Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface. "While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able ...
Flip the business card, browse and discover. New trends in business cards usability. Business card exchange is cool. We all learnt this from American Psycho. In some cultures such as the Japanese, it is almost a ritual where you show respect and interest for the person you’re meeting. But the times they are-a-changing. ...
If you ever thought that DJs are the priests of the digital society we live in, wait until you see them playing god. Just go wooow. Check the video here (I just got it on email, if you know the author just let me know. Some blogs point to Chris Cairns as ...
Usability Guru Donald Norman adds emotion to reason: attracting objects work better. Escaping the Christmas shopping frenzy in Barcelona I stopped at the RAS bookstore/gallery. The truth is that it doesn’t have to be Christmas to spend a lot of money on expensive design books there. But not this time. I ...
Mobile devices for underground mobile users. If you have ever been in London you have no doubt spent quite some time in the London underground. Tube as they say. While some things such as the "mind the gap" reminder and the ability to read huge newspapers while standing will never change, I ...
In this new memory game based on flickr contents you get to play in both sides of the tiles. Two of my colleagues at the IUA from Pompeu Fabra University, added a new twist to the memory game (the pairs game we used to play when we were kids). The concept behind ...