A growing collection of stuff I read and though about.
Books
“I miss my Pencil” Martin Bone and Kara Johnson http://imissmypencil.com/
“Design Noir – The Secret Life of Electronic Objects” Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby
Articles
O. Frank on Predictive Context Device http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=144077
Projects
Cities
http://foursquare.com/
http://gowalla.com/
Essay: Mitchell Schwarzer – A Sense of Place, A World of Augmented Reality
http://www.earthmine.com/ New “google street view” technology for true-3D
Kids
Cities and Kids – India aProCH, Kiran Bir Sethi
TED talk by Kiran Bir Sethi
Concorso italiano per raccogliere storie didattiche nelle scuole http://www.policultura.it/cosa.html
Interaction Design for Kids Conference – IDC 2010
HOC – Hypermedia Open Center, Politecnico di Milano, they’re working on interactive storytelling for kids.
Tech Lab, Switzerland – People developing the technology. The software is called 1001Stories and enables production of little multimedia objects (pictures + text + audio rec) and output them as a website + ITunes app + CD. The multimedia obj need some redesign, both graphic and interaction wise, here an example in italian.
PoliCultura – A project with some italian schools using the technology described above.
Books and Paper
PhoneBook – Iphone inside a book, for kids.
Enhanced Editions – Ebooks for Iphone.
Les Edition Volumiques – Experiments with computational paper.
Colors Magazine – Augmented Reality experiments
Le monde des montagnes – Book augmented with beautiful animations (AR).
Hirngespinster – Book augmented with beautiful animation (Reactivision).
Data Visualization
Data visualization is reinventing online storytelling – article
