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  • NYCWasteLe$$: NYC's waste stream
    "The New York City 2004-05 Residential and Street Basket Waste Characterization Study is a comprehensive look at the composition and generation rates of New York City residential and street basket waste."
    (tags: trash newyork urban research)
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  • stickybits - tag your world™
    "Attach photos, video, music, text, pdfs, zips, etc to any barcode."

    Thinglink meets Yellow Arrow.


    (tags: barcode iphone social mobile sharing interaction location tools papercomp)


  • MicroPublicPlaces

    "In response to two strong global vectors: the rise of pervasive information technologies and the privatization of the public sphere, Marc Böhlen and Hans Frei propose hybrid architectural programs called Micro Public Places (mpps). mpps combine insights from ambient intelligence, human computing, architecture, social engineering and urbanism to initiate ways
    to re-animate public life in contemporary societies. They offer access to things that are or should be available to all: air, water, medicine, books, etc. and combine machine procedures with subjective human intuition to develop joint forms of observing and knowing that neither system is capable of on its own."

    (tags: architecture urban ANT public)

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  • Gesture Touchscreens might render Paper Prototyping useless « Schneide Blog
    "When using a Paper Prototype, the throughput of scribbled paper is enormous even with the classical GUIs. The more dynamic some dialog is, the more different parts need to be prepared in various states and locations (depending on the fragmentation of the paper screen). With gestures on a touchscreen, the user needs to be able to express them on the screen. Most touchscreen interfaces heavily depend on the (simulated) physical interaction between the fingers and some drawn “objects” on the interface. This is the moment when Paper Prototyping falls short of resembling the real interaction. You just can’t fiddle that fast with all the paper shreds."
    (tags: paper prototyping animation gesture)
  • YouTube - Ciao PDA application / interaction design
    (tags: prototyping usability paper video interaction design mobile)
  • YouTube - Video Prototype: Touchscreen Digital Camera
    incorporates sound
    (tags: paper prototyping animation)
  • YouTube - iPhone app | paper prototyping
    much more finished prototype
    (tags: iphone paper prototyping animation)
  • YouTube - Paper prototyping at work
    A video of a paper prototyping exercise of animation
    (tags: iphone paper prototyping animation)
  • Plain English Breakfast » Blog Archive » Animating paper prototypes
    "The desk is the stage, and the action is framed inside a print-out of an empty browser to give it context. I wanted it to look so simple and sketchy that nobody could possibly confuse it with a design, so I used paper, card and Post-Its to build up the scene and laid a sheet of acetate on top, which I wrote on with OHP pen. There’s a rather crude cardboard mouse-cursor and a rotating paper ‘in progress’ icon.

    There are 8 animations in total, each of which illustrates part of a user journey through the form and highlights complex validation behaviour I’d found tricky to explain. I was a bit worried that the developers might think it was gimmicky, but the novelty wore off quickly and they rapidly moved on to focus on the content. Because the videos illustrated a lot of the main ideas, everyone involved was spared long, tedious meetings talking about display conditions and validation behaviour. This was a big win."


    (tags: prototyping animation paper ux video design tools interactiondesign wireframes)


  • Wireframes Magazine » prototype

    "Ondřej has created a paper cutout for this sketches that allows him to reuse parts of his interface by means of overlapping screens."

    (tags: paper prototyping animation)


  • Starving College Hacker » Blog Archive » Pulse Paper Prototype

    "The animated portions of the prototype are difficult to demonstrate. Our current methods of showing animations are: using icons connected to strips of paper that the wizard could pull and push, drawing with a marker on transparency, using a magnet to move a metal icon around. While these were fun to work with, considering other methods of simulating animation would make the user trials go smoother."

    (tags: paper prototyping iphone animation)

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  • Google Data Center FAQ « Data Center Knowledge
    List of locations of Google datacenters
    (tags: data datacenters google location)
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  • Control Freaks | | Originally published in the March 2010 issue of Architectural Record | McGraw-Hill Construction - Continuing Education Center
    "Pervasive sensing and interactive building controls stand to radically reshape the human response to architecture, the city, and even the air we breathe. Call them the new controls."
    (tags: architecture pervasive urban)
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  • Caroline Chen - Dancing in the Streets in Contemporary Beijing: Improvised Uses and Long-Life Practices within the Urban System
    "Despite violent, overnight transformations of familiar spaces, elderly Chinese women are still dancing in the streets, enjoying themselves, circulating their qi. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1). to give an account of on-going doctoral research on the improvised uses of interstitial spaces within Beijing’s urban system for health, and (2). to suggest new research directions that further examine urban experience from the perspective of users."

    Paper available in English and Chinese


    (tags: china greenspace play aging health urban)

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  • On the art of building in ten books - Google Books
    "I have often conceived of projects in the mind that seemed quite commendable at the time"...
    (tags: favoritethings architecture)
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  • cityofsound: Teaching and drawing Urban Sensing
    "We're doing various things, but last week I tried a technique with them that I've often used myself. Writing on photographs of an average street scene, we asked students to imagine all the data that could be derived from the scene via sensors (in the broadest sense of the word), and then go on to sketch interventions or hacks into those scenes, drawn from such data sources."
    (tags: urban architecture design infrastructure ubicomp research representation surveillance 214)
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  • Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Famous user figures in the history of HCI
    "Marketing people, engineers and designers often rely on persona, i.e. fictional characters created to represent the different user types within targeted characteristics that might use a service or a product. In the history of human-computer interaction, some user figures have been so prominent that it is important to keep them in mind."
    (tags: hci personas history)
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  • HarvestMark - fresh food traceability solution
    "Discover how we make food traceable."

