Excellent post, David! Folks unfamiliar with PopTech's Project Masiluleke should check it out:
http://www.poptech.org/project_m/ frog design (led in this effort by Robert Fabricant), and frog's parent company Aricent, were both partners in this effort, along with many others. It's a great example how well targeted interaction design and technology can directly improve human situations by positively affecting people's behaviors. Robert. Robert Reimann IxDA Seattle Associate Creative Director frog design Seattle, WA On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:47 AM, ELISABETH HUBERT <[email protected]>wrote: > Wow this is an awesome post. I think you pose some very interesting > questions. It would seem that if we can design interactions that > change peoples behaviors from hiring a camera man to taking our own > photos at home, or from only being on the internet while i'm near a > computer to using the internet wherever we should be able to then > accomplish the tasks you mention. i guess the really fun part is > figuring out how. > > We know that some mobile phone companies are taking the time to > create devices that don't "expire" as quickly or are creating > universal chargers etc. Will this make us more "green" or does it > force us to be so? does this force equal the goal? > > Great post! > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40847 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
