Blur, Here We Come
The menus are set. The speakers are ready. The technology is coming. Hell, we even have live music and alcohol. Blur is next week – and I think it’s going to be something really special. And here’s the weird part. You won’t...
Garratt Gallagher’s Coming
For several months, I’ve been watching the Kinect hacks community. There were several obvious standouts right off the bat — folks like Oliver Kreylos, Jonathan Hall, and a guy out of MIT’s CSAIL doing some *really* interesting work...
3 Weeks to Blur
We’re three weeks out from Blur — three weeks until a tech conference unlike any other occurs. If you haven’t taken a look at the agenda, do so. From Cynthia Breazeal to Rosalind Picard, from Kinect hacks to robotics, from flying...
Calling All Kinect Hackers
I’ve said before that I think the Kinect is a turning point in the HCI industry. The reasoning is simple: what was expensive hardware/software that was available only to researchers and the well-funded is now commoditized hardware that...
Form, Function and the Future
One of the things I find myself thinking about with regards to Blur lately is “form factor” — which is to say, the move away from the desktop with the keyboard and mouse. Some analyst firm the other day said that 2011 would be...
Blur, Day 1
I’ve never understood how some conferences can have their agenda finalized three or four months prior to the actual event. It’s like a recipe for ensuring that your agenda is out of date. On the other hand, when you get to be about a...
The Hits Just Keep On Coming
I love throwing a first year conference. Don’t get me wrong — I love throwing all of our other conferences (Defrag – yr 5 and Glue – yr 3), but throwing a first year conference is special. The reason: the people coming have...
5 Weeks to Blur
This week marks the “five weeks to blur” point. That means that there’s still plenty of time to book your flight, grab a hotel room and join us. If you decide to do so, what will you be joining? 1. A High-Powered, Intimate...
First-hand Knowledge
As I’ve said in these spaces before, one of the coolest things happening in HCI right now is the Kinect hacks. At Blur, we’ll have folks like Jonathan C. Hall (with his NYT award-winning, OpenKinect hack), the Fluid Interfaces Group...
Location as a Primary Interface Input
I came down with the flu last week. It was ugly. But somewhere amidst that flu-ridden haze, I begun to think about what we really mean when we say “the changing models of human computer interaction.” One of the things that occurred to me...
