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c r e a t i v i t y t h r o u g h k n o w l e d g e
27th February 2007
Zombie Infection Simulation - run away!
usetext is a tool for creating online zoomable
texts.
Very definitely worth reading "Information Design: An Introduction".
Free hand sketching to create 3D models: "Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design".
Do the Nonlinear Magnification thang!
The Bean Scripting Framework, originally an IBM research project and now Free Software with the Apache Software Foundation, is a seriously
impressive piece of work, but documentation is very thin on the ground...but finally
I've found some in IBM's BSF 2.2 bin release - woohooo!
Go and play with PhotoMesa - an excellent way of browsing, via a Zoomable User Interface, an archive of photos.
Kinda sad and strange, and I wonder how true: "Death in the snow"
Skateboard Science is an interesting site about skateboarding. Hmm, I wonder how a skateboard could be wired? And how could it be useful? I've a few ideas on it bouncing
around my head...
Woohoo, the number of sentences entered in Symbolify since it started a few months ago has passed the 10,000 mark!
I seem to be on a pretty pictures (scroll down for good links) buzz at the moment!
The "Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction" is a stimulating and excellent read, or more to the point its great for picking up and diving into specific papers.
Oh yeah, vote for Jerry Springer for the U.S. Senate!?
Update: Ok, mystery solved - it was mentioned on MetaFilter via Bifurcated Rivets, thanks.
Go play on BumpList - An Email Community for the Determined.
Ooops I just realised I was setting the weblog date to Feb rather than March!
Its retroactively fixed now.
Over the next few days I'll list a few handy Human-Computer Interaction links, for now I'll start with: HCI Bibliography and CHI recently completed theses.
Which side are you on? Do you owe your allegiance to the arts or the sciences? Does
the question of the "Two Cultures" even make sense?
Check out CultureLab-Uk for
some inspiring links, including something I was wondering
about recently.
I cannot recommend Herman Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" strongly enough. It will reach into you and stir you
up. It is one of the rarest kinds of books: one which can be re-read many
times over over a lifetime.
Learn a little bit about part-of-speech (POS) tagging, which is used in computational linguistics.
runme.org is a "software art repository"...
Riddle away your day!
Can you imagine wearing a nametag for
two years as an experiment in person to person interaction?
Brainf**k is a Turing complete
programming language with only 8 instructions.
Electrorheological
fluids change state based on the application of an electric field, i.e.
the viscosity can be controlled.
Of course you'll also want to learn about and see some impressive photos dealing
with Snow Crystals.
Alternatively you could work your way through this great list of links related to biopotential
technologies, e.g. BCIs, EEG, etc.
Have a look at SodaContructor
and this (NetBird) 2d way of visualising connectivity between internet points.
Crossings - an eJournal of Art and
Technology have published issue 2.1. I'll have to print out some of the papers
and have a read, some of them sound quite interesting.
CreativityAndCognition.org - hmm, interesting, I like the design.
As soon as I finish reading the excellent Introducing Neuropsychology (rush
out and buy it, its a fascinating read) I think I'll work my way
through the online guide to Classics
in the History of Psychology.
On the 9th of April the National Concert Hall
is having a world premiere of Toy Symphony (I'm going, I'm going, I'm going,
woohooo!). I've wanted to see and hear Hyperinstruments in action for a long time.
XCruise another way of viewing a filesystem in 3D. The method it uses for showing
symlinks is well thought out.
ToonTalk is a visual programming
language for children.
BTW I'm not updating brainjuice everyday, my
plan is around 2 to 3 updates a week, and yes you can send
me suggestions.
Would you use a
head tracker instead of a mouse?
Ain't this
a pretty way to visualise filesystems in 3D?
This Visual Thesaurus, from Plumb Design, has been one of my favourite visualisation techniques for years. Visit it, use the word "mean", make sure its in 3D mode, set it spinning slightly, and then click on "Auto-Navigate".
wayV is getting a massive amount
of traffic at the moment, it was mentioned on LinuxFR.org and GCU-Squad.
Nooface is a good HCI weblog.
Rhizome is an online community space for people who are interested in new media art.
The Irish Museum of Modern Art has an online exhibition of net.art / new media art. Be aware it is uncurated.
Its all in the stars I tell ya!
Eurographics Ireland
2002 Workshop is on on the 25th and 26th of March, unfortunately I'm
too busy.
D.A.T.A. (Dublin Art and Technology Association) Event 2.0 is being held in the Stags Head Pub, Dame Lane,
Dublin, Ireland at 7pm on the 10th of April.
Citeseer is a great free search engine
for finding research papers.
Speaking, or more to the point writing, of which if you have any interest
in HCI have a read of the paper A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology by
Brad A. Myers.
This virtual keyboard has been getting a lot of press. A question I heard
raised elsewhere: If a
person uses a virtual keyboard on a hard surface will they damage their finger joints over time?
I'd be lost without Dictionary.com.
Maverick, from the
Advanced Interfaces Group (AIG) in Manchester
University, is a powerful infrastructure for building virtual reality systems.
I played around with it last night and it doesn't seem hard to code. I think
I'll try creating a few data visualisation tools with it in mid-April. An added
bonus is its Free Software.
I'm after putting back the brainjuice tag line "creativity through knowledge" -
its a little pretentious isn't it?
Artport is the Whitney Museum portal to net art.
wayV, a Free Software project of mine, seems to be getting a lot more traffic than usual. I wonder where it was mentioned?
I'm not going to bother trying to dig out the old brainjuice design, the current one is
simple and clean, it works.
A good introduction to Adaptive Interfaces is here, which ties into this conference dealing with Intelligent User Interfaces.
The Secret Lives of Numbers has an extremely interesting
java applet that displays the relative popularity of every integer between 0 and one million.
Benford's Law and Looking Out for No. 1 outline some theory on number frequency.
Slashdot mentions an NLP project (Newsblaster) from a Columbia University NLP Group that automatically creates summaries of leading news articles from multiple websites.
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