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June 30, 2007
Frontiers of Interaction III: the internet of people.
Frontiers of Interaction is a free conference/seminar created by Matteo Penzo and Leandro Agrò that offered very good food for hungry brains: sharing knowledges and experiences in the fantastic world of interaction design. This year the focus of the conference was on the "Internet of Things and, to me, the event have been the real expression of the "Internet of People ( more than just the "Internet of Things ), because a lot of contributors ( from speakers to helpers to audience ) shared ideas, visions, efforts and experiences creating good feeling to be part of a real human community. These relationships among people ( mostly generated through Internet tools ) are always growing up reaching interesting results in terms of approaching to future challenges, both professional and social. In terms of contents, speakers at "Le Frontiere ( the Italian shortname we use for "Frontiers of Interaction ) presented short, clear and also funny talks different points about emerging research and working fields into the interaction design: from networked handheld device ecosystems to networked rabbits or from touchless interfaces to secondlife scenarios. For infovis people, I think that the most interesting aspectes could be related into the exploration of new way to understand and to represent relationships among humans and things bearing in mind of simplicty, mobile, natural interaction and physical computing, maybe investigating new tools such as the nabaztag.
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June 27, 2007
Search Crystal: search among documents and formats
The blog needed an update after more than 40 days and so its time to introduce you a new service.
Search Crystal is a free Flash based web application that shows some nice tools, to filter and organize search results from: web, images, videos, news, blogs, tags, mash-ups. It aims to offer a comprehensive interactive overview among several sources of different formats.
The software displays information using the focus context techinque and using the Target metaphore. This its really interesing also because the same approach have been used in a prototype ( published in a conference paper in early 2002 ) for the DesignNet project with which share one same issue: the display and the aggreagtion of contents of different formats.
Even the use of some feature ( like the spiral, the rotation of results, the zooming, etc... ) offers some interesting possibilities, in terms of User Experience I think that the software needs of a deeper work and some more efforts to reduce the distance among its functions and users expectations.
One good point, even if not so original, is the ability to include Search Crystal in your own web site, simply adding a piece of code.
As usuall, you can have a look to some screenshots collected from the application.
Give it a try 
http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/2007/06/27/search-crystal-search-among-documents-and-formats/
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