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While pervasive conveniences are taken for granted or even being considered necessary, how far should convenience goes? Are we considering/suggesting technology as part of human revolution? reference links http://wearcam.org/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann http://www.sics.se/humle/projects/persona/web/workshop/abstracts.html http://wearcam.org/tv04/hyper-textual_ontology.htm http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=jEvzjaEoKds&feature=related The middle man/good buddy/secretary/personal trainer/big brother/operator/doorman/ As one of our closest "friend", instead of providing simple, rigid form of communication, can the mobile-phone provide something useful to help improving/refining our way to communicate with others? by giving the cell-phone more human feature/response functions, can it comfort/ease the intense form of human-to-human interaction? Can some of the other/traditional forms of communication provide something useful to the cell-phone one? reference li...

http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2008/02/monday_morning.html#comments how do cell-phone shape our behavior? * being late is easier , text msg / call to inform the waiting one( or change plan at the last min) * breaking up with out meeting in person ( or do something else important) * no talking to "unknown" people anymore , like the brother/mother of the girl you are pursuing * check up your cell phone constantly become normal behavior, whether there is important agenda or not. * always concern about the signal, trying to get signal all the time( elevator, tunnel, subway) * the boundary between private and public is vaguer than before, especially when someone ignore the "polite protocol" of using cell phone and force others to share his conversation * the default status of your phone should be "ON" * people get stressful when others left their phones ringing without picking up ( either don't have the knowledge of putting it to vibrate mod...

Virtual secretary>>virtual hierarchy>>relationship map>>emotional record http://www.softhook.com/sanfran.htm http://www.softhook.com/coverage/Community%20Indicators.pdf http://sf.funcheap.com/2007/03/28/free-art-reception-talk-bio-mapping-creating-emotional-map-of-sf/ http://www.motherhaus.com/blog/?p=120 http://books.google.com/books?id=FJwLAAAACAAJ&dq=the+Wireless+world&ei=tjXCR9SGEYKWzASg3oyvCA http://www.flexispy.com/news-flexispy-blackberry-windows-mobile.htm

Can't technology become "customized"and "tech-idiot friendly"? cant we have multiple choices, includes the freedom "not to use" technology without being discriminated? Is the "convenience" that technology bring to us really "always" good? http://kakirine.com/parsons/interface_fall07/video_scenarios/mybrowser.mov http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefan/hc/projects/isophone/ http://www.rhizome.org/ The process of developing your project f)defining questions,ie, users, purpose h) g)look for inspiration, research, reading related papers h)bounce ideas,discuss w friends,colleagues,pros a)concept-ideas b)look@similar projects c)sketch out ideas until u like it i)3 or 4 ideas might b able to mearge into one d)do it h) j)user testing feedback k)iteration e)trail error //what bout research process? writing a paper, coming up w a written text biography search, decipher primary source a)Primary research(what u actually do) B)Secondary research (othe...

Although personal eye-sight is part of our privacy, sometimes people like to share. For example, people share their on-line album to show their unique perspective or life experience. By showing our visions we create our identity. I think it would be popular if people can create their own clothing or handbags, simply through taking video/snapshot and show it on/with you can be unique. I thought about my grandpa first, when i-phone and other super phone seems to about to take over the world. He refuses to use cell phone, which sometimes worries other family members, considering his age. I guess for elder people or disabled folks, the mainstream is not doing any good to them. Instead, learning new user interface and adapting themselves to new technology are intimidating. multi-touch interface is just something way too new/inpratical and not necessary to them. I think there should be a well-designed phone for this specific group of people. As a foreigner, although I tried very hard...

http://www.ampledesign.co.uk/va/ driftnet http://packetgarden.com/ http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/ http://nexus.ludios.net/ http://www.sport4minus.de/loopArena/mtc.html Mind Mapping, again. It took me a looooooong while to figure out what my domain is. The first thing that came to my mind was data-visualization, however, in contrast to those projects that merely utilized the data and generated beautiful images, I'm more interested in projects that have meaningful purposes. Either to create a new interface for the target audience and provide new perspectives or to highlight and organize data and present in a more human-compatible way, I like the practical considerations behind the projects. Human-Computer-Interface is also a topic that I'm always interested in. Compare to those well-developed interface, for instance, traditional website (which written in html/css and for display information mainly), I'm more interested in the new technolo...

I found that there is a huge gap between psychologists and ordinary dreamers. If a dreamer was looking for a simple response/answer, mostly for the comfort, he will find it really frustrated that the information is either too complex to contemplate, for example, those books of dream interpretation in the library, or too simple/inconvincible to apply to his dream, like the funny tutorial video clips on Youtube. Worst of all, either searching for one side of information or another, the process is time-consuming and exhausting since there is simply too much information too filter. Why can’t the process of search answers as simple as what we will do when we want a coke or our daily groceries? Why can’t it be convenient and friendly? Another problem is that, despite all the researches show that dreams are pictorial; none of the accessible interpretation is graphic-based. Maybe that’s why those silly video clips on Youtube are popular: other forms of helping are so text-heavy and not friendl...