UPDATED iRiS: iPhone Remote Interaction System: Paint a multi-media facade on your favorite building! via Johannes Schoning (updated with links)

"We used Touch Projector to paint on a multimedia facade (here: Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria). Users simply aim their device at the facade causing the viewfinder to show the facade locally. In this local image, users can now draw with the selected color. The building then changes its color accordingly as if users directly painted on it."


NOTE:
Currenty Johannes Schöning works at the Innovative Retail Laboratory of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbruecken.  His research interests include new methods and interfaces to intuitively navigate through spatial information, and ways new intelligent interfaces can help people to solve daily tasks more effectively.  Johannes recently completed his Ph.D. at the Saarland University.  He runs the multi-touch Google group. (LINK: http://groups.google.de/group/multi-touch) Johannes is involved in a range of interesting professional activities.  He's currently looking for new opportunities.


SOMEWHAT RELATED
Urban Screens Conference & Exhibition:  Calls for Interactive Media and Video Art (2010) 
More Urban Screens and 3D Media Facades
Book:  Media Facades:  History, Technology, and Content (M. Hank Haeusler)
3D Projections on Buildings: A distinctive way of communicating
Communicating Through Architecture:  Media Facades and the Digital Infrastructure  The Rathous (Contains an assortment of videos and pictures)
Art and Commerce Meet on Building's Interactive Media Facades
Kelsey Keith, Fast Company, 10/2/2009

Pics and Video Interview: Plastic Nine-Inch Prototype $75.00 One Laptop Per Child Tablet with Dual-mode display by 2012? Via the Nick Barber

Below are pictures of the prototype of the XO-3, the third-generation of the One Laptop Per Child project, via gayakuman, and a video interview of Nicholas Negroponte discussing the third generation prototype of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, OX-3.





Nick Barber, of the IDG News Services, reporting from the MIT MediaLab:


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One Laptop per Child and Marvell Join Forces to Redefine Tablet Computing for Students Around the World PR Newswire 5/27/10
MOBYLIZE by Marvell - Marvell's Moby Tablet (below)

OLPC's Negroponte says XO-3 prototype tablet coming in 2010
Nick Barber, IDG News Service 5/27/10
OLPC XO-3 Dream Tablet May Come True After All
Brian Barrett, Gizmodo 5/27/10
OLPC Wiki

For a smile: Revisiting the Past: IBM and Muppet Films (via my nephew)

My nephew shared a link to a post about the IBM Muppet Show on the Technologizer blog, so I followed the link and decided the topic was worthy of a quick post.


-IBM Muppet Show,  Technologizer  Harry McCracken  5/31/10

Cookie Monster and a Fully Computerized Coffee Machine
"A computerized coffee machine is a great boon to mankind"


A look at a promo for old IBM technology, produced by Jim Henson.
"IBM can help you with the time it takes to do the paperwork"
"Machines Should Work, People Should Think."


MUPPET MEETING FILM PROMO


Kermit the Frog on the topic of successful selling, for IBM:



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Welcome Aboard: A Muppet Cruise to Computer Literacy
(Game produced for Broderbund for the Commodore 64)

Daily Stack: Tangible User Interface Exploration by Sebastian Ronde Theilke and Anders Homose

"Daily Stack is a playful tool that helps you become more aware of your daily work-flow and time management. By creating a physical representation of your tasks, Daily Stack speaks subtly to your conscience and helps you manage your time through unobtrusive ambient feedback"


Via Jeremy Perez-Cruz:

Daily Stack from Anders Højmose on Vimeo.

Jeremy also had a link to memoryhouse -nice music. (Jeremy is an art director at Anson Stoner.  His blog is Tea and Letter)

FTC's Proposal for Public Data Online: Boon for Interactive Infoviz and Multimedia Journalism?

I glanced at Nat Torkington's "Four Short Links: 31 May 2010" today and saw the link to the following publication:

Federal Trade Commission Staff Discussion Draft:  Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism (pdf)  I'll pick up on this topic in an update, but until then, here are some thoughts. (Be sure to watch Henry Jenkin's video below about the "new media landscape" for a good overview of this topic.)

There has been a push for the government to publish public data on-line, and have it accessible to anyone who wants to explore it further.  Interactive dataviz/infoviz strategies might help further one of the causes behind journalism - bringing the truth to the masses, and doing so in a way that "informs and enlightens".  Who is going to pay for this?

