It’s not science fiction: human-computer interaction in 2016
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…
Kinect Window Wanderland
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…
Kinectathon London, March 2015
*** 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…
Interactive story telling. Part 1.
You know when you have an idea, one that exists only in your head but you have a picture of how it will manifest itself in a finished product. I have one of those right now, and it is around…
How do I look so cool on Skype? That’ll be Xbox One
My brother asked me if I had my own camera crew to assist with my Skype conversations. Haha. I don’t. What I do have is Skype on my Xbox One. I can sit on my sofa and it will zoom…
Why I can’t embrace Augmented Reality
Cross-posted from Ubelly.com Over the last few years we’ve seen some jaw-dropping Augment Reality demos. Here’s a YouTube playlist of some of my favourites: I love watching these and enjoy imagining me being in a situation where one of these…
Seriously jaw dropping Kinect / Ableton / Max live sound looping demo via @jamesalliban
This should silence the critics who talk about latency issues with Kinect. If there’s one area where latency really makes a difference, it’s music. Hope there’s a bit of this at Glastonbury this weekend. Nom nom. Posted via email from…
The Future of Interaction?
Recently I’ve been having a number of conversations about the future of interfaces and how the way we interact with computers and information will likely change in the near future. These conversations are mostly in reference to Kinect. We’ve come…