I’m really digging this story at the New York Times, about five neuroscientists who went on a rafting trip down the San Juan River, ostensibly to study the effects of disconnecting with the “digital” world. It sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s actually pretty neat. Mr. Strayer, the trip leader, argues that […]
Author Archives: Dane
Did you hear the one about the five neuroscientists who went on a rafting trip?
August 16, 2010 – 12:32 am
The West
August 4, 2010 – 1:09 am
I may be honing in on part of why I find the American West, not only the landscape but also its people and history, so interesting. And history not necessarily in the wars fought or the great leaders and historic influencers and such, but in the everyday sense. What did people, regular people, do out […]
The City Eats Its Own
July 26, 2010 – 9:58 pm
As one who loves beautiful, old, historic things, and as one who loves American city architecture from the early 1900s, and as one who lived in Oregon for five years, and as one who has a massive crush on Portland, and as one who loves books and needs to be pried from Powell’s with a […]
Hans and Umbach: Exploring the Boundary Between Physical and Digital
July 15, 2010 – 1:38 am
My final semester of graduate school is now long over, I have spent the last few weeks immersed in the awesome culture that is Adaptive Path, and yet embodied interaction continues to dominate my thoughts. Today I have been reviewing my notes from the Hans and Umbach project, after using a terminal command to combine […]
A Modest Update
July 4, 2010 – 3:03 pm
Hello all. A lot has happened since we last spoke. We now live in Berkeley, a great little town where the people seem to not like much of anything. I now work as an experience designer for Adaptive Path in their San Francisco office. It is truly awesome. We have our own unique culture. We […]
Hans and Umbach: Miscellaneous thoughts regarding the embodied future of interaction design.
June 12, 2010 – 12:57 am
Okay. It’s been awhile. I’ve taken some time off. From this, as well as from embodied interaction. But let’s get back at it. Embodied interaction, that is. I’ve had quite some time to decompress about this, take a pause and see what sort of ideas keep bubbling to the surface. And the results are not […]
These are all true statements.
May 20, 2010 – 6:46 pm
We are done with graduate school. We are moving to San Francisco. We are road tripping across the country. We are currently in Moab, Utah. The best way to keep track of us is through Twitter. Or through Kate’s blog.
Outside In: Evoking a Sense of the Natural World in Indoor Spaces
April 28, 2010 – 7:32 am
Last night I delivered my thesis presentation, effectively completing my master’s degree in human-computer interaction design. Over the last seven months I’ve been conducting a design exploration into the ways we find nature meaningful to us, and uncovering ways to enliven indoor environments with a sense of the outdoors. Here is the 20-minute presentation: A […]
Hans and Umbach: The Virtual World You Requested Does Not Exist
April 21, 2010 – 5:13 pm
Our interests in embodied interaction started almost a year ago, as we spent the summer in San Francisco. Confronted by the overwhelming colors and textures of a real living-and-breathing (and, based on olfactory sensations, clearly excreting) city, we realized how malnourished our computer-mediated interactions were, compared to the rich sensory experience of the real, physical […]
Hans and Umbach: The Role of Metaphor in Embodied Interaction
April 18, 2010 – 10:46 pm
Through their research, Hans and Umbach have discovered that there is no shortage of brilliant work summarizing the primary concepts of embodied interaction. From Antle to Schiphorst, from Dourish to Hornecker, from Robertson to Sharlin to Lowgren to Fernaeus to Djajadiningrat to Fishkin, everyone seems to be reading the right stuff. Everyone is talking about […]
