David Roedl

The car company Fiat is releasing a new model that comes with a built-in eco-driving information system. The principle is very similar to our CHI 2007 project, Celerometer: help drivers improve efficiency by changing their driving style. Here is a description from Fiat’s website of how the system works:

EcoDrive collects all necessary data relating [...]

The annual Bioneers conference, from San Rafael, CA, is “a gathering of scientific and social innovators who have demonstrated visionary and practical models for restoring the Earth and communities”. The event features powerful speakers representing diverse approaches to sustainability.
Lucky for Bloomington residents, this weekend’s conference plenaries are being broadcast live via satellite to IU [...]

At described in a previous post, Gillan Smith’s writing set up the challenge to develop an “independent language of interaction” that fully exploits the medium of computers — similar to how the early techniques of cinema eventually stabilized into a coherent visual language. While its contentious that such a singular language can be created [...]