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July 25, 2008
Sketching in Hardware Day 1: Tom Igoe
Physical Computing's Greatest Hits: the wheels that people reinvent again and again
(in rough order)
- theremin-like instruments
- drum gloves (tangible vs intangible)
- dance floors
- Scooby-Doo paintings: paintings that react to presence (easy to sense presence, hard to sense attention)
- body-as-cursor
- video mirrors (aka, hand wavers, because people always wave their hands)
- mechanical pixels
- hand-as-cursor (aka Minority Report)
- multi-touch surfaces (exercise:operate an iPhone while it's in your pocket)
- tilty stands and tables
- tilty controllers
- things you yell at
- meditation helpers
- fields of grass (running your hand across it affects it)
- dolls and pets
- remote hugs
- LED fetishism
conversation
these are really design patterns
what they have in common: 10 second space of expertise achievement, so they all feel the same
we need a tradition of "hello world" projects in crit culture, so we can focus on applied culture
tradition is fundamental in mature fields
but there may be just a community-wide obsession with the technical level
Posted by egoodman at July 25, 2008 11:40 AM
Comments?
This is interesting to see... I often wonder when the time will come when there is a museum of interactive technology. Then students can start their studies with a baseline in work that has been done before. Like playing the scales or imitating the masters. What can we expect as incoming students have a working knowledge of using these design patterns? Hopefully they can experiment and innovate from there.
Posted by: agmilmoe at July 25, 2008 2:30 PM
I think, as with industrial design, there will be (I hope) both museums and a critical literature that is more focused on the ideas than the specific technologies. I think Sabine Seymour's recent Fashionable Technologies book is a good step in that direction. But it still comes down to changing pedagogy: students have to read the books in order to think through them.
Posted by: Registered User at July 26, 2008 8:39 AM
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