tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103638322011-07-07T21:02:48.581+01:00A blog describing progress and discoveries in several areas of my interest: Digital Media Design, Haptic Interfaces, Social Media/Computer mediated Communication to list a few. Mainly focused on my teaching on the MA Design for Digital Media and my PhD research, but also the Nested Narratives project and other research activity.moohnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12751906612607267007noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10363832.post-84457807480231740782011-03-17T14:17:00.005Z2011-03-17T17:15:46.337Z

Finally have got round to writing up my thoughts about the inaugural networking event by Heart & Sole on the 28th January 2011 at the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth, bringing together Webdesign and Webdevelopment students and professionals in the UK's southeast region.It was a most resounding success, which genuinely astonished me, having not had much contact with this network before - apart from

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Flightpattern from Gwen Vanhee on Vimeo.I've come across a few digital media projects that had me really sit up in my chair. And they haven't all necessarily come from the UK, or the US, but from the new Baltic and Balkan states, where a lot of stuff seems to be happening in terms of experimental music (festivals), art and media. What I've seen that made me sit up, is a subtle quality of the

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Mobile devices like the iphone and ipod Touch offer artists a new platform to distribute their work. Ubiquitous, connected, touchable and interactive, they don't just spark the imagination for new interactions, they also enable artists to re-visit some of their work by finally giving them a fairly inexpensive distributed device technology to produce for. Particularly fascinating to work out the

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(Photo by Kevin Rolly) Some very intriguing work by Kasey McMahon, who makes physical sculptures out of data cables for example, which highlights our intricate relationship with technology and its accessories. From the website: "By exploring our philosophical and ethical relationship with technology, and the ways we weave computing into daily activities, Kasey hopes to emphasize individual

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The online presence for the MA Design for Digital Media is growing, with a course-owned wiki, a twitter account, the website on the University of Portsmouth server, and very recently a group blog hosted collectively with other postgraduate courses. It looks really neat! http://www.port.ac.uk/update/category/creative-and-cultural-industries/digital-media/

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This blog is now located at http://moohnaland.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://moohnaland.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default.

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Started the PG Certificate for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education the other week, and today was the first peer learning group meeting. It was interesting to meet the others and hear about the different backgrounds and concerns. The perceived contrasts between Art and Science for example will provide some interesting discussions in my opinion. The most important thing for me for now is to

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This is interesting - some intriguing gadget design fusing "intersection of technology and romance where the future meets the past: Victorian era inventions clash with often dark alternate realities." This might feature well in the Critical Design aspect of the unit 'Research * Development'. These designs are obviously unnecessary, but they force us to confront our notions of what technology

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Just came across a selection of 'Amazing Liquid sculptures" - photographs taken in the moment of liquid splashes. I love this kind of stuff and would like to create my own. I like the 3D and almost tactile quality, and the ephemerality of it. It just makes it really special, the thought that this only existed for a split second - and was formed organically.http://funlok.com/index.php/creativity/

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Anna's Transformation project on the acceptance of technology and the phenomenon of Robots has caused me to blog this article. It is written from the point of view of interaction/experience design and gives a few good examples (looking at visual anthropomorphism for example) as well as insights into how to convey emotion. Turns out Experience Designers Shedroff and Noessel back up my point about

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This project by one of the MA DDM students, Anna, is really shaping up to be interesting - and looking at the recent developments could be a more than pertinent investigation. As Paul pointed out, the fact that Apple is intending to release a handheld tablet device could breathe new life into the e-reader and digital reading experience... A more traditional (!) attempt by Wired Magazine,

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This is an interesting blog, as the author designs each entry according to its content. He has adapted a content management system that allows more than a steady trickle into the same old template layouts. His new system allows him to make " fast design direction based on the needs of the content". He says that this might mean the quality suffers occasionally, however I don't think this is the

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The Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (roughly translates as 'Federal office for Security in Information Technologies) in Germany mainly voiced concerns about the loss of control over data once subscribed to the service Google Wave. Google has reacted surprised to this, mainly at the fact that the institute is passing judgement on a service that has not been publicly released

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I came across a blog post yesterday, reporting on an experimental online magazine. This lead me on a quick stab journey, also inspired by Anna's interest in the experience of reading magazines and how this could change, be supported or enhanced through digital media.A Portuguese success story: could i be the future of newspapers?http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2009/11/

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Here is an article making the link more directly between Ethnography and User Experience Research, as a step before Usability Testing. This relates to recent discussion in the Research Methods unit which dealt with Ethnography (Michele-Anne's session) and then linked to User Experience Research.http://www.cxpartners.co.uk/thoughts/using_ethnography_to_improve_user_experience.htm

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There has been quite a buzz around the possibilities of multitouch technologies in discussion on the MA DDM this week. Here is a glance at the latest developments - a tactile, raised interface which reacts to touch. In its current incarnation a little more than weird, but all the same fascinating for its potential.http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10388260-1.html

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Still trying to synchronise all the web 2.0 service I use (blog, twitter, wiki, social bookmarking) into a coherent platform for digital communication - and working out which service is the best for which task, and which is just a lot of redundant nonsense. We now have the MA DDM course wiki, which is shaping up great. Uptake of the educational twitter service edmodo has been reluctant, so I'm

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I have also started off the creation of a wiki for the MA Design for Digital Media. As this is a collaborative tool, I am hoping the students will get involved in the design of the interface as well as the structure and content. It is a great way to get involved with shaping an interface, without any knowledge of webdesign required. It is a shared space for course information, work files,

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Edmodo is a microblogging service created particularly for educational use. It is possible to create groups and therefore any information is just shared amongst members, and not public. This is obviously particularly important in schools. We will be using and investigating this sort of communication medium within the MA Design for Digital Media, as critical users and designers. It is a timely

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We are getting with the programme on our MA DDM, and we now have a course wiki called Digimites, as well as using the educational twitter service Edmodo. Let's see how it develops!

