The actual writing-up aspect of the project has probably been the most useful part of the exercise because it has forced to filter down what I have resaerched to only the most useful parts. As I was writing the report it just suddenly became clear that the best way to explain the key aspects of [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Research – 27.05.08 – Conclusions
May 28, 2008
Research – 25.05.08 – Starting to come together
May 25, 2008
Over the past few days I have been focused on turning my research into phatic communication, tangible interfaces and technologies and projects associated with these things into a research project that is going to really benefit me as oppsed to just being an extra burden. To do this I had to really assess what [...]
Research – 18.05.08 – Phatic tangible devices
May 18, 2008
Over the past few days I have been investigating the major developments in tangible interfaces used for developed for “phatic communication”. This has been quite successful, certainly from an academic standpoint, though I have found it difficult to ascertain whether there have been any major developments in the commercial sector, though I think its doubtful [...]
Research – 15.05.08 – Tangibility
May 16, 2008
Over the past few days I have been researching tangible interfaces with particular reference to the different functions they can perform.
What has become apparent is that the majority of work in this area, especially in a commercial areana has been focused in two areas; personal support, which could be location based, i.e. navigation systems or [...]
Research – 13.05.08 – Planning Research
May 12, 2008
I felt I made some good progress with my own research planning today. Last week during the 20 minute research exercises we were doing in class I was feeling quite apathetic towards it, in the sense that I felt I partly knew the outcome – that google was an inefficient way of searching and [...]
Maeda
May 8, 2008
Loving the work of john maeda
at the moment. His book maeda@media is full of beautiful, intricate yet simplistic and inspring images. It really makes me think how we should be using computers and the tools it brings, we should be experimenting with the tools and creating images and designs that are true to the nature [...]
Research – 08.05.08 – Getting started
May 8, 2008
Today was our first day in Unit 2.3 proper (yesterday – was just a bit of a stress – to be expected when forming groups). The theme of the day was based around managing research, and to be fair this is somewhere where I possibly lack certain skills or at least motivation so was there [...]
links for 2008-05-06
May 6, 2008
Tagging Goes Semantic With Zigtag
(tags: semantic tagging)
Maeda’s SIMPLICITY: a… ah … ATCHOO! Gestaltung!
(tags: maeda simplicity design)
links for 2008-05-03
May 3, 2008
The Media Lab
(tags: research mit)
Connectibles!
(tags: social MIT tangible)
Tangible Media
May 3, 2008
Exploring possibilities for major projects I think a really interesting area of study is taking technology away from the screen and into our hands. It seems that nearly all of the advancements in technolgy that either make our lives easier, enhance our social lives or simply improve communication between us and our peers are screen [...]
