Nov 10, 2011
Nov 5, 2011
Building Interfaces for the New Decade: Conference at the Tech Museum, San Jose, California
Here is information about a day-long conference that I'm sure will be well worth attending:
If you can't make it to San Jose, the conference can be attended "virtually". You can register for the conference via the EventBright website.
Here is the list of speakers and presentations for the conference:
Tamara Schwarz, Senior Manager of Experience Design, Chabot Space & Science Center
"RFID-enabled Interactive Exhibits, or... What's a warehouse inventory management technology doing in an interactive science center?"
Christopher Stapleton, Creative Venture Catalyst, Simiosys
"The Phydgital InterSpace -The Next Generation of Museum User Experience and Workshop: Experiential Makeover for Learning"
Jim Spadaccini, Director, Ideum; Principal Investigator, Open Exhibits
"Open Exhibits - Community Software for Multi-touch and Motion Recognition"
Rick Ernst, Lead Designer, Ogmento
"How to get People off the Couch and Interact with the World with Augmented Reality Games"
Bob Ketner, Curator, The Tech Test Zone
"The Tech Virtual and The Tech Test Zone Open Platforms"
John MacDuffie Woodburn, Co-Developer, Pixel, and Graduate Student, University of the Arts, PA, & Matt Miller, Co-Developer, Pixel
"Pixel - Using Eye Tracking to Engage and Educate Your Audience"
Ross Smith, Ph.D, Deputy Director, Wearable Computer Laboratory, University of South Australia
"Bringing Fingertip Sculpting Techniques to the Digital Artist"
Below is an excerpt from the conference website:
"Join us on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 for a gathering of the most innovative developers of new interactive technologies at The Tech Museum's Test Zone 2011...Connect with entrepreneurs, developers, and researchers working on cutting-edge interfaces such as:
Augmented Reality
Context Aware
Deformable Surfaces
Eye Tracking
Feedback
Gestural Interfaces
Gigapixel Images
Motion Sensing
Multi-touch
Natural User Interfaces
RFID
Smart Museum Systems
Tablet Computers
Ubiquitous Media
Find out how museums and other public-space designers can use these technologies to enhance visitor learning and experience. Experience the interactives firsthand at the opening of The Tech Test Zone Gallery, a new gallery dedicated to temporary exhibitions of prototypes from corporate, academic, and nonprofit partners."
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Hack the Future Day at the Tech Museum
November 15, 2011 (Tuesday)
San Jose, California
If you can't make it to San Jose, the conference can be attended "virtually". You can register for the conference via the EventBright website.
Here is the list of speakers and presentations for the conference:
Tamara Schwarz, Senior Manager of Experience Design, Chabot Space & Science Center
"RFID-enabled Interactive Exhibits, or... What's a warehouse inventory management technology doing in an interactive science center?"
Christopher Stapleton, Creative Venture Catalyst, Simiosys
"The Phydgital InterSpace -The Next Generation of Museum User Experience and Workshop: Experiential Makeover for Learning"
Jim Spadaccini, Director, Ideum; Principal Investigator, Open Exhibits
"Open Exhibits - Community Software for Multi-touch and Motion Recognition"
Rick Ernst, Lead Designer, Ogmento
"How to get People off the Couch and Interact with the World with Augmented Reality Games"
Bob Ketner, Curator, The Tech Test Zone
"The Tech Virtual and The Tech Test Zone Open Platforms"
John MacDuffie Woodburn, Co-Developer, Pixel, and Graduate Student, University of the Arts, PA, & Matt Miller, Co-Developer, Pixel
"Pixel - Using Eye Tracking to Engage and Educate Your Audience"
Ross Smith, Ph.D, Deputy Director, Wearable Computer Laboratory, University of South Australia
"Bringing Fingertip Sculpting Techniques to the Digital Artist"
Below is an excerpt from the conference website:
"Join us on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 for a gathering of the most innovative developers of new interactive technologies at The Tech Museum's Test Zone 2011...Connect with entrepreneurs, developers, and researchers working on cutting-edge interfaces such as:
Augmented Reality
Context Aware
Deformable Surfaces
Eye Tracking
Feedback
Gestural Interfaces
Gigapixel Images
Motion Sensing
Multi-touch
Natural User Interfaces
RFID
Smart Museum Systems
Tablet Computers
Ubiquitous Media
Find out how museums and other public-space designers can use these technologies to enhance visitor learning and experience. Experience the interactives firsthand at the opening of The Tech Test Zone Gallery, a new gallery dedicated to temporary exhibitions of prototypes from corporate, academic, and nonprofit partners."
