Lauri Laineste defines UXD, IA, UI, and IXD in short as can be seen at userflow.tumblr.com and to which I agree.
November 14, 2013
November 1, 2013
Try Windows 1.01 (1985)
Try by yourself: Windows 1.01 emulated in Browser.
Interesting to see some HCI designs which didn’t become extinct until now, e.g. menus and the cursor. OK, right now we live in a changing HCI world but do not forget the origins.
April 20, 2013
CHI 2013 (04/27/2013 – 05/02/2013)
A preview video for the CHI 2013 (ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 04/27/2013 – 05/02/2013, Palais des Congrès, Paris):
It seems the virtual world is more and more expanding. Is it good or bad? How will our world be in let’s say 30 years?
Yet, i don’t know. And that confuses me.
via Google+ Community ‘Human Computer Interaction’, see also the CHI 2013 website
March 1, 2013
Free hand gestures everywhere
Looks like a comfortabel armband which measures your hand gestures by muscle contraction and with which you can control nearly every other technology.
via Heise.de, see also GetMYO.com
November 4, 2012
HMIs for the highly automated (e.g. cars)?
Looking into future, which HMIs do we need for such a highly automated thing as the car in the video? Do we have to let ‘them’ do in order to concentrate on other informations or do we have to keep situation awareness and control all the time. If so, how?
December 7, 2011
Future mobile interaction
Samsung is showing his version of future mobile interaction with life (video) chat, augmented reality, holograms and life translations for better international communication.
So, how long does it take until it isn’t future any more? Can’t wait.
But in some point it seems not really useful, there are some improvements possible. Because the display is transparent other people can see your content. And do you really want other to see e.g. your chat partners? And where comes the sound from? How to charge it or won’t it need a extern power source ever? And where is all the intern (hardware) technology which enables this user experience? How do i get my photos and so on to my private computer at home?
In my opinion this is only a vision which shows the way from today with tablets and smartphones to a further technology step. I think some years ahead all of us will weare a little thing like a wrist watch. This will contain all the hardware to connect us with the real and virtual world. It mainly uses holograms for our visual sense, there can be a camera and beamer included to enable augmented reality experiences. This little thing can observe our vital functions permanently and maybe even get its power from our own body (temperature?). To ensure data privacy we have to build it near the eyes. Maybe that’s why we will look like a cyborg in future (but with all hands free).
April 8, 2011
Digital writing only with a glove
Jeff Rowberg developed a glove which tries to replace the standard PC-keyboard.
Here a video that explains the functionality: www.kickstarter.com/…/video.html And here’s more material:
Hm, seems cool to me. If you combine it with accelerometers you can use gestures for further interaction. Not only zooming gestures are possible. Also gaming like punching seems to be an option. And all that with one glove. What if you wear two of them maybe with some kind of different functionality?! And in combination (meaning registering the distance between parts of both gloves) there is much more interaction potential.
And the best: You can built it on your own because it’s made by open source hardware. So we can try to improve the glove or support Jeff.
[kickstarter.com: Keyglove]
[www.keyglove.net: The Keyglove Project]
March 4, 2011
Tactile feedback shows the way
Last week / in my last post we saw how the brain is able to control a means of transportation. But how to know where to drive? Beside the speech output option of GPS one has to verify the way by looking at the GPS. But with the tactile feedback called “Shear Feedback” by researches of University of Utah the driver can have his look on the road.
This option is really nice because it allows many use cases (bike riding directions, direct blind people, …) and is private (no one else realizes the informations (security reason) respectively get’s distracted by the cues (privacy reason)).
But I’m asking myself if this is really applicable for bike riding when there are vibrations through rough underground?! Under these circumstances you can’t hold your fingers at one point and the vibrations maybe interfere with tactile cueing. Interesting work has to be done…
[heml.eng.utah.edu: Shear Feedback]
February 13, 2011
Touch screen in car
Why do we need touch screens in cars instead of knobs or buttons to control volume and so on?
I think in one hand it’s a good idea because you can change the interface in one car very easily (from background to themes and whole controls or even the entire arrangement). But on the other hand the display in the video above is dazzling and the haptic feedback might be missing. So the driver could be more distracted than with conventional control elements.
February 4, 2011
Electro-impulses instead of glasses
That’s funny!
But can this be true? To trigger a blink of an eye with mini ‘electro-shocks’ to the temple, that’s possible in my opinion. You need at least 25 blinks / electro impulses for each of the eyes. That’s also feasable, I think. (I don’t know exactly if this is really enough but it has to be the minimum!) But when I try to blink with my eyes as quick as possible everything is getting dark. The amount of time I closed my eyes is bigger than the time I have my eyes open and the ‘open time’ isn’t long enough to process the content / images. So in my point of view this video is funny but not more.