on the World Service’s “Digital Planet” radio show. Here’s the points during the show where our coverage begins: 14:10 - Being Human segment begins 14:49 - Interview with Gary... Posted Apr 11 2008, 09:18 AM by rb.work Filed under: Microsoft, Press, Events

• HCI 2020 report launched

  A year ago Abi and Richard helped organize a gathering of 40+ “luminaries” from the field of Human-Computer Interaction to debate how the relationship between people and technology might change in the next decade. That event has resulted in... Posted Apr 02 2008, 02:47 PM by rb.work Filed under: Microsoft, Press, Interaction, Events