Entries from Orange Cone tagged with 'writing'
Smart Things: Chapter 6, Information Shadows, Part 6: WineM, an example
This is Part 6 of a pre-print draft of Chapter 6 from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 1) (Part 2) The final book will be different and this is no substitute for it, but...
Smart Things: Chapter 6, Information Shadows, Part 5: Design with Information Shadows
This is Part 5 of a pre-print draft of Chapter 6 from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 1) (Part 2) The final book will be different and this is no substitute for it, but...
Smart Things: Chapter 6, Information Shadows, Part 4: the Internet of Things
This is Part 4 of a pre-print draft of Chapter 6 from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 1) (Part 2) The final book will be different and this is no substitute for it, but...
Smart Things: Chapter 6, Information Shadows, Part 3: Point-at things
This is Part 3 of a pre-print draft of Chapter 6 from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 1) (Part 2)The final book will be different and this is no substitute for it, but it's...
Smart Things: Chapter 6, Information Shadows, Part 1: An early success in item-level identification
This is Part 1 of a pre-print draft of Chapter 6 from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. The final book will be different and this is no substitute for it, but it's a taste of...
Smart Things: Chapter 3, Interaction Metaphors, Part 4: Too Much Metaphor
This is Part 4 of a pre-print draft of Chapter 3 from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 2) The final book will be different and this is no...
Smart Things: Chapter 3, Interaction Metaphors, Part 3: Designing with Metaphors
This is Part 3 of a pre-print draft of Chapter 3 from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 4)The final book will be different and this is no substitute for it,...
Smart Things: Chapter 3, Interaction Metaphors, Part 2
This is Part 2 of a pre-print draft of Chapter 3 from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 1) (Part 3) (Part 4) The final book will be different and this is no substitute for...
Smart Things: Chapter 3, Interaction Metaphors, Part 1
This is Part 1 of a pre-print draft of Chapter 3 from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) The final book will be different and this is no substitute for...
Smart Things: Chapter 1, The Middle of Moore's Law, Part 4
This is Part 4 of a pre-print draft of a chapter from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) The final book will be different and this is no substitute for...
Smart Things: Chapter 1, The Middle of Moore's Law, Part 3
This is Part 3 of a pre-print draft of a chapter from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 4) The final book will be different and this is no substitute for...
Smart Things: Chapter 1, The Middle of Moore's Law, Part 2
This is Part 2 of a pre-print draft of a chapter from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 1) (Part 3) (Part 4) The final book will be different and this is no substitute for...
Smart Things: Chapter 1, The Middle of Moore's Law, Part 1
This is Part 1 of a pre-print draft of a chapter from Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, my upcoming book. (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) The final book will be different and this is no substitute for...
"Smart Things" references
"Smart Things," my book on ubiquitous computing user experience design is approaching completion. The final draft is done, we're working on the interior design and cover and it's available for pre-order from Amazon now. If everything goes well, it will...
The Fuzzy Boundary: Four products that are also services
(Photo CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 by Marshall Astor) Once again I had the honor of being invited to speak to Kimiko Ryokai's Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces class at UC Berkeley today. I used the opportunity to...
Smart Things: an outline
Several people have asked me to describe the ubicomp UX book I'm writing. As time allows (and it doesn't allow much), I'll try to post some information about it. For now, I'll start with an annotated outline. A big caveat:...
Detangling the meanings around the design of services
One of the reasons I haven't posted to this blog in months (and likely won't post anything original to it for months more) is because most of my time is spent writing my ubicomp user experience design book. The chapter...
Ubicomp UX Design in ACM's interactions
I wrote an article on ubiquitous computing user experience design for ACM's interactions magazine. The final article is only available to subscribers, but here's a preprint version of it: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design I think 2005 was the year...
Indi Young's Mental Model book
My old friend and former business partner, Indi Young, has just had her first book published by my old friend Lou Rosenfeld and his new company, Rosenfeld Media, for which I'm an advisor. That caveat aside, I think this is...
How appliances evolve (and how I evolved)
A couple of months back, receiver magazine, Vodaphone's magazine about art, society and technology, asked me to write a short piece for them. I decided to write about the evolution of appliances. As with many of my recent articles, it...
Ubicomp and kitchens: "When a knife talks to a toaster, what do they say?"
I had the great privilege of speaking at the Taste3 conference on wine, food and art in Napa today. This is a terrific conference that's run as a kind of "TED for food" by many of the folks who...
Me on magic and ubicomp in Ambidextrous Magazine
The nice folks at Ambidextrous Magazine asked me to contribute an essay on magic as a metaphor for ubiquitous computing user experience design to Issue 6, which launches this week. This essay fleshes out my October dorkbot presentation. Here's the...
Animist User Expectations in a Ubicomp World
Excuse the shovelware. I just found a position paper I wrote for a CHI2004 workshop called "Lost in Ambient Intelligence." This is a very short paper that' a recap of the argument I made in my animism essay of 2003,...
Whirlpool's in.home project
I returned from a week at the Milan Furniture Fair yesterday (I've put a large collection of unsorted pictures from the Fair on Flickr). It's my third year going to the Fair, and I always find it a fascinating experience....
Etech 06, Part 1: Sketching in Hardware
Last week I had the pleasure and honor of presenting at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference. It was a great party, and I had a great time presenting with Matt Cottam of Tellart. Our presentation was essentially a follow-up to a...
Defining the User Experience
Back in December I mentioned that I have been writing a chapter for Andrew Sears and Julie Jacko's Human Computer Interaction Handbook. This is a pretty monumental volume and it's an honor to write for it. They gave me a...
Guidelines as Tools
Stepping away from my recent interest in ubiquitous computing for a minute, I presented a case study called "Guidelines as Tools: Building a design knowledge management system for programmers" at the DUX 2005 conference. The case study documents a project...
What's invisible technology (the slides)
I presented a short talk at the Ubicomp 2005 workshop on situated computing today. Here's the abstract: The assumption that the goal of ubicomp is to make technology disappear stems from a Modernist ideal of purely utilitarian design that creates...
Projections into the world
I wrote a piece for the July/August issue of ACM interactions. It's a special issue on ambient intelligence and I wanted to share my thoughts about designing for ambient intelligent systems. To me the key is thinking about the design...
What's Invisible Technology?
I just submitted a paper(44K PDF) to a workshop on situated ubiquitous computing at Ubicomp 2005 in September. I just submitted it minutes ago, so it's hot off the presses and may be totally off-base, but I figured I'd share...
Egovernment Usability
I wrote a chapter on egovernment usability for a Macromedia book in 2003. They've summarized and linked a book now.
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