Re: [IxDA Discuss] Green and not: ON and off
I've had that problem recently with alarm clocks. My old one with the red LEDs died, so I had to go shopping for a new one. I couldn't get one like the previous one, and I went through *three* that were too bright to sleep facing the clock (which is the only side I can regularly fall asleep on), because they had glowing screens even when put on dim. The first one got returned, the second became a new clock for the bathroom, and I finally gave up and lost an hour or more of sleep a night for a couple weeks until I managed to get used to it. Technological progress positively sucks some times. I'm sure the glowing screens are touted as a feature, too. Rrrr. On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Ty Hatch wrote: --Lights on the monitor: My wife and I usually have one on all night, and those little volume and power lights are so bright we have had to cover them up, even then they were still almost too bright. It would be better to make it very clear what the channel is and use some sort of hardware indicator other than light to indicate volume that is easily understandable from a distance. That or put a dimmer or off switch on the lights for nighttime use. (It's also the case on the one in my son's room, the light's woken him a couple of times--it's the brightest thing in the room. A glowing green something. Who's gonna want to sleep when they can examine that?) -- Jim Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soundskinky.com/blog/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Managers (was: d schools)
[There is a] common perception that a sales guy can sell *anything*, be it cars or jeans or computerware. This view holds that the domain of business is not determinant, the process is. You learn the process (at business school), you're good to go. As the inadequacy of this approach is exposed we now have another trend: inject the sales guy with some appreciation of the domain, surely now he can do even better. Welcome to 'design thinking,' the finishing school for the Steve Jobs wannabes out there, if you will. I explore this tension further at: The new managerial class: cure for design? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=21259 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] tangible interaction
When you find interesting companies working in this space (or products) and they are working with touchscreen or interactive surfaces, please add them to the Interactive Gestures wiki! http://www.interactivegestures.com I started a list, but it is very incomplete. Dan Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] tangible interaction
Hi David, In terms of institutions, The Tangible Media group led by Hiroshi Ishii of the MIT Media Lab is probably at the top of the list. Their work in tangible computing has a long history. http://tangible.media.mit.edu/ For plenty of examples (including MetaDESK and phicons from MIT), two of the best books to read are: Where the Action Is: The Foundation of Embodied Interaction by Paul Dourish Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing by Adam Greenfield Tangible interaction is still a niche and not many consultancies are focusing on it exclusively but a couple worth checking out include: ThingM http://thingm.com/ Schulze and Webb http://schulzeandwebb.com/ See also: http://nearfield.org/ Two companies that are providing frameworks for experimentation in tangible interaction (via physical computing) are: Tinker.it http://tinker.it/ Phidgets Inc. http://www.phidgets.com/ Finally, check out the presentations from Sketching in Hardware 2007. It's a who's who of the people working on the front lines. Camille Moussette's presentation on haptic interaction is especially good. http://www.sketching07.com/participants.html // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=21461 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
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