Nov 24, 2010
The Clock is Ticking: Duarte's thought-provoking video info-graphic about the negative impact of the economy in Long Island (via Innovative Interactivity)
The Clock is Ticking from Long Island Index on Vimeo.
I came across the above video infographic on the Tracy Boyer's Innovative Interactivity blog. In a few minutes, it tells a story about how the economic downturn has impacted Long Island.
My take-away from the video? We are not provided an accurate or meaningful picture from traditional media sources about our nation's economic woes. It is a good sign that the stock market is doing better, on balance, than in 2008, but the economic wounds run wide and deep. These wounds need to be counted and presented in a way that makes sense to policy makers AND the rest of us! If not, the cycle will repeat.
Tracy discovered the video from a post on the Simple Complexity website:
The Clock is Ticking On Long Island: Infographic Video
Neal Levene, Simple Complexity, 11/22/10
"Simple Complexity: Making Simple Sense From Complex Data"
The video was created by Duarte, a company that focuses on visual means of information presentation. Duarte is known for supporting presentation literacy using VisualStory methodology.
Comment: Wouldn't it be great if we could simply load data related to our own communities and regions and have it automatically feed into this sort of video info-graphic?!
Microsoft Surface Light and Physics App for Kids at the Smithsonian
Microsoft Surface at the Smithsonian
The Surface is located in the Smithsonian's Castle, and is part of "The Wonder of Light: Touch and Learn!" exhibit, which opened on Tuesday, November 9th (2010). Microsoft donated the Surface unit to the Smithsonian.
Below is slideshow of the interactive exhibit:
The video below provides a closer look at the applications created by Infostrat for the Smithsonian exhibit:
RELATED
New Interactive Exhibit Opens in Smithsonian's Castle, Bringing Light To Life
Smithsonian News Release, 11/9/20
Josh Blake's post, Microsoft Surface and Magical Object Interaction.
The Surface is located in the Smithsonian's Castle, and is part of "The Wonder of Light: Touch and Learn!" exhibit, which opened on Tuesday, November 9th (2010). Microsoft donated the Surface unit to the Smithsonian.
Below is slideshow of the interactive exhibit:
The video below provides a closer look at the applications created by Infostrat for the Smithsonian exhibit:
RELATED
New Interactive Exhibit Opens in Smithsonian's Castle, Bringing Light To Life
Smithsonian News Release, 11/9/20
Josh Blake's post, Microsoft Surface and Magical Object Interaction.
Nov 23, 2010
First International Visual Learning Lab Conference: Background Info, Program, Abstracts, & Publication Links (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Background:
I first came across the work of Hungarian philosopher Kristóf Nyíri in 2003 when I was researching information related to a paper I was writing - "Thinking, learning, and communicating with multimedia". I had the honor of meeting Kristof Nyiri when I presented my paper at a conference in 2004 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where Kristóf Nyiri worked at the time. The conference, "The Global and the Local in Mobile Communications: Places, Images, People, Connections" was co-sponsored by T-Mobile and was part of the Communications in the 21st Century: The Mobile Information Society series of interdisciplinary conferences.
I recently learned that Dr. Nyiri was involved in putting together an upcoming international conference hosted by the Visual Learning Lab at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. This important conference is coming up very soon, on December 1st!
Visual and interactive media technologies have come a long way since 2004. In my opinion, these technologies have the potential to create new, efficient, engaging, and meaningful ways for people to learn, remember, communicate, and share knowledge. I'm not alone in my thoughts regarding this matter, as you'll see from the topics that will be discussed at the VLL conference.
For your convenience, I've shared some information from the Visual Learning Lab (VLL) website in this post. I encourage you to take the time to read the VLL mission statement, selected publications of some of the members of the VLL, and the abstracts of the presentations for the upcoming conference. The abstracts include short bios of the presenters.
Be prepared to do some deep thinking when you read Kristóf Nyiri's publications!
Mission Statement of the Visual Learning Lab
I first came across the work of Hungarian philosopher Kristóf Nyíri in 2003 when I was researching information related to a paper I was writing - "Thinking, learning, and communicating with multimedia". I had the honor of meeting Kristof Nyiri when I presented my paper at a conference in 2004 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where Kristóf Nyiri worked at the time. The conference, "The Global and the Local in Mobile Communications: Places, Images, People, Connections" was co-sponsored by T-Mobile and was part of the Communications in the 21st Century: The Mobile Information Society series of interdisciplinary conferences.
