Debate Graph

http://debategraph.org/

Nice one on Meaning of AI.

Nice user interaface - nicely interactive. Super nerdy. 

My current top 10 papers.

1.	Solutions for visibility, accessibility and signage problems via layered graphs	359
2.	Collaboration and interference: Awareness with mice or touch input	342
3.	Issues and techniques for collaborative music making on multi-touch surfaces	326
4.	When the fingers do the talking: A study of group participation for different kinds of shareable surfaces	279
5.	Running up Blueberry Hill: Prototyping whole body interaction in harmony space	204
6.	Fighting for control: Children's embodied interactions when using physical and digital representations	202
7.	Bricolage and consultation: addressing new design challenges when building large-scale installations	172
8.	Neurodiversity HCI	118
9.	Kolab: appropriation & improvisation in mobile tangible collaborative interaction	74
10.	Ambient recommendations in the pop-up shop	49

102550all

This is a strange kettle of fish.The central open University repository ORO has given me a list of my top papers. Naturally this is a very strange order which is clearly effected by the year the paper came out (older better) and other sources of the download. It is promising that the neurodiversity paper is number eight despite being printed last year the deadline shop is already in the top 10 despite being A very new paper. Kolab still at nine which is a bit disappointing its a great paper and I would love to do more work with improvisation and tangible interaction if I could. Quite impressive that the two musicmaking papers are in my top three. I think the number one paper is the most interesting as it is one of the oldest papers on the collection. 

Pycotropic house

It was a great talk and very well revived.

psychotropic-house

http://www.guestprojects.com/programme/the-psychotropic-house/

I'm due to talk about the psychotropic-house at a London gallery next week.

 Psychotropic House Symposium has been announced. Tickets are free, booked via Eventbrite. 

Axisweb have decided this is 'top what's on recommendation' this week

Space and Interaction workshop accepted for CHI2013

Cool 


We are happy to inform you that your workshop

 150 - Interaction and the Production of Space: from Architecture to Navigation

has been accepted to CHI 2014 Workshops.

Congratulations, we're delighted to have you as part of our workshops program. We had 68 submissions this year, many of which received very good reviews. Our final acceptance rate was 49%.

3D printing building

Just looking at something else came across this revolution in Architecture - the kind of concreate you can use to do 3D printing of buildings. 

I Would like to look at the paper - how do they handle reinforcement bars ( aka rebars ) ? Could this handle agrigate ?  I've seen glass fiber in concreate with might be a rebar replacement. 




Makes you wonder if you can pre-print building as a base on Mars. 

This is a good example of the printer


There is a great deal of nivity about building - for example you don't generally have space around a site to put the printer frame down but does show a solution to the re-bar problem. Plus a good NASA base example! Architects look out! 

MIT are way ahread.  http://web.media.mit.edu/~neri/site/

The joy of data visualisation

After a week of report writing ... I'm back and came across this.

GPUImage : NSHipster

GPUImage : NSHipster:
While my central interest is human computer interaction I can't that help stop myself from getting highly excited about this kind of low level stuff. Basically in order to process sound and images in real time on an iPhone there is a separate group of tiny processes like a mini graphics card. Programming this GPU is pretty difficult compared to everyday programming. Indeed it'  so difficult we won't even mention it on the OU new algorithms course. 

However the Brad Larson has just created an IO library which hides all these GPU accelerated details behind a well-designed object. There is a mouth watering list of image processing operations which can be applied to video stream processing. Doing something like the tracking of all the fingers on a multi-touch table would be quite simple ( and fast) .  I could imagine hundreds of quite funky programs you could build using this. 

File under toolbox goodies

also here are some OPENCV info on ios programming 
http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/ios/table_of_content_ios/table_of_content_ios.html#table-of-content-ios

CHI 2013 BBC interview

The interview I did about the Music room at CHI2013 is now online

[here] 

Wow I talk fast... 

Startup Embassy Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley the high-tech start up capital of the world - but it doesn't look any different from any other US suburb. Its the people who make Silicon Valley and if you really want to 'stay in Silicon Valley' you have to meet the dreamers who drive it. 

No one understands the needs of a startup like Jordi. There are other incubators around the world but here you get more than a bunk, a desk and a fire hose of bandwidth. Here you get to meet other mostly young male entrepreneurs, you get to talk to people who have a vision and a desire to change the world. I found the young slightly geeky super intelligent , cosmopoliton crowd that live there a stimulating and welcoming. 

I love Jordi's overall vision of a place you can stay for extended periods while people get stuff built and mostly learn more about the whole startup process it self. I could only stop for two days but if I had to do a startup I would move base there for a few months. You can't study and MBA on how to be an entrepreneur, but you can live it and you can live it  at the Startup Embassy. I only had a couple of days there but immediately pick up on the friendly relaxed slightly college dormy feel. I had some fascinating conversations with the other guests on everything from Bitcoins to private space ventures. 

I can't imagine a better way to stay in Silicon valley the real Silicon valley. 

ps my bed top one on the right. 

Live from pervasive displays

Checking out google glasses at google hq.

The screen read - I cannot talk to google !

Arduino and Virtual Reality

I'm blogging this as a very cool and powerful way to use augmented reality.

This is a project  currently  looking for funding on kickstarter -
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lightup/lightup-learn-by-making
Very nice but the use of augmented reality to 'see' the electricty is the best use of AR I have seen yet

Ceiling interaction at TEI.

Cool looking celing interface TEI.

http://instagram.com/p/Vj5e6mTX9l/

Meanwhile Philips have introduced a LED bulb the colour of which you can control from your iphone. I would love to have a way to control it programatically ( and have rooms gets bright red when your late for an appointment. )

http://www.meethue.com/en-US

http://www.lighting.philips.com/main/connect/tools_literature/lighting-apps.wpd

Technical Overview - Native Client — Google Developers

Technical Overview - Native Client — Google Developers

This allows you to compile C/C++ as a kind of in web browser app. I could build some very cool things with this ( If I had the time).

kuler colour composition

 One day I would write a book about HCI for programmers and this book would contain all the things they don't teach you on an HCI course but you need to know about to make software that works. In this case it would be a short intro to colour theory.

Setting up a colour pallet before you start your design is one of those things you need to do and
kuler
is a lovely tool to help you do it.

Data ‹ The CultureCode Initiative

Data ‹ The CultureCode Initiative

As part of the process of discovering my northen roots I found CultureCode a hacker/artist collaboration."CultureCode events are designed to create an opportunity for the cultural and digital communities to work closely together". Mean while the data sets are wonderful.

Intelligent furniture

Thought this wizard of Oz demo might make a good ubiquitous computing masters project. 

DIS paper accepted!!!

We are happy to inform you that your paper

 207 - Kolab: appropriation & improvisation in mobile tangible collaborative interaction

has been accepted to DIS 2012 Long and Short Papers .

We received 449 papers which is about 150 more papers than DIS 2010, and many more than anticipated. We were able to accept only 89 papers due to the time and venue restrictions (so, the acceptance rate was just less than 20%).


This is a good day. 

Good news of the day

From Iaps IAPS 2012 Glasgow Organising Committee 
(IAPS) International association of people environment studies 


We are pleased to say that your submission iPfad: an iPad App for the real-time recording and encoding of direct observations of wayfinding behaviour has been accepted for inclusion in the oral paper category.  We would be grateful if you could confirm that still intend to present the paper at the conference.

Hasso-Plattner-Institut: Multitoe

Hasso-Plattner-Institut: Multitoe

Basically this is multi-touch big enough to stand on - which is quite need.