David Chatting's Blog

IDC '09: 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:20:02 BST

Design Classics, The London Underground Map (Smashing Telly - A hand picked TV channel)

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:01:41 BST

Tokyo Tuesday: Japan, right now. | 東京の火曜日

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:48:58 BST

YouTube - Interactive Snow Projection

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:03:56 BST

powerpoint bad for brains - information aesthetics

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:21:00 BST

The Grim Reaper's road map: An atlas of mortality in Britain

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:59:00 BST

bitalizer: Bending bits into structure : by Brian Reavis

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:21:09 BST

THE PLAY COALITION - plantbot

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:16:29 BST

How to sync an iPhone with two (or more) Computers :: Shiny Things

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:41:42 BST

DoomBuggies > Explore the history and marvel at the mystery of Disney's Haunted Mansion attractions!

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:59:59 BST

fit-PC

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:58:38 BST

Grasping a Tangible Future - Business Weekly Blog

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:07:09 BST

Grasping a Tangible Future

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:00:00 BST

In my last blog I talked about how our relationships with others are being mediated by technology, making the usability and simplicity of these system ever more important. Today I'd like to think a little more broadly about new approaches that make computing accessible to all, specifically the potential for Tangible Computing.

These are ideas that have been developed in academic circles for the past twenty years and now beginning to be found in commercial products.

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Martin's Russlings

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:15:59 BST

Sound Comparisons

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:19:52 BST

Accents of English from around the World

Rogue Amoeba - Airfoil: Send Any Audio to the AirPort Express

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:59:01 BST

Communicating Simplicity

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:00:00 BST

Thank you for coming by my new blog, I intend to use this space to share some of my thoughts and I hope that you’ll contribute your own via the comments.

My job at BT is to find innovative new uses for broadband that grow and maintain adoption. I build software and hardware prototypes that we then user-trial. My driving passion is to make technology as simple and fun to use as possible; too often our everyday experiences are neither of these things. I would like to start by talkin [...]

Processing Code for MoteDaemon

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:58:11 GMT

MoteDaemon is a neat Mac OS X app that gets a Wiimote talking to Flash via a socket server, with which these guys have written Wiinstrument.

I have written some Processing (0135 beta) code to work with MoteDaemon v0.5 to get it to talk to Processing too. Download my code here. It works pretty well, but isn’t happy when the nunchuk (and I assume the joypad) are attached - think the xml gets too big to parse at once. That can be fixed.

There are several other solutions to getting a wii to talk to Processing.

Cheers,
Dave

train_clock

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:14:31 GMT

train_clock shows how the "shape" of the UK changes over the day with the coming and going of trains from Ipswich. Each of the "stars" is a different town, where its size reflects the population. As time passes towns move closer as a train is about to arrive and spring back when it leaves. The hands on the outer ring display the time. When shown the rings indicate distance in time, one ring per hour from Ipswich. This sequence shows 24 hours starting and stopping at midnight, using real timetables from one day in October 2007. The sound track is Stellar Music No. 1 by Jenõ Keuler and Zoltán Kolláth, composed from star radiation. This is a Curiosity Collective - http://www.curiositycollective.org - project. It was shown at the Key Arts Video Showcase on Friday 14th December, in Ipswich. train_clock was built using the Processing language and an interactive version can be found at http://www.davidchatting.com/train_clock this version is higher resolution.

Further Experiments with Musical Beer Bottles

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:22:10 GMT

Experiments from the Curiosity Collective in unusual ways of making sound. - read more about it at: http://curiositycollective.org/curiosity/?p=270

Somewhere between Vancouver and Toronto

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:22:48 BST

Somewhere between Vancouver and Toronto

Musical Beer Bottle Experiment

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:52:46 BST

At the Curiosity Collective (www.curiositycollective.org) we are building robot instruments - this is an experiment with a beer bottle and a fan

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams…

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:37:21 GMT

Adam Curtis’ second film in the “The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams…” was shown on BBC 2 tonight. Television at it’s best.

There’s lots I need to think about - to what extent has democracy been replaced by the free-market? How do the metrics we use to “measure” behaviour determine behaviour?

I’ve heard it said that you can see the evolution of the microprocessor through the increasing complexity of architecture it allows, for instance the work of Frank Gehry. Similarly, have our models of human behaviour been necessarily simplistic and can we expect them to improve with increasing computing power? Or is this a flawed and dangerous endeavour?

I’ll give it all some more thought…

My Blog

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:09:44 GMT

OK, so this looks like everything is working now. I realised that although I hadn’t got a proper blog of my own, I had been contributing to quite a few different places, including: curiosity collective, wordpress, del.icio.us, flickr and youtube. So I thought I’d build something to bring them all together and create a blog from them all.

So I’ve built an application in Java to take all these different sources (from RSS) and create a feed with all my contributions together, while tidying it all up and adding extra tags. Using XSL and JavaScript I’ve then taken the combined RSS feed and rendered it as my blog. I’ll make all the code available shortly.

Cheers,
Dave

An Evening of Curiosity

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:51:20 BST

The Curiosity Collective Show, Ipswich, Sunday 6th August 2006

Mouse in a Box

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:52:01 BST

Martin Russ' "Mouse in a Box" Martin says, "Computer mice are normally used for boring things like pointing. But this box turns a mouse into a musical instrument. It also shows you how the mouse turns movement into computer-speak - watch those two green lights as you move the mouse around." Exhibited at the Curiosity Collective Show, Ipswich, 2nd-6th August 2006

Powerbook Puppet

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:06:39 BST

The Curiosity Collective's Powerbook Puppet - using Apple's Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) as a marionette controller.

Making Recognisable Faces

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:00:00 BST

Chatting D J, Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2006 (April 2006)

The Uncanny Valley: does it exist?

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:00:00 BST

Brenton H, Gillies M, Ballin D and Chatting D J, HCI 2005 (September 2005)

The Uncanny Valley: does it exist and is it related to presence?

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:00:00 BST

Brenton H, Gillies M, Ballin D and Chatting D J, Presence-Connect (April 2005)

Prometheus: Facial Modelling, Tracking and Puppetry

Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:00:00 BST

Thorne J M and Chatting D J, Vision, Video and Graphics, University of Bath, UK (July 2003)

Real-time production and delivery of 3D media

Sun, 01 Sep 2002 12:00:00 BST

Price M et al, Proc. International Broadcasting Convention, Amsterdam, Netherlands (September 2002)

Designing User Interaction for Face Tracking Applications

Sat, 01 Jun 2002 12:00:00 BST

Chatting D J and Thorne J M, DSV-IS 2002 (June 2002) Republished in, "Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Interactive Systems" - ISBN: 3540002669

The Prometheus Project - the challenge of disembodied and dislocated performances

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 11:00:00 GMT

Thorne J M and Chatting D J, BT Technology Journal, 20, No 1, pp 85-90 (January 2002) Republished in, "Broadband Applications and the Digital Home" - ISBN: 0852964285.