CIRO Multitouch Screen Construction Documentation from CE3C on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1065 0 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=1050 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=1050#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:34:20 +0000 shiori.saito http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=1050 Original article from Putting People First



Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail has published an extensive, three-part interview that Chad Sapieha conducted with Microsoft Principal Researcher (and fellow Canadian) Bill Buxton.

A chat with Microsoft Principal Researcher Bill Buxton, Part I

The back stories of several modern consumer devices, from touch screen phones to smart watches.

A chat with Microsoft Principal Researcher Bill Buxton, Part II

Focus on Kinect, the motion-based, controller-less interface that will come to the Xbox 360 this November.

A chat with Microsoft Principal Researcher Bill Buxton, Part III

What the next big thing will be.

]]> http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1050 0 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=1044 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=1044#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:33:06 +0000 admin http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=1044

The CIRO (Complex Input, Rational Output) research and development project presented a public presentation/showcase of the newly built multi-touch screens and research initiatives during CIRO DAY on September 29, 2010 at the CE³C. It turned out to be a great event with fantastic artist talks and visitors from diverse disciplines and institutions attending.

Visit here for event details!

]]> http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1044 0 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=1039 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=1039#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:29:56 +0000 admin http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=1039 Aircord Lab developed a device with a special screen and a projector suitable for the iPad. It can display objects in 3D, without needing glasses.

N-3D DEMO from aircord on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1039 0 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=912 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=912#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:56:12 +0000 shiori.saito http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=912 Very interesting idea for digital story-telling for children even though this video seems to have a bit too much activities (so much shaking, rotating..etc.). I know it’s very exciting to have active engagement with the story but I think maybe nice to have more space for imagination and immersive experience too. Having meaningful relationship between actions and contexts will enhance the experience. But anyways, this is going to make bedtime-stories so much fun!!! (well I would get too excited to sleep maybe )
]]> http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=912 0 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=901 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=901#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 17:07:56 +0000 shiori.saito http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=901
May 18-19th, 2010
Bartos Theatre in the Wiesner Building, MIT (View Map)
Cambridge, Massachusetts



Sandbox Summit ® is a highly-respected series of conferences that explores how technology affects the way kids play, learn and connect. As technology is woven into every part of our children’s lives, Sandbox Summit raises the bar on questions surrounding the use and development of new playthings and play spaces.Through high-energy panels, innovative demonstrations, original research, and thought-provoking discussions with industry leaders, analysts, journalists, educators and parents, each Summit strategically intermingles disciplines and viewpoints to bring fresh ideas to every event and never talk to a room full of nodding heads. (Frog Design)

How play is changing media and media is changing play — very interesting summit to attend!

Frog Design’s Principal Designer Laura Seargeant Richardson will give the keynote “The Medium Doesn’t Matter” at the Sandbox Summit.

The focus of her talk is on the increasing importance of involving play across all platforms as an important training ground for kids to understand greater complexity and introduce new ways of seeing. Laura explores how the medium won’t matter for this; it will simply be another toy waiting for interpretation, manipulation and imagination by the child.

Check out this video from Frog Design where the children are creating their own ways of seeing by identifying design solutions using their most sophisticated tool: their imagination!

]]> http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=901 0 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=896 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=896#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:31:23 +0000 garrett.baumgartner http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=896 Here’s a very cool research project out of the Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany that explores what would happen if you take a multi-touch screen and embed it in a floor that can be stood on, walked on and jumped on. The possibilities for interaction are quite unique with this approach because viewers’ feet (not their hands) are used to engage with the installation. Of particular interest is how the system distinguishes between different users by the pattern of their shoe prints. The link below also contains of video of the installation being tested – well worth a watch:

http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/baudisch/projects/multitoe.html

]]> http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=896 0 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=879 http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=879#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:37:10 +0000 kurtis.lesick http://www.cirolab.org/blog/?p=879 fresh back from a day at the banff centre, our team has fallen in love with the microsoft multitouch surface. sleek, robust and uber responsive we were left uttering the same comment: WE WANT ONE!!

Travis Kirton tours us through some of the finer features of the MicroSoft Multitouch Table at the Banff Centre (video)

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Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we’ve gained?

The PBS Frontline documentary digital_nation explores these questions by taking the viewer around the world; from game cafes in South Korea and a middle school in the Bronx, to following military drone pilots that fly in warzones thousands of kilometers from where they’re sitting.

The full documentary can be seen online as well as a host of additional content surrounding the theme of digital_nation.

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