I recently learned that Dr. Nyiri was involved in putting together an upcoming international conference hosted by the Visual Learning Lab at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. This important conference is coming up very soon, on December 1st!
Visual and interactive media technologies have come a long way since 2004. In my opinion, these technologies have the potential to create new, efficient, engaging, and meaningful ways for people to learn, remember, communicate, and share knowledge. I'm not alone in my thoughts regarding this matter, as you'll see from the topics that will be discussed at the VLL conference.
For your convenience, I've shared some information from the Visual Learning Lab (VLL) website in this post. I encourage you to take the time to read the VLL mission statement, selected publications of some of the members of the VLL, and the abstracts of the presentations for the upcoming conference. The abstracts include short bios of the presenters.
Be prepared to do some deep thinking when you read Kristóf Nyiri's publications!
Mission Statement of the Visual Learning Lab
"Although we naturally think in both words and images, educational theory has focused overwhelmingly on the verbal dimensions of teaching and learning. This is in part a reflection of the rise of book printing: pictures receded into the background, even in spite of efforts by Comenius and others to integrate them into texts created for educational purposes. In today's networked digital environment, however, images are easy to access, and can be handled just as smoothly as words. In response to the new challenges hereby created, the Department of Technical Education in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics has established the Visual Learning Lab (VLL), with the goal of furthering the use of visual technologies -- including film, video, and interactive digital media -- in the teaching and learning process, and of engaging in high-level research on all aspects of visual education."
VLL Publications (PDF)
- Anna Győrfi, Ian Smythe, "Re-engaging the SEN Child into Learning through Social Networking", (2009)
- Kristóf Nyíri, "The Picture Theory of Reason", (2000)
- Kristóf Nyíri, "Pictorial Meaning and Mobile Communication" (2003)
- Kristóf Nyíri, "From Texts to Pictures: The New Unity of Science", (2003)
- Kristóf Nyíri, "Visualization and the Limits of Scientific Realism", (2008)
- Kristóf Nyíri, "Gombrich on Image and Time", (2009)
| Visual Learning Bibilography A working bibliography compiled by VLL Budapest participants (Stand Jan. 31, 2010,  )Program for the December 1st VLL Conference Written by Horváth Cz. János |
| Monday, 08 November 2010 12:34 |
Visual Learning (1st VLL Budapest Conference, 2010)Registration09:30 – 09:50, Opening addresses Plenary Session10:00 – 10:20: Roger Murphy, The Visual Enrichment of Higher Education ( )10:20 – 10:40: Christoph Wagner, Visual Experiences in Art History ( )10:40 – 11:00: Petra Aczél, Enchanting Bewilderment: Concerns of Visual Rhetoric ( )Section A11:10 – 11:30: Gabriella Németh, The Visual Rhetorical Figures of the Giant Billboard „ARC” (Face) Exhibition ( )11:30 – 11:50: Ágnes Veszelszki, Image and Self-representation ( )11:50 – 12:10: Anna Szlávi, The Image of Women: A Conceptual Analysis of Commercial Posters ( )12:10 – 12:30: Zsuzsanna Kemenesi, Selection by Personalization ( )Section B11:10 – 11:30: György Molnár, Images, Charts, and the Flow of Knowledge ( )11:30 – 11:50: János Cz. Horváth, Pictorial Skills in the Service of Knowledge-Digging ( )11:50 – 12:10: Franz Dotter – Marlene Hilzensauer, "SignOnOne" – Visual learning for the Deaf ( )12:10 – 12:30: Jean-Rémi Lapaire, Visuo-kinetic Explorations of Grammar ( )12:30 – 14:00: Lunch 14:00 – 14:20: John Mullarkey, Cinema: The Animals that Therefore We Are (On Temple Grandin's Picture Theory, in Pictures) ( )14:20 – 14:40: Zoltán Kövecses, Contextual Images As Metaphors ( )Section A14:50 – 15:10: Kristóf Nyíri, Metaphor and Visual Thinking ( )15:10 – 15:30: Mikkel R. Haaheim, Metaphor is a Constellation ( )15:30 – 15:50: Biljana Radić-Bojanić, Mental Images as a Metaphorical Vocabulary Learning Strategy ( )15:50 – 16:10: Barbara Reiter, Visualizing Human Rights (movie) ( )Section B14:50 – 15:10: Gábor Bencsik, The Image-Anthropological Approach to Historiography: Gypsies in 19th-Century Hungary ( )15:10 – 15:30: Zsuzsanna Kondor, "World Picture" and Beyond – Representation Revisited ( )15:30 – 15:50: Daniela G. Camhy, Visuality and the Acquisition of the Concept of Time () 15:50 – 16:10: Anna Somfai, Visual Thinking and the Creation and Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts ( )Plenary Session16:20 – 16:40: Dieter Mersch, On Visual Epistemology: The Logic of "Showing" ( |
Light Touch Interactive Projector; Holographic Laser Projection (HLP) "How it Works": Update on Light Blue Optics (Videos, links)
It has been about a year since I wrote about Light Blue Optics, "a privately-funded company developing and supplying miniature projection systems for use in high volume applications in markets including automotive, digital signage and consumer electronics." Light Blue Optics is located in Cambridge, UK, and has a development facility in Colorado Springs.
