This video is not exactly new, but just today I had a chance to watch it, and got very impressed. Not only because of the scenario Microsoft envision for the future, on how computational devices will be embedded in our surroundings. Many people have already described it, and there’s nothing new about it. But one […]
quarta-feira, 1 de abril de 2009
An interesting talk at TED, from Evan Williams, one of the minds responsible for Blogger and Twitter. The talk is about Twitter – how it started, how it evolved, how people created new ways for using it. To me the most interesting part of this talk is exactly when EV talks about how people are […]
sábado, 7 de março de 2009
I just published here an article I wrote last year, and that will also be published as a chapter of a CD-Rom/book, organized by the graduate programs of PUC-Rio, Anhembi-Morumbi and UNESP-Bauru. The CD-Rom/book will be published by Rosari. The article is a new version of a presentation I’ve made last year at 2nd. EBAI […]
terça-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2009
O artigo apresenta um panorama do desenvolvimento de objetos e ambientes inteligentes, descrevendo suas características básicas e possíveis aplicações. Discute as implicações da implementação desses sistemas em nossas práticas cotidianas. Aponta questões gerais que podem orientar a discussão sobre o papel dos designers de interação como participantes dessa etapa da evolução das tecnologias computacionais.
terça-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2009
A very simple, but interesting project that promotes a sense of closeness and intimacy. Just turn on your lamp, and someone related to you will have it’s own lamp (a small version of yours) also lighted on. The Good Night Lamp project is a family of lamps which allow people to communicate the act of […]
sexta-feira, 7 de novembro de 2008
Sobre a evolução dos computadores, que deixam de ser “caixotes” em cima de nossas mesas e passam a compor o ambiente, integrados aos objetos mais corriqueiros.
terça-feira, 4 de novembro de 2008
It’s not something new to say that product design is “changing” into service design. But many people still don’t get it quite well. What do you mean? No products? Yes. No products, at least in some specific situations. As I use to say, you don’t have to own an electric drill. You have to be […]
domingo, 26 de outubro de 2008
Apresentação feita durante o 2º Encontro Brasileiro de Arquitetura da Informação (EBAI), São Paulo
sexta-feira, 17 de outubro de 2008
It has been a long time now since Nokia presented the Nokia Morph concept video, sharing their vision about how nanotechnology could be used on future communication devices. I first saw it mentioned in IxDA discussion group. At that time I wrote my impressions about it, and today I got back to it for some […]
segunda-feira, 13 de outubro de 2008
My books finally arrived! I’m almost embarrassed to say that I have never read Adam Greenfield’s Everyware before – it has been on my ‘wish list’ for ages! But I guess is still time to catch up with this “almost-classic” book about ubiquitous computing. The interesting thing about it is that it was written by […]
domingo, 5 de outubro de 2008