Let’s try this school thing again
I’m back in Pittsburgh after a wonderful time in San Francisco. The weather was blissful – it stopped raining as I took BART up from SFO, and stayed warm and clear for the week. I saw many friends – old and new – and ate well (new discoveries were Sunflower (Vietnamese), Mamasan (sushi), and Tartin [...]
Inputs
A Directory of Sources for Input Technologies Bill Buxton is developing this taxonomy of input devices for a book that he’s working on. An input device I’ve been using lately is a little MIDI keyboard called an Oxygen 8. It has lots of knobs that allow you to control various parameters in music sampling, sequencing, [...]
Einstein’s Dreams
One of the great things about grad school is that you’re given the opportunity to step back and explore the bigger things that influence our experiences and interactions in the world. In my Interface/Interaction Design class, we’re creating interfaces/devices for timekeeping. We’re in the early stages, so I’ve been thinking a lot about different aspects [...]
Oh what a program
Wow. This is an amazing program and exactly what I’d hoped for. The teachers rock, classes are interesting, and the students in my program as well as in the HCI and the ETC programs tend to be open-minded, interesting, and insightful. There’s a nice interdisciplinary bent here at Carnegie Mellon, which makes it a welcoming [...]
First Day of School
School starts today. It’s been a while. Wish me luck.