Fair enough, the video above was on Engadget months if not years ago. Yawn
|-O ...
Two options for evolving & the Red Fez:
1. I could follow Engadget, Gizmodo and IntoMobile instead of Kevin Kelly, McKinsey, Seth Godin, and pixelatedimage in order to keep myself up-to-date on blazing gadget topics. Could chime in immediately then. But: I expect you are following the mentioned sources already and I would be late anyhow.
2. I could completely concentrate on relevance instead of timeliness from now on. The main categories of this blog are in order of relevance--counting the number of posts down to the present day:
#1 Business, Marketing, and IT (212)
#2 IA, IxD, and User Experience (181)
#3 Digital History (118)
#4 Scientific Background & Education (96)
#5 X-cultural Matters! (76)
#6 The Mobile Web (65)
#7 Social Media (60)
#8 Photography (5)
I'll choose option 2. Wasn't my initial goal to curate and compile into one stream all ideas and inspirations between Marketing and IT that seemed relevant to my own work and hopefully yours?
Run-up to Christmas musings aside: Here we go, topic #2: IA, IxD, and User Experience!
How did I come across RWTH Aachen University's Media Computing Group in the first place?
Via Apple's iTunes! Don't tell me it's not a relevant social network ...
Listening in on some Stanford University lectures and following a related link to Jan Borchers' iTunes U recordings on Designing Interactive Systems, HCI Design Patterns, and Current Topics in HCI.
A great selection of topics and fabulous research indeed!
One commenter to the video asks: "Interesting, but what is the use of having tangible widgets when you can have virtual ones?"
The answer: "Haptic feedback and, therefore, an eyes-free interaction (no need to look at the control when operating it)."
I haven't used an iPad myself. Up-to-now I'm typing with haptic feedback from my keyboard and without looking. Can we do that on an iPad? Can we operate a multi-touch environment without haptic feedback? Or do we actually need widgets and madgets of some sort?
We live in interesting times with respect to human-computer interaction. Hopefully overcoming the keyboard-mouse-monitor-speaker GUI paradigm soon ... Watch the video! | Head over to RWTH Aachen!
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