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About the Tech Museum:
"The Tech Museum is a hands-on technology and science museum for people of all ages and backgrounds. The museum-located in the Capital of Silicon Valley -is a non-profit learning resource established to engage people in exploring and experiencing technologies affecting their lives. Through programs such as The Tech Challenge presented by Cisco, our annual team design competition for youth, and internationally renowned programs such as The Tech Awards presented by Applied Materials, Inc., The Tech Museum celebrates the present and encourages the development of innovative ideas for a more promising future." -Tech Museum YouTube Channel
Hack the Future Day at the Tech Museum
GOOGLE CHROME WEB STORE: All sorts of apps, educational and more!
I'll have to admit, I no longer consider myself an early adopter. I put off exploring the Google Chrome Web Store until.... today. Most of my recent explorations have centered on discovering great apps for my iDevices, but since I'm a cross-platform, cross-device, transmedia type of person, I could not neglect the world of interactive web apps!
Here is a screen shot of the educational web apps from the Google Chrome Web Store:
After you select a few web apps, you can access them from your Chrome browser by selecting a new tab or new window. The screen shot below shows the apps I've currently chosen to explore:
I have an HP TouchSmart, and I found that many of the web app worked out OK with touch interaction, even 3D "rotate and pan". My hunch is that many of the web apps will work fine on an interactive whiteboard.
I took a quick look at the MeeGenius! Children's Books interactive web app and was pleasantly surprised. This web app is a talking book that highlights each word as it is spoken. A human voice is used for the narration.
I'm looking forward to getting into work early on Monday to see what web apps work well on the SMARTboard!
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Free Education Apps from Google's New Chrome Web Store
The Yellin Center for Mind, Brain, and Education, 2/9/11
Below is a list of educational Chrome apps recommended in the above linked post:
Plinks and Tonecraft - two music tools for Chrome
Danny Nicholson, The Whiteboard Blog 10/11/11
Dinahmoe Labs (creators of Plink and Tonecraft)
The Whiteboard Blog
Here is a screen shot of the educational web apps from the Google Chrome Web Store:
After you select a few web apps, you can access them from your Chrome browser by selecting a new tab or new window. The screen shot below shows the apps I've currently chosen to explore:
I took a quick look at the MeeGenius! Children's Books interactive web app and was pleasantly surprised. This web app is a talking book that highlights each word as it is spoken. A human voice is used for the narration.
I'm looking forward to getting into work early on Monday to see what web apps work well on the SMARTboard!
RELATED and SOMEWHAT RELATED
Free Education Apps from Google's New Chrome Web Store
The Yellin Center for Mind, Brain, and Education, 2/9/11
Below is a list of educational Chrome apps recommended in the above linked post:
- Planetarium –an interactive star map for kids (or adults!) interested in astronomy
- Google Books – millions of free e-books in a plethora of subjects
- 3DTin – A realistic 3D model-maker
- MathBoard – a math learning tool appropriate for elementary and kindergarten students
- MeeGenuis! Children’s Books – personalized, “enhanced” web books for younger students
- LucidChart – a collaborative diagramming tool, not unlike Inspiration or MindManager
- Picnik Photo Editor – web-based photo manipulation a la Photoshop
- 20 Things I Learned about Browsers & the Web – a great introduction to how the internet works
- Springpad – note-taking tool that can incorporate assignments, photos, to-do lists, etc.
