A nice video of a presentation by Dan Saffer on designing interactive gestures. Dan points out many of the challenges we see in designing for our TouchSmart devices. In particular what he calls Gorilla Arms, or the issue of holding your arms straight out at length for using a large touch screen. He discusses the idea of [...]
Duncan Speakman has been working on something he is calling subtlemob, which is a sort of reaction to the flashmob meme. The idea is to have a cinematic experience in the moment as you are in a place with others who may also be participating. In a mediascape called “always something somewhere else” Duncan created [...]
I have worked on a number of Touchscreen products like the HP TouchSmart and the HP Slate, as well research products like the HP multi-touch Misto table. But these were not HP’s first touch products by far. Actually that honor goes to the HP 150, one of the world’s earliest commercialized touch screen computers.
The screen [...]
The Power of Play: Using Fun to Increase Engagement and Drive Viral Distribution, a XEOPlayShop
Looks like an interesting tutorial and Nicole usually has some great insights to pass along.
The Power of Play is a one day hands on tutorial workshop on how to design viral distribution and social interaction through the emotions of play. These techniques taken [...]
I am not going to make it to SXSW this year because of some critical project activities but some embers of my team will be there. I encourage everyone interested in pervasive media to check out the various activities related to the Pervasive Media Studio. I am particularly hopeful about the ”Pervasive Games and Playful Experiences: Rendering the [...]
Google adds biking directions to Google Maps. See the official announcement over at the Google Blog. I already checked out my route to work and Google suggests a different route than I have been taking. Looks like it is probably a bit safer and almost the same distance as my usual route. That is kind [...]
There is a TechCrunch article about Stickybits, a startup in the growing object tagging space. They connect an iPhone app with the sale of these cute barcode stickers to allow you to easily tag any physical object. I have always liked the idea of connecting the physical world with virtual web objects (see ubimedia, Integrating the [...]
There is a nice tutorial on the TheFlashBlog showing how to create a multi-touch application in Adobe Air.
This would work great on the HP Slate when it is available later this year.
A recently released video showing our pre-release HP Slate product running Adobe Flash. My team has been working on this product for some time and the lead design is moonlighting as the hand model in this video. I really can’t say much about this product because it is pre-release but I hope to post more [...]
Here is an engadget story about our Airlife 100 product. This is a soon to be released touchscreen netbook product that was designed in my team at HP. Quite a challenging undertaking given Android was not designed as a netbook OS. It is always an interesting challenge to push a new platform into new directions, it leads [...]
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