Research

Parents to be educated about the Interweb

March 27, 2008

There’s a well-balanced piece from Patrick Wintourin the Guardian today about parents being shown how to protect their children online. It reports of a government initiative based on a review by Dr Tanya Byron (she works as a consultant in child and adolescent mental health and also presented quite a few programmes for the BBC [...]

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Out of Bounds interview with Chris O’ Shea

September 27, 2007

Chris O’ Shea recently completed Out of Bounds during his residency at the Design Museum. Chris also writes the very good Pixelsumo from which I frequently steal links draw inspiration and I’ve been a little remiss about blogging this earlier, but Chris promised to also put some video documentation up online (which helps explain the [...]

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Dan Saffer on Design Research Lies

September 24, 2007

Brilliant clip of Dan Saffer doing the start of his How To Lie With Design Research talk at the 2007 Design Research conference. If you’ve ever been to pretty much any conference (but especially design education ones) and heard someone just spout nonsense for half an hour, you’ll enjoy Dan pointing out the elephant in [...]

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Data Visualisation Approaches

August 4, 2007

There’s a great post on Data Visualization: Modern Approaches over at Smashing Magazine. Some of them are pretty well-known, like Newsmap and (one of my favourites) We Feel Fine, but there are some newer and more unusual ones in there too as well as some good links in the comments. There seems to me to [...]

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Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education Seminar

August 1, 2007

I’m going to be giving a seminar called Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education at Urban Learning Space in Glasgow who have a number of really interesting projects concerning future ways of working, playing, thinking and learning. I’ll be presenting the Creative Waves 2007 – VIP project in detail, talking about the using a [...]

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The Playmakers

July 25, 2007

I’ve just been introduced to a wonderful book. It’s called Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them, by Tim Walsh and documents the history and development of classic toys. The original, self-published, book was called The Playmakers: Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys and Tim has a website and blog of the same [...]

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Human Computer interaction in Sci-Fi

April 19, 2007

I added the link to Michael Schmitz’s Human Computer interaction in Science Fiction Movies to my del.icio.us account a while ago when one of my students showed me the link. I then forgot to blog it. It’s a pretty interesting account of the interaction (sorry..) between sci-fi and what actually exists or is invented as [...]

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Reactable cacophony

April 13, 2007

Evidently Reactable has been around for a couple of years, but I hadn’t heard about it until one of my ex-students, Gabi, sent me the link. Undoubtedly Reactable is a really great implementation of a tangible interface and it is also plugging into the whole multi-touch mania (although it’s a completely different system – it [...]

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Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

April 7, 2007

I’m super happy to see Chris O’Shea’s post about his visit to the Kinetica Museum to see the retrospective exhibition of the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre & The Ride of Life down at Spitalfields. I remember visiting their museum in Covent Garden as a child and being enthralled by the automata and mechanical toys. (We still [...]

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Jonathan Harris Coolhunting Video

March 27, 2007

Following up on my recent post about Jonathan Harris’s new work, Universe, Mike alerted me to this video interview with Jon on Coolhunting. It’s always interesting to see a person talk whom I have interviewed via e-mail before (I’ll post my interview with Jon in my interviews archive soon). It’s also fascinating to see all [...]

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