Browse by Tags

Green, Computer Aided Persuasion and the Interface at the Edge

An article in New Scientist explores how user interface researchers are investigating computer aided persuasion as a technique to assist people to make choices. To me this is a perfect example of understanding how to use the edge computing interface to...

Published 11-20-2009 6:15 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Energy , Green IT, Trends, Applications, attention engineering, Technology adoption, User Interface

A whole other kind of cloud computing for the 2012 Olympics

This article from the BBC describes a huge piece of infrastructure being proposed for the London Olympics . "A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects...

Published 11-19-2009 1:48 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging technologies , attention engineering, User Interface, Entertainment

Toronto City Innovation Conference

Earlier this week I was the keynote speaker for the Toronto Innovation Showcase . One of the things the mayor announced was the Toronto Open project. This activity opens up much of the cities information for the residents of Toronto to mashup into applications...

Published 11-05-2009 11:34 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Consumerization , Edge computing , Innovation , Trends, Applications, Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, Organizational relationships, User Interface

Mashup standards

I was reading SD Times the other day while riding an exercise bike at the gym (hey, you have to do something to keep your mind occupied) and I came across an article on the Open Mashup Alliance . I had quite a number of questions about the OMA . Although...

Published 10-25-2009 1:36 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Standards, Trends, Technology adoption, Web 2.0, Personalization, Flexibility, User Interface

A move to tap into the computing environment around us?

A while back I mentioned how today we live in an " and" world where people want it all. This is true in the mobile space as well. We'd like to have small, portable and yet capable systems. In order to do this we need to overcome mobile device...

Published 09-08-2009 8:06 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Agility, Mobility , User Interface

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens?

A week or so back I did a blog entry on augmented reality possibilities , and in this month's IEEE Spectrum there is an article on the placing displays right on the eye . This is done by having the display and possibly sensors integrated with a contact...

Published 09-03-2009 11:29 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Vision , Pervasive computing, User Interface

Authentication and automation possibilities

This seems to me the week that I'm thinking about interfaces and interaction. About a year ago I did a blog entry on interface shifts . One area I had not thought about at all was the use of the security interface hardware as a more general interaction...

Published 08-27-2009 3:54 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Edge computing , Applications, User Interface

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives