Interactivity beyond the desktop that is a going trend with many interactive studios adding “design labs” into their business structures.
Teehan and Lax have created Teehan Labs to experiment and explore new technologies and interaction models.
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I’ve been doing some ad-hoc research on gesture/touch based technologies and children. Exploring what is a child’s learning curve for touch based device, their technology expectations and biases, what is the driving factor for playing with specific technologies and what does this means for GUI design, User Experience, programming, development and deployment.
I’ve discussed some of the general findings with various people at the Breaking Development conference with a lot of interest from designers and developers from Intel, Microsoft and a tech guru. The next step is to start compiling and putting some qualitative structure into my finds and sending out via this blog. Posting my findings and thoughts out there is intimidating, but a necessary part in my professional career development and personal growth.
Exciting times.
“Anything invented before you were born is part of the natural order of the universe. Anything invented before you turn 35 is an exciting new technology and possible career opportunity. Anything invented after that is evil and contrary to nature.” – Douglas Adams
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. – Charles Darwin
The new media/interactive landscape shifts every few years; the web evolves and technology evolves with it. It is necessary to adapt and change with these shifts. My next learning goals are to learn how to program using the Arduino open-source microprocessors and how to program using Processing. Books have been borrowed from the library, Adruino boards purchased and a lonely Robo-Sapien awaits to be reanimated.