Archive for the 'HCI' Category

Yesterday a friend sent me an interesting link (thanks Drew), and today Erik Stolterman posted it to the HCI listserve as an example “worth reflection and critique”:
http://www.infinityart.ro/
I think this site is a great artifact to apply the critical approaches I have been learning in class. Using a phenomenological lens, my first thought is that this [...]

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 [...]

Realism in HCI

October 17, 2007

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 [...]