At the recent Adobe Max conference, there was a piece of tech presented in the Sneak Peeks section called Project Voco – essentially, Photoshop for voice. Now, we’ve been able to edit images, replace people, remove people, add objects and…
3 books I recently took on holiday with me had a focus on augmented and virtual reality. Apart from the times I’d discovered a new writer and spent months reading their back catalogue, this was the first time that I’d…
There’s many views on how new technology will find its way into our lives in the future, in the last few weeks, 2 films have been released which paint future visions. tl;dr Videos are embedded below, scroll down to watch…
A recording from a talk I gave with Mike T at Dev Week 2016, rather enjoyed this one. Abstract As technologists we are pretty bad at coming up with new ideas. Instead we often look to literature and films for…
Following on from my previous post on digital patina, I wondered if there’s another way to look at this. This isn’t something I’ve seen, I’m not sure if I want to see it and it could go against the very…
Context. The first in a series of experiments into how we as humans can naturally and realistically interact with the digital world. Mike and I have talked through various aspects of human-computer interaction over the last few years, never with…
Subscribe to Future HCI Tiny Letters http://tinyletter.com/spooner Delivered straight to your inbox. My creators want me to be the user interface of the future I saw this video [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=105&v=kOil2HSDq0E ] titled ‘Face of the future rears its head’ which…
NB – cross posted from http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/developers/articles/week04jun15/digital-patina/ Patina Patina for me, is a measure of authenticity, it’s visual or haptic feedback that a product has seen plenty of use over a period of time. It’s the wear in a car’s leather…
If you have ears, and if you’re interested in the evolution of modern music, here’s some interesting videos that’ll get you thinking. Someone (@phishtitz) sent me this Vimeo over Twitter – it’s a singer performing the same song in 15…