http://community.research.microsoft.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=app:weblogs&tag=Interaction&orTags=0&o=DateDescendingSearch results for 'app:weblogs' matching tag 'Interaction'en-USCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/work/archive/2008/07/30/microsoft-design-expo-2008.aspxWed, 30 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:2295AnonymousI’ve been really impressed by the student output from the design courses at Dundee University in Scotland. I saw work from the Innovative Product Design (IPD) course at New Designers a couple of years ago and was really struck by the fact that they encouraged visitors to their booth to play with their creations. Most [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/work/archive/2008/06/12/the-eco-zoo.aspxThu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:2029AnonymousI’m really blown away by the Eco Zoo as the first very compelling example of the use of 3D in a Flash website. The art style is lovely, very reminiscent of the shots I’ve seen of the forthcoming Playstation 3 game, Little Big Planet. http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/work/archive/2008/05/28/tag-galaxy.aspxWed, 28 May 2008 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:1813AnonymousI’m a bit of a 3D UI sceptic. I just have some history in the area, and it’s left me thinking that 3D interactions are often cumbersome and rarely have a life beyond what their cool factor gives them. Case in point is this Tag Galaxy search. I really find it compelling. I’m not sure [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/work/archive/2008/04/24/microsoft-touchscreens-old-and-busted-force-sensitivity-is-new-hotness.aspxThu, 24 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:1094Anonymous 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 let you apply different kinds of force to a device, like twisting or bending, to do stuff [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/work/archive/2008/04/02/hci-2020-report-launched.aspxWed, 02 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:899Anonymous 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 a really great read, a report entitled “Being Human: Human Computer Interaction in the Year [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/work/archive/2008/03/13/green-objects.aspxThu, 13 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:847AnonymousThere’s an irony in green product design that we may just never get passed since you need to purchase new stuff, and creatively recycle/throw out the thing you’re replacing, in order to follow your ethics. Sometimes it just feels better to keep going with what you’ve got until it “naturally” comes to the end of [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/work/archive/2008/01/24/ask-e-t-interface-design-and-the-iphone.aspxThu, 24 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:456AnonymousEdward Tufte has posted a video that extols and criticises the iPhone UI design. He’s clearly a fan, and having played with the device I can understand why. I thought his critique on the Stock widget was particularly interesting, though, calling the UI “cartoon like” and wishing that the data existed at “image resolution” rather [...]