Mark Coleran demo reel

Mark Coleran makes interfaces for movies that move and pulse and twirl in ways that feel like interfaces ought to work. this reel has intriguing movement ideas to study. you can back out to his home page at www.coleran.com to look at the large reel if you want to see the big version.

some ideas to look for:

scaling
rotating in 3D space
sliders
mac dock is notify when an icon appears

any simple animation showing a process would qualify as instruct

this video talks about gestures on tabletop mulit-touch tables and gives some details about how the tools work and some of the features included in selecting, copying, cutting and pasting. this is a very nice explanation of the interface on this multi-touch screen; more functional than the normal eye candy that gets shown in the publicity videos. the tabletop is from the University of Toronto and the Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab. I need to give a shout out to Jan, who commented on a previous post and left his blog address iatelevision.com.

toronto_multi
note to self: add to matris: context, possibly related. think about different function for this.

watch the content of web pages flow in slow motion

these videos show mozilla.org, googleco.jp and wilipedia page content flowing slowly enough on a page that you can see the ordering and repositioning of the pieces.

internet neutrality - updated with video by Tim Berners-Lee

a few days ago, I posted a video on net neutrality and asked if anyone knew if the warning about the loss of access was true. today I found (at iatelevision.com) this video from Tim Berners-Lee clarifying his point of view on net neutrality. watch this. here are some quotes from the video. I edited this a little out of order but I hope I haven't altered the message.

"The US House seems to have wavered from the path of preserving net neutrality... even though it's against the long-term interests of the industry.

In the US, the threat is that companies will control what I can access for commercial reasons.

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet and now is the basis of the society we've built on the internet. Let's see whether the United States is capable of acting in accordance with it's fundamental values. Or is it, as some people have been saying, run by the misguided short-term interests of large companies. I hope Congress can protect net neutrality so I can continue to innovate in the internet space. I want to go on seeing the huge number of innovations which are happening out there and which are so diverse and so exciting. I want to see that continue unabated."





2012: The Year The Internet Ends

do any of you know if this is true or not?

interactive multi-touch table

here is an example of a multi-user, multi-touch table display with things moving around all over the place.