Here at the Edinburgh International Games Festival and just seen an invigorating keynote by Steve Schnur, head of music for EA.
Basically his pitch is that games are the new medium for the promulgation and promotion of popular music.
A choice quote:
“In a typical EA sports game: songs rotate 2x an hour of gameplay, and games are approx 50 hours of game play. A song featured in fifa will be played 700million times… more than any no.1 record in any country.
Here are my rough notes:
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He’s given an excellent talk on how campus design and design for learning spaces have been changed by wifi and ubiquitous computing.
He gave a great quote by Charles Moore when showing Gehry’s new MIT Stata Centre:
“the fundamental principle of campus design should be to figure out the exact spot that the next revolution should begin”
More notes below, by Dan Hill and myself. Links and pictures to follow.
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Heading to Boston this afternoon to attend DIS2004. Looking forward particularly to a papers session entitled “Please touch: Tangible UIs” which should be really interesting for us working on that area at Nokia. Also, should be a few familiar faces there to catch up with, and hopefully meet some new friends too. Drop me a line or leave a comment if you’re there.
I’ll be chairing the Hardware panel at NotCon in London on Sunday:
- Telling the time (not very accurately) using a Marks & Spencer prawn sandwich and a BBC micro
– James Larsson- New hardware/software developments on the Sinclair Spectrum
– Matt Westcott- Why Interactive telly isn’t the Web, why it never will be, and why that’s good
– George Wright- How to Email Your Video (and other things to make your home come alive – literally)
– Steven Goodwin- Camera-Phones: the only remote control you’ll ever need
– Anil Madhavapeddy
I guess the plan is that a user-experience guy confronted by hardware hackers should make for an interesting debate. Hope to see you there…
Sat here in Hannover being a dazzled CeBIT newbie.
It’s big.
It’s bigger than big. It’s huge.
We’re going to need a bigger boat.
Done my bit for my Finnish overlords this morning, so off for a wander to see what frisbees and squishy toys I can amass.
Will try and report back as long as I don’t get lost…
Raw notes:
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Marc Smith of Microsoft in his Etech keynote on social spaces online:
“if you’re 1 in a million, then there are 768 of you on the internet”
On Usenet:
“It’s not dead, it may be unwell. However, [its] 23 years as a standing structure for conversation is remarkable.”
Fantastic.
My tutorial session at Etech 2004 was yesterday.
Thanks to everyone who threw themselves into the workshop, and created some great ideas with the techniques we went through. The slide-set is here if you’re interested [caution, 7.2 megs powerpoint file!]
Thanks to everyone who helped me put it together, both in terms of encouragement, criticism and material: Foe, Stewart, Marc Rettig, and Nico Macdonald.
And huge thanks to Chris Heathcote for helping run the workshops and generally saving my life!
The great thing is the stress is over on the first day, as compared to last year where I presented on the last day; so I can enjoy the rest of the event!
There’s a surfeit of live blogging and feeds of various kinds, so I’ll probably only post things of specific note to me, rather than generic coverage…
William Mitchell
ME++: The cyborg self and the networked city
Tate Modern
19.11.2003
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Chris has just got back from Mobile HCI in Italy – more notes will follow he says, but for now he has rough notes from a ‘visions ofthe future’ panel. Example tidbit:
“Harri Kiljander (director of UI), Nokia
Content management – how do we manage, use ~1 Gb of content on a mobile?”
Blimey.
Petafloptimism 