Princess Leia & Stunt Double Sunbathing on Tatooine While Filming Return of the Jedi ( via Laughing Squid )
11/05/2009
09/19/2009
Stormtroopers reminisce about death star (via zyonasan2002)
08/24/2009
Bellatrix and the Boxettes at the 1Click2Fame Awards Party (via 1Click2Fame)
08/19/2009
08/10/2009
James May from Top Gear U.K. takes an emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 spyplane. (via wasdom01)
08/10/2009
The Multicolored Multitask (Guitar Hero + Rubik’s Cube) (via JRefleX93)
08/03/2009
Gonna put this on my Playa bike. MonkeyLectric Video Pro bike wheel light display (via goldwada)
07/28/2009
<ol><li>Slide Can into cup: tab aligned with nozzle</li>
<li>Tilt can downwards and push in spike</li>
<li>Click tab to locked positon</li>
<li>With mouth on nozzle, upright can, pop tab, Drink.</li>
<li>WIN</li></ol>
07/28/2009
Chris Harrison, Scott Hudson
http://chrisharrison.net/projects/pneumaticdisplays
Physical buttons have the unique ability to provide low-attention and vision-free interactions through their intuitive tactile clues. Unfortunately, the physicality of these interfaces makes them static, limiting the number and types of user interfaces they can support. On the other hand, touch screen technologies provide the ultimate interface flexibility, but offer no inherent tactile qualities. In this paper, we describe a technique that seeks to occupy the space between these two extremes offering some of the flexibility of touch screens, while retaining the beneficial tactile properties of physical interfaces.
The outcome of our investigations is a visual display that contains deformable areas, able to produce physical buttons and other interface elements. These tactile features can be dynamically brought into and out of the interface, and otherwise manipulated under program control. The surfaces we describe provide the full dynamics of a visual display (through rear projection) as well as allowing for multitouch input (though an infrared lighting and camera setup behind the display). To illustrate the tactile capabilities of the surfaces, we describe a number of variations we uncovered in our exploration and prototyping. These go beyond simple on/off actuation and can be combined to provide a range of different possible tactile expressions. A preliminary user study indicates that our dynamic buttons perform much like physical buttons in tactile search tasks.
Harrison, C. and Hudson, S. E. 2009. Providing Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 4 - 9, 2009). CHI ‘09. ACM, New York, NY.
Providing Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display - CHI ‘09 (via chrisharrisoncmu)
07/15/2009
Augmented Reality Business Card on Vimeo (via James Alliban)