At any rate, the cry for publishing government data is not new.  Dr. Robert Kosara, an assistant professor of computer science at UNC-Charlotte, outlined his ideas about what this might be like in a post written in early 2009: A National Data Agency.  He created a logo for this effort:




One of Robert Kosara's related posts,  Visualization Sets Information Free, outlines how visualization tools can help us understand the numbers.  His post contains links to great information visualization resources that journalists, as well as anyone else interested in sniffing out and/or sharing truths, will appreciate. 


The infographic below is from Robert Kosara's blog post:

The problem is that there a many competing viewpoints among groups of people on the matter of the future of journalism.   There are those who would like to hold on to the past for the sake of the smell of a newspaper and how it fits into a morning routine, those who would like to hold on to the past for the sake of great journalism (think of the investigative journalism carried out when many newspapers had the money to support this work), those who would like to see everything go digital while keeping the best features of the newspapers (think of reading the NY Times on your iPad or e-book),  and those who would like a laisse-faire free-for-all.   

In my opinion, multi-media journalism, incorporating interactive information visualization, is something that I fully support.  New Media. Transmedia. Covergence.  The best of all worlds. Etc.     This can't happen if we don't have access to ALL of the data that we need!

RELATED
Henry Jenkins and Convergence Culture

"HCDMediaGroup — September 21, 2009 — Henry Jenkins, MIT Professor and author of "Convergence Culture" talks about the new media landscape. Highest Common Denominator Media Group"

Copy and Paste from Torkington's Four Short Links: 31 May 2010:

"Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism (PDF) -- FTC staff discussion document that floats a number of policy proposals around journalism: additional IP rights to defend against aggregators like Google News; protection of "hot news" facts; statutory limits to "fair use"; antitrust exemptions for cartel paywalls; and more. Jeff Jarvis hates it, but Alexander Howard found something to love in the proposal that the government "maximize the easy accessibility of government information" to help journalists find and investigate stories more easily. (via Jose Antonio Vargas)"

Need for Interactive Infoviz for the Finance Biz, Business Leaders, Government Officials, Educators, and the Rest of Us
This is a mega-post I wrote in February of 2009.  Good data and information visualization techniques, including interactive 3D simulations, might have been helpful to BP in looking at various scenarios during the planning and designing stages of the company's deep-sea drilling "adventure" in the Gulf of Mexico.

Off Topic: Reflecting on some of my top YouTube videos (includes video clips)

I rarely check the stats of my YouTube videos.  Today when I checked the stats, I was surprised to see that I have a nice following, without really trying.

I started uploading video clips to YouTube in 2006, to share vacation videos with family and friends.  This was before YouTube was bought out by Google. Nearly everything that I've "produced" myself was not done in HD. There were strict guidelines about the size of video uploads during the earlier years of YouTube, so my videos look pretty low-tech. Most are lightly edited, if at all.

I used YouTube to store a few video clips I made when I was taking computer courses (HCI, Ubicomp, etc.). Again, most of my video clips were less-than polished.

One of my secrets is that I do know how to produce/shoot/edit video.  This summer, I plan to re-do my most popular videos, and add some new ones that I'm sure my YouTube viewers will enjoy.

I have lots of HD video of vacations that I'd love to share! For now, take a look at my mostly low-def, low-tech "showcase":

Cute Kitty Video: My daughter's pets. I uploaded this for fun, and now it has over 210,000 views!


Monet's Gardens (no-music version)


Monet's Gardens, With Music (I added music from iMovie to the video after a request from a viewer.)


The following video one was taken by my younger daughter as we were driving to NYC in July of 2001, just two months before the 9/11/2001 tragedy. I was trying to figure out my route, my daughter was trying to capture video of the Twin Towers in the distance, and in the middle of it all, a huge plane flew across the highway.


My first attempt at a "travel" video clip:


Beach at St. Lucia
I have much better footage of this beach.


Cute Kitty Video: "Very Happy"
This is the "cute kitty" grown up a bit. The music is something that came with my Yamaha Motif keyboard. The "Very Happy" part of the music is a sampling from a voicemail message left to me by my daughter. This sample, among others, found a home in some music I composed/created but never quite finished.


This video was taken in Cozumel, just after the region experienced a devastating hurricane. I loved this music! The video was shot with my low-tech point-and shoot camera, and not edited, as you can see by the last frame of the video...


Labadie, Haiti:  We were on a cruise and Labadie was one of the ports.  This was taken before the earthquake.



I'm experimenting with "monetizing" some of my most popular YouTube videos. If you happen to see an ad related to any of my video clips on YouTube that is objectionable, please let me know.