Subscribe to Future HCI Tiny Letters http://tinyletter.com/spooner HoloLens goes to Space. Almost Just 4 days after announcing a collaboration between NASA & Microsoft on further HoloLens projects there were 2 Holo units being sent on their way to the International…
The latest film showing one vision of the future has been released by Microsoft. 2015 2011 2009
Cortana is your personal digital assistant built into the heart of your Windows Phone and soon to come to the desktop with Windows 10 later this year. One of the useful features that make her stand out from voice control…
Window Wanderland? Initially, when I saw a flyer for Window Wanderland I didn’t intend for this to be a Kinect project at all. I was going to do a mechanical moving background of gently rising jellyfish silhouetted with seaweed floating…
*** UPDATE *** We’re full but DO add your name to the waitlist – more places will become available. *** UPDATE *** Go REGISTER. My colleagues and I in the Microsoft UK Future of Human Computer Interaction team have been…
Whilst I can’t vouch for the authenticity of these videos (as they don’t come directly from an Amazon channel) the sentiment still holds true – the pace with which we’re adopting robot technology is terrifyingly fast. The first video has…
Since we removed humans from the road crossing process our junctions and traffic lights for pedestrians have become pretty dull. But here’s 2 examples that make the waiting process a little more entertaining. There is a school of thought that…
A few years back, tablet artist Paul Kerkal introduced me to drawing on a tablet. Windows 8 tablets are particularly well suited to this, especially the new Surface Pro 3 which has over 250 levels of pressure sensitivity and Palm…
To take something very complicated, such as our hearing, and massively simplify it – we don’t hear sound, we feel it. That’s why this piece of video is believable whilst at the same time being jaw-droppingly frightening and wow at…