Motion for Interface: a Taxonomy; Elaine Froehlich

yesterday my Master's thesis on motion in interface (from the Dynamic Media Institute at MassArt) was honored as a runner-up in the Core77 Design Awards, Strategy/Research category. additional information, the thesis pdf and some samples of the research projects can be found on my web site, activesurface.com/core77. I posted some example video from the thesis and some experimental videos that informed the work but weren't included in the document. the thesis document is available there for download if you are interested. it has a creative commons license so you can use any parts if you like as long as you don't change it and give it due credit.

When to Trust Your Gut

As you accumulate knowledge—whether it's about what books your spouse likes or how to play chess—you begin to recognize patterns. Your brain unconsciously organizes these patterns into blocks of information—a process the late social scientist Herbert Simon, PhD, called chunking. Over time your brain chunks and links more and more patterns, then stores these clusters of knowledge in your long-term memory. When you see a tiny detail of a familiar design, you instantly recognize the larger composition—and that's what we regard as a flash of intuition.

Look up Herbert Simon for deeper information.

source: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/The-Science-of-Intuition

Let Intuition Be Your Guide

Let Intuition Be Your Guide

Posted by Editor on Jul 09 2010

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The saying, “going with your gut” should probably be more along the lines of, “going with your brain” as researchers start to unravel exactly where that feeling of intuition stems from. They found that as our brains take in information we start to spot patterns of behaviors, events, causes, results and other repeat situations. Our brain takes these patterns and files them into logical groups in a process called chunking. When we use our intuition to help us come up with the answer to something what we are doing is accessing chunks that relate to the situation in question and using the pattern information stored inside them to judge against the pattern in the present.

“Over time your brain chunks and links more and more patterns, then stores these clusters of knowledge in your long-term memory. When you see a tiny detail of a familiar design, you instantly recognize the larger composition—and that’s what we regard as a flash of intuition…”

Read up on when and how to use your intuition

Is there a time you remember your intuition being right on?


from Tony Robbins Valentines day blog post: http://love.tonyrobbins.com/

Lucy and Bart augmenting human evolution with low tech processes

see their blog for photos, strange and creepy but also beautiful.

Providence dancing traffic cop

The Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking: informational design and animation

44 of film's most evil villans

this makes a very nice presentation of a lot of footage from different films in a way that feels very solid. the sound track is a huge help.

video about time

the secret powers of time a video on human perceptions of time

thing to check out

the ambient orb

apple human interface guidelines
apple user experience website

check out what else is happening in HCI.

minimal mac from a link on andrew's blog.
Geektool an Apple tool to configure things on your desktop.

Stuart Anstis motion studies in how the brain interprets value into motion.

Jeff Han touch wall.
Another video wall example.

student using paper prototypes to mock up interfaces

some things change by chris pullman.

find research on motion for pilots

natural user interface group. check this out for info about multi touch tables.

search for MT mini prototype.

video of an imaginary holographic 3d creation interface that opens virtual palettes almost anywhere and supports dynamically moving interactions with at least some ability to focus on the tiniest of details. uses motion as part of the interface in amazing ways.

street games enhanced environments that you can play in.

David Small design ecology design that can react to changing environments. Read here about research projects going on at the media lab.

Brian Eno and cybernetics is an article about the influence cybernetics and systems thinking had on Brian Eno's music. he started in a class where his thinking was challenged with group collaborations and rules. from that his approach included open rules-based approaches to his compositions.

Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies cards is a set of cards that encourage people to think differently when they get stuck on a creative (?) project.

police dance

I thought tractor dance was amazing but the police motorcycle dance here is at least as amazing.

self publishing web site

blurb.com a place to self publish books, one book or several. they do photos.

new order, true faith has interesting rotating plane in front of a guy's eyes, in the last few seconds. starts as a vertical plane and ends as a horizontal line. could be a way to connect larger amounts of information onto a source bit.

bldr web site a web site for finding or donating information on making things. check it out.