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Keeping a look out for the conference on Interaction Design for Children, which I have been wanting to attend for years. My last chance was with a paper on MEDIATE, but got beaten to it by the most prolific disseminator in the project, Narcis Pares.However, Alissa N. Antles's works sounds intriguing and I shall look here up some more (one of the co-organisors of the Embodied Interaction Workshop.

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This might find in with recent discussions I've been having with my colleagues about archiving digital media projects. There are obvious hindrances such as out-of-date technology that makes it impossible to display lovingly crafted interactive experiences after a few years. There is also the issue of a perceived need to describe art works and design in words - with artifacts designed to be seen

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Bloggers with an interest in HapticsAngela Chang - M.I.T. alumni, communications technology/media art scienehttp://www.anjchang.com/anjblog/index.htmlAndrew Sargeant - Student at Plymouth Universityhttp://www.evolvingthought.com/blog/

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Since taking on a greater responsibility in teaching on the MA Design for Digital Media, I have been pondering the use of Web 2.0 to integrate course information, discussion and facilitate exchange - at the same time as encouraging the students to get in involved in these digital networks. Only by taking part will you be able to critically analyse, and in turn adapt, create and innovate

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I've finally faced the new log-in procedure and found it to be a lot more painless than I had first imagined - hence no posts for ages. This blog needs to be revived though!!

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http://www.bloggerheads.com/political_weblogs/basics.html

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an article I wrote for the Haptics community was published in the Springer Journal 'Virtual Reality'. It was supposed to go into the special issue on Haptic Interfaces, but unfortunately due to the lengthy review process did not make it into that. The article describes some of my approaches for my PhD research, looking at Haptic communication and interaction and makes some recommendations as to

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Here is a list of links that might be interesting to shape a picture of what citizen journalism is and how it is viewed.Politics/Election campaignsPress Think: Jay Rosen's Blog about the relationship of blogs and the mediahttp://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/TalkLeft: Blog with political leaninghttp://www.talkleft.com/"The American Street": Fun-Politicshttp://www.reachm.com/

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I teach on the MA Design for Digital Media and the MA Real Time Media at Portsmouth University. There is a blog for the latter, maintained by David Garcia.http://blog.hku.nl/RTM-course/The Design for Digital Media course is led by Paul Newland, information and some examples of work can be found here.http://www.port.ac.uk/courses/coursetypes/postgraduate/MADesignForDigitalMedia/portfolio/

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In August, I went to this conference (above) in Dundee and gave a paper on MEDIATE (http://www.port.ac.uk/mediate) with my colleagues Chris and Paul. Even though the conference was very much focussed on web applications and our project is a responsive environment, we enjoyed it a lot. At least I got to try Haggis and do some Scottish dancing! Very recommended!http://

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I am going to the 8th Human Centred Technology Postgraduate Workshop in Brighton, June 28th -29th 2005. The theme is "Advancing the Potential for Communication, Learning and Interaction" and I will be presenting my paper "Communication and Interaction via Touch - Examine the User Before you Reproduce his Hand!". Abstract excerpt:"While continually innovating technology, the main research focuses

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I have recently been quoted by a guy named Nicholas Nova who has a very impressive and extensive blog named "pasta and vinegar".- about pasta (human computer interaction, innovation, technologies, futuristic trends, location based services, mobile computing, user-centric stuff, video game design) and vinegar (digital culture and various weird stuff) -definitely worth a regular visit!

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By the way, if you read this blog then you might also be interested in my website http://www.moohnaland.de which has a lot more information on my background and past and current projects on Interface Design!

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Went to visit this young and innovative design school in the North of Italy, preceding my visit to the Worldhaptics conference in Pisa. I was made to feel very welcome and it is indeed a fascinating community of designers from across the world. I was lucky enough to be invited in several final year student's presentations which was very interesting. If you can't make it there yourself, then check

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Going to Pisa, Italy in March for the Worldhaptics conference! Am presenting a poster about my work on Tactile Semiotics!http://www.worldhaptics.com

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I haven't got quite used to this medium of blogging yet. Most of all, not sure about the (my) whole editing process - what to post and what not to post...What's interesting to me may not be interesting to you. Anyway. Have purchased a Mac mini and am looking forward to receiving it. Hopefully will start more development work in parallel with my research. Been having good meetings and networking

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On the same London visit, attended a discussion forum about People Centred Design. People formerly known as Users... phrase by James Woudlhuysen. http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?contentalias=edlondon

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Recently visited the MA show of Central St. Martin's students in London. Check out http://www.macdshow.com The best projects for me were Tini's emoticon-chat font "Piclig", Gil's installation "The Space Between Us" and the interactive book.

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Well here I am joining the millions of people who post their thoughts for other's to read... a strange but inviting concept. Maybe it will help me keep track of my thoughts...?

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