Light Touch Interactive Projector
Holographic Laser Projection (HLP): How it Works
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A Touch Screen Table
Brendan O'Brian, QSR 11/23/10
Roland Gribben, The Telegraph 10/11/10
HLP technology, and how it can be used for practical purposes, is further explained in the following white papers:
Buckley, E., Lacoste, L., Stindt, D. Rear-view virtual image displays. SID (Society for Information Display), Vehicles and Photons - 16th Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays, 10/15/09
Abstract: "Light Blue Optics holographic laser projection technology can be utilised to create a virtual image display which, with a volume enclosing less than 700cc, exhibits a form-factor consistent with integration into a rear-view mirror. By combining the visual accommodation and concomitant reaction time benefits of a head-up display with the ability to present high resolution safety-critical information in a rear-view off-axis configuration with large eyebox, significant potential safety benefits can result."
Buckley, E., Tindt, D., Isele, R. Novel Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Design Enabled by Holographic Laser Projection SID 2009 Symposium, 6/2/09
Light Touch Interactive Projector
Holographic Laser Projection (HLP): How it Works
RELATED
A Touch Screen Table
Brendan O'Brian, QSR 11/23/10
"Light Blue Optics, which rolled out the Light Touch in January, is working with several restaurant chains to put its technology on tables...“You can project menus onto the table so the customer can sit down and order their meal,” says Tamara Roukaerts, director of marketing communications at Light Blue Optics. “They can also watch videos of the chef preparing their meal through a live video feed.”"
Light Blue Optics turns KFC tables into touch screensRoland Gribben, The Telegraph 10/11/10
HLP technology, and how it can be used for practical purposes, is further explained in the following white papers:
Buckley, E., Lacoste, L., Stindt, D. Rear-view virtual image displays. SID (Society for Information Display), Vehicles and Photons - 16th Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays, 10/15/09
Abstract: "Light Blue Optics holographic laser projection technology can be utilised to create a virtual image display which, with a volume enclosing less than 700cc, exhibits a form-factor consistent with integration into a rear-view mirror. By combining the visual accommodation and concomitant reaction time benefits of a head-up display with the ability to present high resolution safety-critical information in a rear-view off-axis configuration with large eyebox, significant potential safety benefits can result."
Buckley, E., Tindt, D., Isele, R. Novel Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Design Enabled by Holographic Laser Projection SID 2009 Symposium, 6/2/09
Abstract: "Despite the current proliferation of in-car flat panel displays, designers continue to investigate alternatives to flat and rectangular thin-film transistor (TFT) panels – principally to obtain differentiation by freedom of design using, for example, free-form shapes, round displays, flexible displays or mechanical 3D solutions. A perfect demonstration was provided at the 2008 Paris Motor Show by the BMW Mini Center Globe, a novel instrument cluster design which combines lighting, a circular flat panel and a holographic laser projector provided by Light Blue Optics (LBO) to redefine the state of the art in human-machine interface (HMI)...In this paper, the authors will show how the incorporation of LBO’s holographic laser projection technology can allow the construction of a unique display technology like the Mini Center Globe, and how such a combination of technologies represents a significant advance in the current state of the art in automotive displays."
The Story Behind this Post
I was having one of my occasional vivid "technology dreams" just before my dog woke me up in the middle of the night tonight. I was driving around in a futuristic car that had all sorts of cool technologies, including a holographic side-view mirror, similar to the one I blogged about in a 2009 post about Blue Light Optics. This inspired me take a quick look at what the company is doing now.