    "When a farmer harvests his crop, or a packer selects product to send to her customers, they upload key data to HarvestMark. That information is linked to a unique HarvestMark Code on the label. When you trace the Code at HarvestMark.com, you instantly receive the traceability information on that product, like where it was grown and whether it's subject to a recall."


    (tags: food sustainability pervasive)


  • GAFFTA – City Centered: Request for Proposals



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  • Civic Center
    "Civic Center champions civic engagment through stories, services, products, and public installations."

    For example:

    “E is for eminent domain!” This coloring book explains urban planning-related topics in a friendly format. Terms like central business district (CBD), urban agriculture, and non-governmental organization (NGO) are illustrated to help young and old alike understand the lay of the land and how they can help shape it."

    and

    "

    Neighborland.org is a crowdsourced matchmaking service between residents who want specific services and businesses who want a viable place to open. Citizens can publicize and pledge for the local businesses they want, reducing the risk for new entrepreneurs and allowing individuals to directly shape the future of their neighborhoods."


    (tags: design urban community culture public social participatory)

    • ]]>     http://www.confectious.net/thinking/archives/2010/02/links-for-20100-8.html http://www.confectious.net/thinking/archives/2010/02/links-for-20100-8.html links Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:05:46 -0800     City Centered: Request for Proposals I'm helping organize City-Centered, a show of site-specific locative media projects in San Francisco. The deadline for proposals is March 1 -- please let me know if you have any questions!

    Recent exhibitions, festivals and conferences across the US and in Europe have taken wireless networks, public space, locative media and urban environments as sites of intervention, creativity, and critique. Formulated within the emerging context of networked urbanism and mobile media, City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community will focus upon dynamics of the shifting, locative, cartographic and social space of the city. It is organized by educational, arts, community-based and civic organizations and asks how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression.

    From within San Francisco's Tenderloin district, this festival will celebrate the rich possibilities that art and technology offer for urban communication of place and place-based media. City Centered focuses on the use of locative media and wireless technologies for site-specific and neighborhood-based interventions. Artists, designers, architects, community and cultural workers --people, places, and devices -- will meet for four days of street-side celebration, public exhibitions, a symposium, and workshops. The festival seeks new work aligned with the themes of creative mapping, urban storytelling, sentient space, body awareness, local history, contested spaces and gaming.

    City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community
    June 11- 13 & 19, 2010
    Sponsored by the Center for Locative Media, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, KQED, Conceptual Information Arts/Art Dept/San Francisco State University, the City of San Francisco, and the Berkeley Center for New Media
    Submission deadline: March 1, 2010

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  • Sensing the city, update one: our approach | Fields of Activity
    "A quick technical update on our mobile phone sensing project with UTS (see earlier post for context)."
    (tags: mobile research design sensing urban environmental)
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  • Binary Body Double: Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal [Scientific American]
    (tags: microsoft gesture natal embodiment)
  • Nike True City
    (tags: urban products mobile pervasive ubicomp)
  • Week 241 [BERG]
    so goddamn true.
    (tags: interactiondesign prototypes methods)
  • digitalresearchtools / FrontPage
    "This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers."
    (tags: data teaching research tools)
  • elaine wherry » an ethnographic analysis of ux professionals
    "UX professionals are some of the most professionally unhappy folks I’ve ever encountered."
    (tags: ux work)
  • Products For a New Age
    “Altruism is a good reason to do something once, but not to repeat it,” says Timothy Prestero, founder of Design that Matters, a nonprofit social-enterprise design company based in Cam­bridge, Massachusetts. The organization teams student volunteers, professional consultants, and aid agencies to tackle some of the world’s thorniest design and distribution problems. The company’s current collaborations include a low-cost, low-energy microfilm projector to promote literacy in West Africa and an intuitive intravenous-drip flow controller to allow nonmedical personnel to assist ailing family members. “There’s a reason design isn’t beating a path to the doors of nonprofits and aid agencies,” Prestero says. “They don’t tend to have a lot of money.”
    (tags: design environment public industrialdesign designthinking)
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  • The Making of a Design Thinker
    "I was trained as an industrial designer, but it took me a long time before I realized the difference between being a designer and thinking like one. Seven years of undergraduate and graduate education and 15 years of professional practice went by before I had any inkling that what I was doing was more than simply a link in a chain that connected a client’s engineering department to the folks upstairs in marketing."
    (tags: designthinking ideo)
  • The iPhone Inspired DIY Kitchen Touch Screen Project
    "For years my wife has been on at me to put a computer into the kitchen where she can manage her recipes, shopping lists, to do lists and access the internet for looking up various things. After looking at a couple of pretty basic and well overpriced commercial units we decied to have a crack at doing this ourselves."
    (tags: diy iphone domestic pervasive)
  • Vitality update: Jan 2010 on Vimeo
    "It's been a busy year. See updates on our product iterations, clinical data results, pharma customer traction, distribution strategy, new patent filings, press and awards, team growth and plans for the new year. "
    (tags: medical ambient video ubicomp pervasive healthcare)
  • Noby Noby Boy's Keita Takahashi Interview - Page 3 | PS3 | Eurogamer
    "I believe that it is alright to create a stupid and irresponsible game, I really do."
    (tags: games play)
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