Usability Do’s And Don’ts For Interactive Design — from SmashingMagazine.com
On 04/27/2010,
in interaction design, interactivity, usability, user experience (UX),
by Daniel Christian
On 04/22/2010,
in art, computer science, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, economics, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, interaction design, interactivity, interface design, learning spaces, multi-touch, multimedia, music, new media literacies, physics, programming, project-based learning, psychology, science, smart classrooms, sociology, storytelling, student-related, user experience (UX), virtual field trips, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, visualizing information, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
What sorts of cross-disciplinary assignments come to mind when you view these items?
- Visitors explore the electromagnetic spectrum on a custom 100? multitouch table
- AudioTouch Multitouch Audio Table
- MT 50 Multitouch Table
- Microsoft Surface – The Possibilities
- Innovative use of technology
- Interactive Retail Solutions
- “Holographic” Multitouch (Eatang Digital Technology)
- The Big Screens Show
- Touch Topics
- Multi Touch Music Wall
- Video-wall / Multi-display / Big Screen / Super Size Display
- How to Build a 20′ Multitouch Screen in 3 Weeks
- Interactive Storytelling on Microsoft Surface
- More Multi-touch: Multi-touch Table at Schlossmuseum Linz, by Struckt Design Studio (added 4/24/10)
For these and other reasons, I’m trying to get a multi-touch wall built into our future smart classrooms.
Talk about keeping students engaged! Talk about working together in teams — very real-world!
On 03/23/2010,
in computer science, design, interaction design, interface design, Uncategorized, web design and production,
by Daniel Christian
HTML 5: Why should we care? What might this specification give us?
- HTML 5 — Wikipedia
- HTML 5 Video — Wikipedia
- HTML5 differences from HTML4 — W3C
- HTML5 — W3C
Abstract: This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. - A Preview of HTML 5 — from A List Apart
HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics.
…
As evidenced by the various Flash-based media players, authors are interested in providing their own custom-designed user interfaces, which generally allow users to play, pause, stop, seek, and adjust volume. The plan is to provide this functionality in browsers by adding native support for embedding video and audio and providing DOM APIs for scripts to control the playback. The newvideoandaudioelements make this really easy. Most of the APIs are shared between the two elements, with the only differences being related to the inherent differences between visual and non-visual media. - HTML 5 Glossary — from the HTML5Doctor.com
- HTML 5 Could Challenge Flash: New browser technologies may reduce the need for Adobe’s ubiquitous plug-in.
HTML 5 Conference (Online):
On 03/18/2010,
in instructional design, interaction design, interface design, user experience (UX),
by Daniel Christian
On 03/17/2010,
in accessibility / UDL, budgets, business side of he, change, changing business models, consortiums, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, disruption, economics, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, expectations, face-to-face, faculty, future of higher education, game-changing environment, generational differences, global / globalization, higher education, innovation, interaction design, interface design, internet, leadership, learning ecosystem, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, online learning, open courseware and systems, social learning / networks, staying relevant, student-related, traditional / tradition, universities,
by Daniel Christian
From:
http://www.slideshare.net/glenn.platt/universities-in-the-free-era-sxsw-2010-presentation
Also see:
Links for SXSW 2010 Presentatation: Universities in the “Free” Era
Glenn Platt, Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies
Peg Faimon, Miami Design Collaborative — Miami University
- Chris Anderson’s “Free” Article in Wired
- DIYU Blog
- Spence’s Signaling Paper
- Zeigert’s Study of Personality Types of Professors and Students
- HigherEd Infographic
- Ohio’s Senior to Sophomore Program
- MIT OpenCourseware
- iTunesU
- Youtube EDU
- Open Courseware Consortium
- Open Content
- OpenEd
- LectureFox
- NPR Forum Network
- TED
- Open Culture
- Research Channel
- Google Books
- Flatworld Knowledge
- Textbook Revolution
- CourseSmart
- Cramster
- GradeGuru
- ShareNotes
- Sloan-C
- Ning
- Singularity University
- Academic Earth
- Ohio Learning Network
- University of the People
- The Open University
- University of Phoenix
- Experience Designer
- IDEO’s T-Person
- Liz Coleman’s TED Talk
- OER Commons
Other food for thought:
- http://mashable.com/2009/07/24/education-social-media/
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/technology/25iht-university.4.19660731.html?_r=1
- http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/29/ccplan
- http://mashable.com/2009/07/15/social-media-public-affairs/
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123923520520403259.html