The dream that entertained me tonight was probably triggered by what I read just before I went to sleep- a call for papers posted by Albrecht Schmidt on Facebook: "Call for Papers - Theme Issue on Automotive User Interfaces, for an upcoming edition of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. If you are curious, here's an example of one of my blog posts that was inspired by one of my geek-tech-dreams: "Last Night I Dreamt about Haptic Touch Screen Overlays".
I was having one of my occasional vivid "technology dreams" just before my dog woke me up in the middle of the night tonight. I was driving around in a futuristic car that had all sorts of cool technologies, including a holographic side-view mirror, similar to the one I blogged about in a 2009 post about Blue Light Optics. This inspired me take a quick look at what the company is doing now.
The dream that entertained me tonight was probably triggered by what I read just before I went to sleep- a call for papers posted by Albrecht Schmidt on Facebook: "Call for Papers - Theme Issue on Automotive User Interfaces, for an upcoming edition of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. If you are curious, here's an example of one of my blog posts that was inspired by one of my geek-tech-dreams: "Last Night I Dreamt about Haptic Touch Screen Overlays".
Nov 21, 2010
Telling a Story: Slideshow of Old/Historical Content
I don't usually share much about my family on this blog, but I was so impressed by my daughter's photos of historical and old/run-down structures that I had to post a slideshow of what she's passionate about.
Lauren is a history buff and enjoys exploring around to take pictures of anything old that has a story. Whatever it takes!
The photos in the slideshow were taken with a Sony SLR, with no extra equipment. None of the photos are photo-shopped.
Lauren is great at "point and shoot", and her technique draws the viewer in to her personal POV. Lauren just had a little baby, so it might be a little while until she can finish researching the stories behind her photos. When she does, I'll be sure to share her finished work!
(If you were wondering, Lauren stopped going on risky explorations after she learned a baby was on the way.)
Lauren is a history buff and enjoys exploring around to take pictures of anything old that has a story. Whatever it takes!
The photos in the slideshow were taken with a Sony SLR, with no extra equipment. None of the photos are photo-shopped.
Lauren is great at "point and shoot", and her technique draws the viewer in to her personal POV. Lauren just had a little baby, so it might be a little while until she can finish researching the stories behind her photos. When she does, I'll be sure to share her finished work!
(If you were wondering, Lauren stopped going on risky explorations after she learned a baby was on the way.)
Digital Newspaper from News Corp, for the iPad (via physorg, Guardian)
iPad 'newspaper created by Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch
Apple and News Corp reportedly set to launch joint iPad news publication exclusively via download Edward Helmore, Guardian Weekender, 11/21/10
"According to the US elite fashion industry journal Women's Wear Daily, the Murdoch-Jobs "newspaper" will be run from the 26th floor of the News Corp offices in New York, where 100 journalist have been hired, including Pete Picton, an online editor from the Sun, as one of three managing editors. The editor of the Daily has not been announced, but observers are assuming it will be Jesse Angelo, the managing editor of the New York Post and rising star in the News Corp firmament." -Edward Helmore
Rupert Murdoch Does Another Daily
John Koblin, WWD 11/19/10
Website: Media magnate Murdoch preps digital newspaper for iPad
Craig Johnson, CNN 11/21/10
SOMEWHAT RELATED
Here's a video clip of a recent interview of Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Chairman & CEO discusses countries with the greatest growth for business. "Our best growth industry is in this country (US)" (Rupert Murdoch reportedly admires Steve Job and likes the iPad.)
Apple and News Corp reportedly set to launch joint iPad news publication exclusively via download Edward Helmore, Guardian Weekender, 11/21/10
"According to the US elite fashion industry journal Women's Wear Daily, the Murdoch-Jobs "newspaper" will be run from the 26th floor of the News Corp offices in New York, where 100 journalist have been hired, including Pete Picton, an online editor from the Sun, as one of three managing editors. The editor of the Daily has not been announced, but observers are assuming it will be Jesse Angelo, the managing editor of the New York Post and rising star in the News Corp firmament." -Edward Helmore
Rupert Murdoch Does Another Daily
John Koblin, WWD 11/19/10
Website: Media magnate Murdoch preps digital newspaper for iPad
Craig Johnson, CNN 11/21/10
SOMEWHAT RELATED
Here's a video clip of a recent interview of Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Chairman & CEO discusses countries with the greatest growth for business. "Our best growth industry is in this country (US)" (Rupert Murdoch reportedly admires Steve Job and likes the iPad.)
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