Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category
Stimulant’s Nathan Moody on SXSW 2010 “Beyond the Desktop” Panel
Going to South by Southwest (SXSW) this year? Check out the Beyond the Desktop panel on Monday, March 15 at 3:30pm.
Hosted by Adaptive Path's Peter Merholz, our design director, Nathan Moody, will be honored to chat with such luminaries as Michele Parras of the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre, David Merrill from Sifteo (the group behind Siftables), and Johnny Lee (of WiiMote hacking fame) of Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group.
We expect the panel discussion will be cover a lot of ground between research and application, private and public computing, mobile and installation experiences, and a great overview of how human-computer interactions are evolving beyond the traditional desktop form factor. For more updates, follow @stimulant at Twitter and don't hesitate to reach out directly by emailing us at sxsw10 [at] stimulant [dot] io ... and definitely say hello if you find yourself in Austin, too!
From the Labs: XRay integrates Apple iPhone and Microsoft Surface
When Microsoft showed SecondLight at PDC 2008, we were inspired to make something similar work with our current Surface unit. What you see here is a prototype that takes advantage of Surface's object recognition capabilities to recognize the position of one or more iPhones on the Surface, and allows those phones to "see through" the images and reveal a second layer of information. The possibilities here are fairly extensive; what's most interesting to us is the potential for adding a layer of personalized information on top of a public computing experience. This could enable users to capture content and take it with them, or to have the system display a personalized information layer (translated text/larger-print type/private messages) for individual users of a multi-user system.
iPhone was the first mobile platform we dug in to, but we've also got XRay working on Android-based and Windows Mobile-based phones as well. Big props to Josh for pulling this all together, and to long-time friend Arthur Mount for the use of his fantastic illustrations.
MIXr Mobile Networking App
How are you feeling? Where can you go to match your mood...and when? These are complex, location-based questions that our MIXr social networking application helps to answer.
Social networking isn't usually about being social in the real world. When Microsoft asked us to re-imagine what a location-aware, mobile user experience could be for the MIX08 Conference keynote, we wanted to put the "social" back in social networking.
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Stimulant conceives, designs, and develops digital experiences that inspire wonder for places, contexts, and devices where none usually exists. From desktop to device, multi-touch to mobile, we employ both trusted and emerging technologies to engage users and establish solid business value.
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