- http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Find-Free-Online/48776/
- http://chronicle.com/article/College-20-More-Professors/64521/
On 03/05/2010,
in change, computer science, innovation, interaction design, Microsoft, research,
by Daniel Christian
On 03/01/2010,
in interaction design,
by Daniel Christian
On 02/25/2010,
in computer science, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital video, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future of higher education, game-changing environment, graphics, instructional design, interaction design, interface design, internet, multimedia, online learning, online media, online tutoring, personalized/customized learning, simulations, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning,
by Daniel Christian
The International Journal of Multimedia & Its Applications (IJMA) is a quarterly open access journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the Multimedia & its applications. The journal focuses on all technical and practical aspects of Multimedia and its applications. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding recent developments this arena, and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Multimedia & its applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
- Audio, image, video processing
- Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
- Education and Training
- Multimedia analysis and Internet
- Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
- Multimedia Applications
- Multimedia Communication and Networking
- Multimedia Content Understanding
- Multimedia Databases and File Systems
- Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction
- Multimedia Interface and Interaction
- Multimedia security and content protection
- Multimedia Signal Processing
- Multimedia standards and related issues
- Multimedia Systems and Devices
- Operating system mechanisms for multimedia
- Virtual reality and 3-D imaging
- Wireless, Mobile Computing and Multimedia
On 02/23/2010,
in Adobe, design, innovation, interaction design, interface design,
by Daniel Christian
60 interactive, 3D and astonishing web designs created in Flash — from 1stwebdesigner.com
On 02/17/2010,
in interaction design, music,
by Daniel Christian
Noteput: An interactive music table — from etre.com
Also see http://www.jonasheuer.de/index.php/noteput/ — An interactive music table with tangible notes, that helps students to learn the notation of music.
On 02/15/2010,
in instructional design, interaction design, interface design, mobile learning, more voice more choice more control,
by Daniel Christian
Why if you miss Siri you’ll miss the future of the Web — from Scobleizer
Siri is the most useful thing I’ve seen so far this year. But after playing with it, getting an interview with its CEO (video here on building43) it’s even more important for you to pay attention to. It is the best example of what the web will be (emphasis DSC).
From DSC:
In the interview this quote stood out for me: “Siri is a ‘do’-engine…not a search engine.”
Also see:
Meet Siri, the iPhone App from the Future (available now!) — from Profhacker.com
Delegated computing and the future of the web — from Siri.com
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Dynamic Service Delegation
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Meta-data Driven
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Algorithmic Combination
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The Future of the Web
Siri is just a beginning step to realizing this vision of “delegated computing”, where all the world’s services are being dynamically combined at the user’s beck and call. I do strongly agree with Robert’s post in that I believe that this will happen and that delegated computing will be an import part of the future of the web, and the way we interact with computers in general.
On 02/13/2010,
in interaction design,
by Daniel Christian
Interaction 10: A Take-Home Quiz — from changeorder blog
Identify the following statements as True or False. Show your work.
Better User Experience With Storytelling, Part 2 — from SmashingMagazine.com by Francisco Inchauste
On 02/09/2010,
in 21st century, 3D, blended learning, education technology, hybrid learning, interaction design, smart classrooms,
by Daniel Christian
RENCI pioneering the visualization industry with innovative interfaces — from InnovativeInteractivity.com by Tracy Boyer
“Today I flew through a digitally enhanced simulation of an ear canal, looked at 3D manipulations of static 2D images, and watched a seamless video projected simultaneously on four surrounding walls. The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) is based in North Carolina and oddly enough it was my first visit to this extremely innovative and eye-opening interactive institute. Not only did it get me excited about information visualization, it gave me tons of inspiration for the future of immersive and interactive multimedia. Here is a great overview video of a similar tour group that went through RENCI. I experienced the first two visualizations that are shown here…”