Monthly Archives: January 2008

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design Bill Buxton…. Then he launches into a discussion of what a sketch of an interactive experience is, and gives a number of good examples of interactive sketches and sketching methods.
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Shaping Things

Bruce Sterling’s take on a plausible future in which everything made has a network address, and therefore a documented and documentable history. He takes this vision to its extreme, showing how it changes everything from design to manufacturing to consumption to disposal of material goods.
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IWAR

<p><a href=”http://www.iwar.org.uk/” target=”_other”>IWAR</a> – the Information Warfare site.
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AODV – An Ad Hoc Routing Protocol

From the intro page: “The Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing algorithm is a routing protocol designed for ad hoc mobile networks…. “This could be very useful for certain types of networked objects, when spontaneous and casual connections are needed, along the lines of edstr&#246;m, Holmquist, Dahlberg and Ljungstrand’s Ad Hoc Information Spaces, among others.The Mobility Management and Networking Lab (MOMENT), home of AODV.Elizabeth M.
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Making Things Talk at E-Tech

Brian Jepson and I will be giving a workshop on Making Things Talk at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference this year…. The controller is a variation on some of the projects in the book, and should enable a very special activity that’s not always seen at E-Tech…
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