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Forty years of making pictures with computers

I started young, a nine-year-old kid teaching myself 6502 assembly language so that I could make the lights move on the KIM-1 microcomputer that my Dad brought home, a gift from a friend of his who worked at the CSIRO*... [read more]

research

A hallway conversation with Hiroshi Ishii and Lian Loke

When you have a moment to be advised by someone who leads the world in a field of enquiry, it's good to listen closely.

research

Experience Art

Back in 2008 I presented a paper at OZCHI in Cairns, and met a few of my research heroes. I documented the experience on Twitter, but despite my optimism at the time there is no longer any trace of those tweets. So this year...

prototypes

Imaginary tablets

For those of us interested in how humans interact with our machines, how socio-technical systems are made and how they make us, this is a precious moment. Tomorrow the probability waveforms collapse...

design

Reclaiming Affordances

The next time you're about to use the word “affordance”, please stop and check if the word “cue” would work instead. Because if it would, then you're doing it wrong. And here's why that matters.

research

Creativity and Cognition 2009

In a few hours I’m off to Berkeley for Creativity and Cognition 2009 to participate in the Graduate Symposium. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ben Shneiderman, Jane Prophet and my advisor Ernest Edmonds...

Strategy

Prior Art

It was an intoxicating time before the first .com crash and we filled our days with experiments in virtual worlds, multiplayer gaming, videoconferencing and other exotic attempts to figure out what to do with the new 10Mb/sec (symmetrical!) connections. And of course, internet video.

design

Form factors

[From September 2009, four months before the iPad launch] – I’ve been obsessed lately with form factors for interactive devices. To the extent that I’ve been carrying around models of tablet computers made of foam core and acetate, just to get the feel...

collaboration

Tap tap tap – a case study for distributed collaborative creativity.

Taptaptap make iPhone apps, but they’re not an old-fashioned development shop. Times have changed.