Physical Computing, the cover album
Some live blog quotes from a writeup of Tom Igoe's talk at Sketching in Hardware '08:
Physical Computing's Greatest Hits: the wheels that people reinvent again and again (in rough order)
- theremin-like instruments
- drum gloves (tangible vs intangible)
- dance floors
- Scooby-Doo paintings: paintings that react to presence (easy to sense presence, hard to sense attention)
- body-as-cursor
- video mirrors (aka, hand wavers, because people always wave their hands)
- mechanical pixels
- hand-as-cursor (aka Minority Report)
- multi-touch surfaces (exercise: operate an iPhone while it's in your pocket)
- tilty stands and tables
- tilty controllers
- things you yell at
- meditation helpers
- fields of grass (running your hand across it affects it)
- dolls and pets
- remote hugs
- LED fetishism
"these are really design patterns"
"what they have in common: 10 second space of expertise achievement, so they all feel the same"
