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February 01, 11:41 PM
Light behaviour for Vodafone 360 Samsung H1 device
One of my projects at Vodafone’s User Experience team was looking after the Sound-Haptics-Light behaviour of the Vodafone 360 Samsung H1 device – this was later descoped to light behaviour only.
Design definition and specification for sensorial experiences like sound, haptics and light shouldn’t be done via Excel sheets or similar formats used in deliverables for other parts of the overall UI – this is like asking someone to take a Polaroid of a loved one’s laughter. Capturing a loved one’s laughter, not a picture of the person laughing. And so, I communicated the light behaviour concepts via video prototypes to show context of use, then I built a light prototype using a hacked IKEA light + Arduino board + VVVV software and used the physical prototype to come up with light behaviour of the device during incoming calls.
Later on, the Samsung team did create an interface on test devices that allowed us to adjust light settings to be able to derive light behaviour specifications for the final released product.
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February 01, 03:09 AM
24Shots: Applied Dreams for Orange
In an interconnected world full of changes, Lucia uses 24Shots to meet new friends in Milan and staying visible with the friends she had left behind in Barcelona. 24Shots prompts subscribers to take 24 shots over the course of a day on their camera phone. Their friends can team up to trigger the prompt at a time of their choosing.
‘Applied Dreams’ are two-week innovation workshops in which Interaction-Ivrea faculty and students collaborate with an industry partner. The aim of these workshops is to develop a range of future concepts for products and services. Working together with Huie Peh and Ana Huedo, as a student group we developed 24Shots for our industry partner: Orange/France Telecom.
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February 01, 03:07 AM
Philips Simplicity 2005
Commissioned by Philips Corporate Marketing, this project aimed to explore what the new brand promise of Sense and Simplicity meant in terms of design strategy, product development, interaction and product design, material and finishing.
The Next Simplicity project teams were divided into four domains, each corresponding to a Philips business. I was in the ‘Care’ group, for products in the Domestic Appliances and Personal Care domain. My role in the ‘Care’ group was Lead Interaction Designer, where, together with product designers, model-makers and engineers from Philips Applied Technologies, I designed the interactions and specified the product behavior. We designed and developed six product concepts, five of which were made into prototypes.
The end results were unveiled to the public at an event in L’Espace Grande, in Paris. Two books were published, that documented the project.
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February 01, 03:05 AM
Ambient Healthcare for Medical 2004
The scanning experience is often a stressful experience, for children and adults alike, and this solution aims to ease the patient’s worry by creating a comfortable environment, that is sensitive to the patient’s needs and personalised to their preferences. It combines architectural solutions with product, visual and interaction design solutions to create a seamless continuity between the pre-exam and the exam experience.
This is the second-generation Ambient Experience project to be done by Philips. My role in this project was lead interaction designer. I worked closely with moving image designers, in achieving all the visuals and animations for the environment, as well as product designers, for the tangible interactions, and supported by Flash developers and sound designers.
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February 01, 03:03 AM
Philips-Nike Portable Music Players
This was a fun project to do – the limited input/hardkey interaction, small screen, and context-of-use served as both design constraint and creative challenge. It was annoying when the Philips-Nike partnership ended but personally I think the Apple-Nike partnership makes more sense and enabled the product and service to go much further than what was achieved with Philips. -
February 01, 03:01 AM
Philips iPronto
This was a project commissioned by the Philips RCS business unit, to create the next generation Pronto remote control line. It’s a PC-tablet size universal remote control featuring a large color touch-screen, wireless Internet, and a central UI to control and organise your home theater products. The central UI is customisable according to a user’s needs and tastes.
In this project, I was involved in two phases: firstly, the Conceptualisation phase, where, together with the clients, we defined design directions and roadmap of the product, and creating a set of initial product directions and scenarios, then running through an initial series of user testing, done by human-factors experts within the project team. My additional role was to provide material for the user test.
Nearly a year later, I was involved in the Production phase of the project, delivering assets to the production/engineering teams to implement in the final product for manufacture. Although there were adjustments to be made, nearly all the design elements were fixed, and it was a matter of delivering the right files and assets according to specification.
