This morning I returned to the emergency room at Bispebjerg Hospital to do a presentation of our Interaction Design project at their morning meeting. This presentation has been underway for the longest time, mostly due to the fact that these people always seem to be busy, and you have to be patient in order to [...]
I’ve been reading several books on Interaction Design and how to design usable computing interfaces. I’ve read Alan Cooper’s About Face 2.0 and Klaus Kaasgaard’s Software Design & Usability. The former is a sort of entry-level book to the world of HCI, and it takes the reader through all the various stages of design â?? [...]
Apparently, what used to be known as Ubiquitous Computing, as defined by the late Mark Weiser, has hit a major semantic blizzard. The technology to make Ubiquitous Computing happen is finally getting somewhere, with RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) chips that look set to replace barcodes, and generally make objects carry information in a completely new [...]
This is pretty cool. Be sure to check out the video.
Last week, we finally finished our Interaction Design project, complete with mockups, report and everything. It is generally quite gratifying to do projects at the IT-university since they usually turn out to be a lot more tangible than what I’ve done at Comparative Literature and Anthropology. For this course, I was in a group with [...]