- Bomomo – an innovative illustration and drawing tool
- A variety of flashcard-based apps which can aid memory, vocabulary, math skills and more
Plinks and Tonecraft - two music tools for Chrome
Danny Nicholson, The Whiteboard Blog 10/11/11
Dinahmoe Labs (creators of Plink and Tonecraft)
The Whiteboard Blog
Nov 4, 2011
Le Chal: Smart shoes for the visually impaired, with haptic//vibrational feedback, sensors and GPS
Le Chal is a haptic/vibrational feedback shoe designed for the blind and visually impaired, on of the projects of Anirudh Sharma, a member of the NUI Group (Natural User Interface). Le Chal was conceptualized at the 2011 MIT Media Lab Design and Innovation Workshop at COEP.
Take me there Shoe/ Le Chal
Shoe for visually impaired - Le Chal Himanshu Khanna, 10/31/11
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Oct 29, 2011
Interactive Large Displays in Urban Spaces: Communicating Energy Usage through Duke Energy's "Smart Energy Now" Project
On October 28th, the Envision Charlotte project was launched during a celebration at Two Wells Fargo Plaza in uptown Charlotte. As part of the celebration, interactive displays were turned on as part of an effort to establish Charlotte as the "most sustainable urban core in the country". Although this is a lofty goal, it is important.
Although I am a little disappointed that I missed the Envision Charlotte launch party, I was happy to learn that I how interactive technology will play a role in helping people support the goals of Envision Charlotte and Duke Energy's Smart Energy Now campaign:
According to information from the Smart Energy NowSM blog, large interactive display kiosks in urban spaces will encourage a large number of people to make simple changes in their daily work lives by showing the correlation between their actions and energy consumption. "The kiosks will be in approximately 70 buildings in uptown Charlotte. More than 80,000 employees will be able to visualize real-time energy usage as a single number — a number that could lead to real change in the way Uptown uses energy." 35 buildings were installed with 47-inch displays during the first phase of this endeavor, with more planned for the near future.
It is possible that this effort might help to decrease energy use within the uptown business section by 20% over the next five years.
Video: Envision Charlotte-Uniting for a Sustainable City
I'll bring my video camera the next time I visit Uptown Charlotte to get a closer view of the interactive displays!
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Uptown Workers to be key players in green initiative
The Smart Energy Now program sponsors are Cisco, Verizon, and Duke Energy.
Smart Energy Blog
Envision Charlotte
Although I am a little disappointed that I missed the Envision Charlotte launch party, I was happy to learn that I how interactive technology will play a role in helping people support the goals of Envision Charlotte and Duke Energy's Smart Energy Now campaign:
According to information from the Smart Energy NowSM blog, large interactive display kiosks in urban spaces will encourage a large number of people to make simple changes in their daily work lives by showing the correlation between their actions and energy consumption. "The kiosks will be in approximately 70 buildings in uptown Charlotte. More than 80,000 employees will be able to visualize real-time energy usage as a single number — a number that could lead to real change in the way Uptown uses energy." 35 buildings were installed with 47-inch displays during the first phase of this endeavor, with more planned for the near future.
It is possible that this effort might help to decrease energy use within the uptown business section by 20% over the next five years.
Video: Envision Charlotte-Uniting for a Sustainable City
I'll bring my video camera the next time I visit Uptown Charlotte to get a closer view of the interactive displays!
RELATED
Uptown Workers to be key players in green initiative
The Smart Energy Now program sponsors are Cisco, Verizon, and Duke Energy.
Smart Energy Blog
Envision Charlotte
Oct 28, 2011
Quick Link: iPads and Autism- 60 Minutes Segment
Take a few minutes to watch the 60 Minutes segment about iPad apps and autism!
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385686n
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385686n
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