In 2007-2008 there were a handful of multi-touch concept demo videos created, accompanied by upbeat music. The song in this video would be great for the Glee iPad/iPhone app!
Sing with yourself and Gleeks around the world in perfect harmony:
Demo of the Glee iPhone + iPad App by Smule - "I'll Stand By You" "Glee, for iPhone + iPad, by Smule. This impromptu, one-take performance by Smule engineer Nick late one night at HQ demonstrates how the app transforms his voice into a group of singers harmonizing with him."
This is exactly why I NEED an iPad!
Tutorial Part 1
"How To"
Tutorial Part II:
The Glee GlobeShows how you can share your Glee songs and sing with others around the globe!
"... working with a growing array of technology companies, researchers, health advocates, employers, media, consumer advocates, marketers, providers, etc., we are seeking to identify the uses of this data that would do the most to raise awareness of health performance, help motivate civic leaders and citizens to improve performance, and help improvers do the improving.
Potential examples include:
Interactive health maps on the web that allow citizens to understand health performance in their area vs. others with tremendous ease and clarity
“Dashboards” that enable mayors and other civic leaders to track and publicize local health performance and issues
Social networking applications that allow health improvement leaders to connect with each other, compare performance, share best practices, and challenge each other
Competitions regarding how communities can innovate to improve health performance
Viral online games that help educate people about community health
Utilization of community health data to help improve the usefulness of results delivered by web search engines when people do health-related searches and further raise awareness of community health performance
Integration of community health-related data into new venues, such as real estate websites, which could be highly effective disseminators of such information
Etc."
Harnessing the Power of Information to Improve Health
Event: Community Health Data Initiative Launched (06/02/2010) (Long!)
HEALTH DATA AND GAMES FOR HEALTH!
My favorite section of Alex Howard's post:
Game mechanics and health data "Community Clash isn't the only game that's using community health data: SCVNGRlocation-based technology that has become familiar to many through Foursquare and Gowalla with specific challenges to earn points. SCVNGR provides a platform for organizations to build games upon. To date, more than 550 institutions in 44 states and 20 countries have taken them up on the opportunity as clients, including museums, conferences, universities and cities. combines the "John Valentine, SCVNGR's conference and events manager, says that SCVNGR now has more than 20 million locations in its system and is being downloaded thousands of times daily from the iTunes and Android app stores. In D.C., SCVNGR will be a part of the upcoming Digital Capital Week."
The IxDA (Interaction Design Association) forum has an thread about designing for TV interaction. Several IxDA members have shared some resources on this topic. I've just uncovered the links and resources and thought I'd share them in this post, with a detailed follow-up in a week or so, as I'm also researching topics related to 3D TV.
"Interaction Design (IxD) defines the structure and behavior of interactive systems. Interaction Designers strive to create meaningful relationships between people and the products and services that they use, from computers to mobile devices to appliances and beyond. Our practices are evolving with the world; join the conversation." -IxDA
Visual Planet’s ViP Interactive Foil has been innovatively used by a student from King’s School Sixth Form in Rochester, UK to create an aesthetically pleasing and extremely creative coffee table inviting interaction from the family.
This is one of the books on my summer reading list. I planned on buying this book last summer. I got around to ordering it a few days ago, and today, it arrived in the mail.
Nathan Yau, the author of Flowing Data, was responsible for the first chapter, "Seeing Your Life in Data". I'm a fan of the Flowing Data blog. Nathan shares quite a bit of interesting- and beautiful- information on his blog. For example, his recent post, Strata of common and not so common colors,
"The Color Strata includes the 200 most common color names (excluding black-white-grayish tones), organized by hue horizontally and relative usage vertically, stacked by overall popularity, shaded representatively, and labeled where possible. Besides filtering spam, ignoring cruft, normalizing grey to gray, and correcting the most egregious misspellings (here’s looking at you, fuchsia), the results are otherwise unadulterated." - via Stephen, of Weather Sealed
After looking at all of the colors, I followed Nathan's links and the links from his links (I love colorful rabbit holes!)... and found this graphic about the differences between girls and boys, from Doghouse Diaries, on the xkcd blog:
