Oct 16
Internet is the current public town square. Gary visualized how much we share.
Aug 18
KidZui is building a safe internet-experience for children. First they build the kids-safe browser “KidZui”, and now ZuiTube.
full article @ CNN
Jul 16
Great web app: Draw a symbol, search engine looks up the Latex-code. Very handy for my current thesis chapter with lots of equations.
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
Thanks@nata
Jul 13
Camera’s for kids not interesting enough below $100: Manufacturers seem to keep picture quality and durability as mutually exclusive features. Even the cheapest mobile phone has a better camera than the more expensive kid’s camera!
An observation by Terry Lane on Stuff.
Jun 30
My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day.
He had told me it was big, but I hadn’t realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book.
When I saw it for the first time, its colour also struck me. Nowadays gadgets come in a rainbow of colours but this was only one shade – a bland grey.(…)
When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.
Jun 26
On the risk of publishing old news, still thought it was interesting to blog this article (released feb 09) in the light of the previous message:
Nature Words Dropped From Children’s Dictionary
To make way for modern tech terms such as BlackBerry, blog, voicemail and broadband, the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has opted to drop terms pertaining to nature. No longer can a child check this dictionary and learn more about the blackberry, dandelion, acorn, heron, otter, magpie, sycamore, or willow.
Jun 22
The NPR, the National Public Radio (USA), asked their audience about what children do with technology. The responses gave a nice overview of the current momentum of technology in the life of the very young.
“We saw a bit of trend in your stories: cell phones + water = gadget death. A surprising number of variations on that theme involved toilets, pet water bowls and kid drool. Still a whole other category involved stories of repeated 911 dialing, hiding tech toys from stressed parents and inserting all sorts of food into drives and slots of all kinds.
But not all stories involved destruction or police knocking at the door. Below are some of the standouts (…)”
Submitted through Twitter:
- 4 year old learned to type his name on my first blackberry
- Last night my daughter used my cell phone as a flash light in bed after lights out.
- …etc – more in the original article
Jun 09
Being a speedy cyclist I hope this phenomenon stays on the other side of the Canal: British police is using a lasergun to catch speedy cyclists in Bournemouth; preferred speed is 10mph (16,1 km/h). That is s-l-o-w—m-o-t-i-o-n!
Okay okay, that is on a promenade along the seaside.
Jun 04
First thing I am going to look into after my PhD is EBD for User Research. The first time I heard about this approach was when Marc Hassenzahl explained the similarities between usability specialists and GP’s in his keynote at the CHI-NL conference 2007. Rob Tannen convinced me again of the fruitful approach in User Centred Design.
Jun 02
Very excited to hear Hiroshi Ishiguro. He is professor and director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory in Osaka, Japan. In robot development, Professor Ishiguro concentrates on the idea of making a robot that is as similar as possible to a live human being. He is famous for creating various replicas of persons, such as himself.
On the side of UX-methods it is interesting to hear Gilbert Cockton speak for our community. At the CHI Nederland Conference 2009: Change! Gilbert Cockton will talk about ‘Quadricentric Design’, arguing that a design process should not proactively privilege one perspective, but shift attention as needed between designed artifacts, design purpose, design beneficiaries and design evaluation.
More keynote speakers @ chi-conferentie.nl
Modestly bringing to your attention that I will be presenting too, track Reflection/Methods; reflecting on the use of creative methods in HCI.