Presentations

Watched the guys presentations.

Reminded me of Johnny Chung Lee and his Wiimote Project. found it months ago but have completely forgot. this is a great project as it is open source and also extremely cheap in comparison to other touch and interactive interfaces.

http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

kinda like minority report with the wall you control with the gloves.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/minority-report-ui.jpg

Jef Raskin

Just found a piece of reading by Jef Raskin. He is most well known for his ideas on interface and also was one of the people who built the mac.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D39vjmLfO3kC&dq=jef+raskin&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=COqAg34Z_7&sig=HcxkdeQJp_LXb5sRhvEofxjemMg&hl=en&ei=vkYWSo_jFI2RjAesoKzjDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2

found through google book search. The online book is limited.

Iphone vs Surface

Having trouble deciding between which touch interface to research,iPhone or the microsoft surface.

Im drawn towards the iPhone as i have hands on experience plus it also helps with one of the points Im trying to make about affordability

Haraway

Did some searching into interface. D Haraway keeps poping up but after reading:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html

She describes the interface as a membrane between the human and the computer.

Found by using google scholar