http://www.digfordesign.com Portfólio Koji Niemeyer ● I'm digging for fire Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:55:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally the demos on TEI2011. http://www.digfordesign.com/en/2011/demos-no-tei2011/ I've just came back from TEI2011, an event about tangible, embedded and embodied interaction. It's a very huge conference with the participation of some great design and technology schools like MIT Media Lab, Carnegie Mellon, TU/e, KAIST e among others.I've presented a paper about a project in Brazil for Natural ... http://www.digfordesign.com/en/2011/uma-visao-geral-do-tei2011/ The documentary tells the story of Arduino and its creation on the extinct IVREA interaction design school. Enjoy... Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo. http://www.digfordesign.com/en/2011/arduino-o-documentario/ The video above illustrate one week in two minutes on IDEO. Note that are no computers involved in this sketching sessions. At a first look could sound weird to work with interaction design without computers. But, IMHO it is impossible to design optimal experiences without a paper and a set of ... http://www.digfordesign.com/en/2010/english-paper-prototyping-ftw/ How many times I have tried to understand a electronics schematics? or just looking how to illustrate a specific component. For designers who usually build electronic prototypes, all thigs get mad :/ This is what a crazy guy did in a considerable free time. He categorized all those components for ... http://www.digfordesign.com/en/2010/utilidade-publica-electrical-what-uma-wikipedia-de-eletronica/ The XRDS magazine published by ACM is out now with an edition dedicated to the future of interaction. With a series of articles about tangible interfaces, brain-machine interface, physical computing and pervasive computing. The magazine even has a Hiroshi Ishii's profile, the MIT Media Lab professor, precursor in several concepts in ... http://www.digfordesign.com/en/2010/o-futuro-da-interacao/ Finally my installation "Frozen Poetry" on an exhibition in Belo Horizonte, Brasil. FROZEN POETRY Marginália Lab The individual who, bearing an ice cube, freezes syllables building imprecise signs. In a proposal permeated by ludic characteristics, Koji Pereira invites the visitors of his interactive installation Frozen Poetry to undergo a battle of small proportions against ... http://www.digfordesign.com/en/2010/poesia-congelada-no-espaco-cento-e-quatro/ User Experience Designer  Luke Wroblewski have published in his blog a gesture reference guide, a summary of almost all gestures implemented until today (PDF Version). Lukew's guide is a great way to not reinvent the wheel, but at the same time it makes clear how there's no consensus among softwares. http://www.digfordesign.com/en/2010/interfaces-naturais/ This is a digital guitar running linux with SSH :) The guitar is MIDI compatible and it has a multitouch screen. This kind of toy was made in Australia and  seems  it will be for sale soon, at least this is what the official site says. The guitar has a ... http://www.digfordesign.com/en/2010/guitarra-multitoque-rodando-gentoo-linux/ The coalition of agencies, productors, designers and developers created this awesome result. A giant 3D interactive projection, where public can interact with two blank screens and one multitouch table. http://www.digfordesign.com/en/2010/projecao-gigante-em-3d-interativa/