Fun looking Phone interaction design app

Mitya - The fastest way to prototype interactions



Another intreasting app  this time specialising in transitions and movement.

Fun looking Phone interaction design app

Mitya - The fastest way to prototype interactions



Another intreasting app  this time specialising in transitions and movement.

Smart Watches, Wearables, and That Nasty Data Rash - Part 2

Smart Watches, Wearables, and That Nasty Data Rash - Part 2: 



"A subset of marketers persistently and excitedly promise a future of location-based advertising where we’re pummeled by ad messages and discount offers as we pass by storefronts or walk through shop aisles"



Strange our contrast between the physical and off-line worlds. In the physical world this sounds nightmarish, but isn't this what happens in the digital world already? Content based on my emails and once you've have looked at previously always seems to follow me around the Internet. 



I guess it's a matter of how we display the adverts. I've been followed for months for ads about smart tags, which would be okay. Given that the biggest segment of marketing on the Internet seems to do with Viagra, then being followed around by adverts for penis enlargement and begging letters from African princess seems to be another. So seeing the advert is one thing having adverts about us that others can see is another.



The article also references a very cool device Nymi.  http://www.getnymi.com  vision of which I think is perfect, unfortunately it's the sort of thing you could do easily with an Apple Watch in software. That said, this machine is independent (it can operate without being a peripheral for a mobile phone ). From a convenience point of view, this kind of identifier works really well, unfortunately it also has the slight problem that you tend to invest the device with your identity and all the chilling aspects that in tales. 

Rebutting science fiction.

That's the CHI rebuttle off.
plus got some experiments done ( 4 people - nice results so far )

nice thing about technology on BBC ...
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140110-technologys-greatest-myth


Mentions

Lecturing in late 1968, the American sociologist Harvey Sacks addressed one of the central failures of technocratic dreams. We have always hoped, Sacks argued, that “if only we introduced some fantastic new communication machine the world will be transformed.” Instead, though, even our best and brightest devices must be accommodated within existing practices and assumptions in a “world that has whatever organisation it already has.”


http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444328301

Why do we have technocratic dreams ? Why not polticratic dreams or sococratic dreams.

I wonder why we have science-fiction, but not the Law-fiction (fiction based on speculation on what the world would be like in the future with diffrent systems of laws ) Social-fiction ( people who speculate on what the world would be like in the future with different systems of social organization ).  Art-fiction ( people who speculate on what the world would be like in the future with diffrent types of art ) or Author-fiction ( people who speculate on what the world would be like in the future with diffrent systems types of litrature ). So why science fiction ?

WatchKit - Apple Developer

WatchKit - Apple Developer



The Watchgate is now available. About every 10 years a new type of user interface becomes publicly available,  I was finest moments incredibly exciting as new paradigms of interaction become possible. Over the next few months some lucky people are about to begin to make their fortunes.  New household names are about to be born how exciting.

The book proposal is in.

I've sent off the book proprosal ( finally ) Yeah!  

Feeling like I'm getting stuff done ( finally)

Vessyl - Automatically Track Everything You Drink

Is this for real ? I'm not sure. It claims it to beable to sense a huge amount, the display looks like a special effect in a movie ( i.e. really cool ).



Assuming it does exist it would be a really cool example of ubicomp interaction.

Space in Videos - 2014 - 10 - Ambition the film

I could say that I liked the gesture-based user interfaces. In fact I'm including it only on the basis that I just like the video.

Space in Videos - 2014 - 10 - Ambition the film:

 

BBC News - Silicon Valley's billion dollar start-up failures

BBC News - Silicon Valley's billion dollar start-up failures: Hammering that home, a recent CB Insights survey found some 42% of failed start-ups blamed their demise on a basic lack of a market need for their product.



which is why we have HCI.

Mapping the Landscape of Sustainable HCI

This is an interesting paper which shows how clustered around particular topics sustainable HCI is.



The calls for further connection with outside fields is significant. If I had time I would like to review the papers listed in this paper. I have always been surprised about  the number of behaviour change papers labelled as sustainable HCI.



From my point of view what makes sustainable  HCI different from traditional HCI is we are trying to control technology. That is deliberately promote technology which already has a cheaper alternative (oil,gas) in many ways you can think of this as fair trade technology. Normally you want you technology to recede into the background, much as the case for pervasive interaction. Fair trade technology wants to reverse this process it wants you to become more aware of a particular technology and therefore choose it over another despite being less objectively competative. In which case of fair trade goods, we are willing to pay more in order to support social goals. Green technology is a fair trade technology. We want you to choose this technology over other technologies on the basis of some quality ( in this case environmental impact).

Senarios

While doing other research I came across these European standardised future scenarios for ambient intelligence.



Is this just me or do they feel a little spooky and weirdly dystopian ?

The quote that defines HCI.

From An Architecture for the Integration of Physical and Informational Spaces: a quote which sums up HCI research in one sentence.



"While computer processing power, storage capacity, and bandwidth are continuing to experience exponential growth, individual human processing capabilities are not increasing significantly."