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"You live your choices" - heads up #Jakartans, heavy traffic but moving, on #JORR both directions... #traffic #Jakarta #whatelseisnew14 hours ago from mobile web
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looks forward to tonight's "traveling without moving" session with friends :)14 hours ago from mobile web
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@moriza We were in Flores 2 weeks ago and LOVE it : )3 days ago from mobile web
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gets talked into a 65DoS gig in Milan in November by/with @presentday + @rrenzoo - I sort flights out, you sort tix out?3 days ago from mobile web
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@rrenzoo 65DoS in November in Milan? Exact dates please! Count me in!5 days ago from mobile web
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@rrenzoo hey! No, not heading back for another 3 weeks :) Can you squeeze a trip to me instead? :)18 days ago from twidroid
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On foggy mountain top, waiting for rain to stop - on an island where 3G is easier to get than ponchos or shampoo2 weeks ago from twidroid
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Memories of August 2009 via my @photojojo Time Capsule http://photojojo.com/timecapsule/miss_yasmina/2010-8-152 weeks ago from mobile web
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See you there - returning from SE Asia for this - RT @mtrends Just registered for PICNIC '10. Who's going? http://www.picnicnetwork.org3 weeks ago from twidroid
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@ZuliadyAzwin biasanya sih garing, tapi gw kan masih di Indo :)3 weeks ago from mobile web
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in Jakarta rush-hour traffic: 1 car w/5 people w/4 mobile screens - the only one not interacting w/a screen is the person driving...3 weeks ago from mobile web
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@jmacdonald Ouch! Feel better soon xx :)3 weeks ago from mobile web
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RT @miss_gachka Gen Y + beyond prize freedom + freedom of choice... want to customize things, make them their own http://bit.ly/9pS1b43 weeks ago from twidroid
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RT @rrenzoo: the self was becoming externally manufactured rather than internally developed: a series of profiles to be sculptured + refined3 weeks ago from twidroid
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August 13, 01:08 PM
Circadian Rhythm
Let’s talk more about circadian rhythm. Circadian rhythm involves all of the regions in the image above (side slice through the head), though the SCN seems particularly important as I mentioned yesterday. There is some evidence that introverts seem to be morning people, while extraverts are more likely to be night people. This suggests that circadian rhythm may have social aspects. Circadian rhythms can also be affected by external factors, perhaps most obviously travel. When your light/dark times shift, your circadian rhythm will also shift to accommodate. When your circadian rhythms are not at their best, your cognitive and physical performance will also not be at its best. For instance, pistol shooters who traveled long distance from Britain to New Zealand required eight days to adjust before they were back to their original performance (due to the need to completely change their circadian rhythms)- read it here. Circadian rhythms are absolutely critical to normal functioning.
One way to test circadian rhythms in their “natural state” is to put someone in a place without sunlight and allow their circadian rhythms to set on their own. Many studies have found that the sleep-wake cycle ends up somewhere around an average of 25 hours (varies from person to person), but other studies suggest that it averages about 24 hours- the same as most other species (see here). It is important to note that while I’ve spoken mostly in terms of sleep-wake, circadian rhythms also account for temperature variation, hormones during the day, and other forms of body control that need to change over the course of a “day” (I’m referring here to a 24-hour cycle).
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August 13, 12:28 PM
“A mixtape is more valuable gift than a spotify playlist because of that embedded value, because everyone knows how much work they are, of the care you have to take, because there is only one. If it gets lost it’s lost. Sharing physical goods is psychically harder than sharing information because goods are more valuable. And, therefore, presumably, the satisfactions of sharing them are greater. I bet there’s some sort of neurological/evolutionary trick in there, physical things will always feel more valuable to us because that’s what we’re used to, that’s what engages our senses. Even though ebooks are massively more convenient, usable and useful than paper ones, that lack of embodiedness nags away at us - telling us that this thing’s not real, not proper, not of value. (And maybe we don’t have the same effect with music because we’re less used to having music engage so many of our senses. It’s pretty unemboddied anyway.)”
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August 06, 09:46 PM
okjo:
i just found this interesting: (click the picture for in-depth descriptions)
These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD as part of a test conducted by the US government in the late 1950’s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject was the medic.
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June 03, 04:09 AM
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I have a growing fascination with the live human dissections on Anatomy For Beginners and brains, they’re beautiful
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June 02, 12:24 PM
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May 31, 03:46 AM
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I love this band! Vitalic, Second Lives video.
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May 30, 08:07 AM
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May 27, 10:48 AM
“BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company. In response, Twitter wants BP to shut down the oil leak that’s ruining the ocean.”
JIMMY FALLON, Late Night
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May 27, 05:56 AM
Mark Ellis: “Prince Holds the Katamari on His Shoulders”
I know you want it. Yes, I’m talking to you.
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Ya, I SO want this!
- May 25, 12:02 PM
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May 25, 11:58 AM
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May 25, 04:40 AM
NEVER FORGET (via honan.net)
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May 22, 12:04 PM
ngx:
Dexter: This is absolutely, without a doubt, the worst moment of my life.
Instructor: Now let’s go into a little free-form yoga. Just let yourself dance.
Dexter: I was wrong. This is.— Dexter, 3.03
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May 19, 11:10 AM
“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.”
Jonah Lehrer on Why we travel | Travel | The Observer
Originally shared on Facebook by the wonderful Huieee :)
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May 18, 10:45 AM
Caffeine may slow Alzheimer’s and other dementias
Key findings presented in “Therapeutic Opportunities for Caffeine in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases”:
- Multiple beneficial effects of caffeine to normalize brain function and prevent its degeneration
- Caffeine’s neuroprotective profile and its ability to reduce amyloid-beta production
- Caffeine as a candidate disease-modifying agent for Alzheimer’s disease
- Positive impact of caffeine on cognition and memory performance
- Identification of adenosine A2A receptors as the main target for neuroprotection afforded by caffeine consumption
- Confirmation of data through valuable meta-analyses presented
- Epidemiological studies corroborated by meta-analysis suggesting that caffeine may be protective against Parkinson’s disease
- Several methodological issues must be solved before advancing to decisive clinical trials
*goes to make self a good robust cuppa*
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May 17, 04:35 AM
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May 14, 08:10 AM
“My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can’t live without you. Once you’ve demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.”
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May 11, 11:20 AM
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Taste and supertasters (plus some ‘try this at home’ things!)
Taste is very simple. You can taste five things: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami. There have been other tastes proposed, such as that for fats (see this post). Everything you typically think of when you think of taste is actually flavor (“raspberry”, “vanilla”, etc.) and happens retronasally (the smell of food coming up your throat and to your nose). This is why if you have a cold and are congested, food won’t “taste” very good. You can do this experimentally by eating some jelly beans (the strawberry ones work super well). Plug your nose. Now, put the jelly bean in your mouth (make sure your nose is still plugged!!). Now start chewing. It just tastes sugary right? Now unplug your nose. Wow, right?
Supertasters (~25% of the population) are people with a lot more tastebuds per square inch as compared to medium taster (~50% of population) or nontasters (~25% of population) with much less tastebuds on the tongue. Chefs tend to be supertasters, so we think it relates to how well you can taste food and how sensitive you are to the tastes. (See the image above for the difference in supertasters and nontasters.) To find out if you are a supertaster, get some blue food coloring (don’t worry, it won’t hurt you). Spread the blue food coloring on your tongue with a Q-tip. Close your mouth and reopen it (to get rid of excess blue food coloring). Now look in the mirror. All your tastebuds should be really obvious. Cool, isn’t it?
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May 08, 07:42 AM
Catrina Dulay: “In A Perfect World”
If we must continue to endure these bugbears, at least we do so together.
[geekiz.]
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Recent tracks
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Cold Water Music by Aim2 months ago
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Chemical Chords by Stereolab2 months ago
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Blasted Wook by Luke Vibert2 months ago
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Bend Over by Wagon Christ2 months ago
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Bananeira - Rae & Christian remix by Bebel Gilberto2 months ago
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The Seed (2.0) by The Roots2 months ago
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Astounded by Bran Van 30002 months ago
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Hold My Hand by UNKLE2 months ago
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Relaxin' With Cherry by Kid Loco2 months ago
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Why Did We Fire The Gun by Waldeck2 months ago
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