Aug 10th 09
SIGGRAPH’09: The Information Aesthetics Panel(s)
The SIGGRAPH 2009 conference this year is trying out a new exhibition theme in the form of the “information aesthetics showcase“. In the interview with infosthetics posted a while ago, the showcase curator Victoria Szabo revealed how this came about: the conference jury saw a lot of amazing information-driven work that did not fit the specific theme of the show, or demonstrate any one...
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Aug 10th 09
SIGGRAPH’09: Citymurmur New Orleans
The citymurmur project [citymurmur.org] attempts to map the conceptual and cultural layers of urban space based on media aggregation. The web application perdiodically scans the text of online news items for place or street names in the city of interest, and extracts keywords and categories. The resulting combination of conceptual and geographical information can be explored in map overlays –...
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Aug 10th 09
SIGGRAPH’09: The Information Aesthetics Showcase Exhibition
For the first time, SIGGRAPH has adopted the theme of “information aesthetics“. Part of this theme was a physical exhibition, curated by Victoria Szabo. The exhibition space was open and less busy and stuffy like some of the rooms where the Emerging Technologies demonstrations happened in, one floor above. Computer screens, posters, large projection displays and even some physical artifacts...
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Aug 9th 09
Web Trend Map v4.0
In 2007 the strategic design agency Information Architects (iA), based in Tokyo, Japan, launched their first Web Trend Map (of a future series of 4). Although they were candid enough with their first version, stating that it was “totally unscientific and almost useless, but definitely fun to look at”, they ended up realizing the popularity of the project. What started as a playful Christmas...
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Aug 9th 09
AlloSphere
Visualizing, hearing and exploring complex multi-dimensional data provides insight that is essential for progress in a number of critical areas of science and engineering, where the amount and complexity of the data overwhelm traditional computing environments. The need for richer and more compelling visualizations continues to receive attention from many practitioners and institutions.
To face some...
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Patrick is an accomplished Sr. User Interface Developer and Architect specializing in Web Applications, Web 2.0 and eLearning with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including project planning, design, testing, client communications, training, de-bugging, implementation and maintenance. His book, Modern Ui, Social Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond is in production and will be available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon as well as many other fine retailers in Winter 2009-2010.
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