Embodied Interaction Workshop at IDC 2009

Keeping a look out for the conference on Interaction Design for Children, which I have been wanting to attend for years. My last chance was with a paper on MEDIATE, but got beaten to it by the most prolific disseminator in the project, Narcis Pares.

However, Alissa N. Antles's works sounds intriguing and I shall look here up some more (one of the co-organisors of the Embodied Interaction Workshop. The other two are Ylva Fernaeus and Paul Marshall, who I met at the Human-Centred Technology Workshop and who does interesting work on tangible interfaces and children.). Regarding Antle, particularly the key words "embodied schemata and conceptual metaphors in interaction design for interactive environments and designing to support epistemic action in tangible user interfaces." have caught my attention.

http://www.interaction-design.org/references/authors/alissa_n__antle.html

Media Archaeology Festival

This might find in with recent discussions I've been having with my colleagues about archiving digital media projects. There are obvious hindrances such as out-of-date technology that makes it impossible to display lovingly crafted interactive experiences after a few years. There is also the issue of a perceived need to describe art works and design in words - with artifacts designed to be seen and experienced, a translation into a logocentric mode may result in a loss or distortion of the original vibrance.

The Media Archaeology Festival looks at the evolution of Live Visuals (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Houston, USA, 2009)

http://www.aurorapictureshow.org/

On closer inspection the above is not the issue at the core of the Media festival, however both interesting

Haptics blogs

Bloggers with an interest in Haptics

Angela Chang - M.I.T. alumni, communications technology/media art sciene
http://www.anjchang.com/anjblog/index.html

Andrew Sargeant - Student at Plymouth University
http://www.evolvingthought.com/blog/