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Survey about crowdsourcing

Ana Rink — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:15:21

All designers (especially working on interaction design projects) are invited to respond to the few questions of this survey.

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Bye bye Facebook, hello Diaspora*?

Ana Rink — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:04:10

A decentralized do-it-all social network, called Diaspora* - will it compete with Facebook?

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Incredible edible project - a self-sustaining local food community

Ana Rink — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:42:07

Incredible Edible is a local food community in Todmorden, UK. They plan to gain food independance or the town by 2018.

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Will alternative currency help alleviating the crisis?

Ana Rink — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:57:41

Recently open money and alternative currency movements increased especially due to crisis effects. Will the complementary currencies help us to deal with crisis and to stabilize our economy system?

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Crowdsourcing map

Ana Rink — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:42:15

Crowdsourcing map by Crowdsourcing Results provides a very nice overview of the existing crowdsourcing directions and platforms

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#IAR2010 Milano - augmented reality conference

Ana Rink — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 9:44:56

Yesterday first Augmented Reality conference in Italy took place - IAR2010 - at The Hub Milano.

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Betahaus - build on each others ideas!

Ana Rink — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:02:06

"If you want to make a product relevant, you have to make it open design" - Ronan Kadushin

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Save the Gulf - a platform for conversation

Ana Rink — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:21:01

Save The Gulf is a platform enabling public conversations about urgent problems, for instance the Gulf Spill.

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Wikinomics

Ana Rink — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:09:40

"Do you wanna make your company look like Italy? Don't get me wrong, I love italian food and wine and clothes.. But Italy does not have young people, and that's a huge problem.."- Don Tapscott

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1st place award Sony Ericsson competition

Ana Rink — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:52:35

Yesterday, 22nd march 2010, we won a 1st place award at Sony Ericsson competition "creare con Sony Ericsson" in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano

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Robot Nannies

Ana Rink — Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:03:51

The researcher Noel Sharkey is concerned about use of robots for childcare in the nearest future. His concerns are about ethical questions and safety of the children

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RFID use-cases and abuse-scenarios

Ronny Reichmann — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 8:12:50

A promising resurrection shouldn't necessarily lead to praise. Things everyone should know about RFID.

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10/GUI - a promising proposal

Ronny Reichmann — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:37:06

A fresh idea concerning spatial human computer interaction with gestures and touches, incorporating all 10 fingers.

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Real world data in a virtual world

Ana Rink — Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:18:23

More and more mashups of virtual worlds and real worlds are created nowadays, but what are the advantages of such applications?

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Gesture based touch Interfaces

Ana Rink, Ronny Reichmann — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:13:51

Today there is an increasing number of devices offering touch-gesture-based interaction, but why is it reasonable to use gestures and what kind of gestures are applicable to touch-interaction?

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The independent robotic brain

Ana Rink — Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:25:59

The recent research in artificial intelligence and robotics fields show that the current state of matter is far behind the predictions of the science fiction writers and scientists from the beginning of the XX century.

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