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Design/Creativity "There are a dozen or so characteristics of exceptionally creative persons. It's useful to note some of them and perhaps reflect on one's own childhood:" Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: creative characteristics
Design/Creativity Artists producing work in the digital medium are no less artists than painters, photographers or sculptors and should be objectively judged by the same criteria as any other artist - craftsmanship, talent and creativity. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: digital art
Design/Education McMaster University has unveiled the first interactive motion simulator to be used for teaching undergraduate students how to develop software for simulated flight, driving, real-time game design, medical research, virtual reality systems, and a host of other applications. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: interactive motion simulator
Design/Education Use of computer user-interactive graphics for teaching aspects of Clinical Pharmacology is an exciting innovation that should help improve speed, depth and enjoyment of learning. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: interactive education
Design/Education A unique surgical gown, which goes on international display in the USA today, should significantly improve understanding of where operation incisions are made, and what they mean to the patient Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: operation gown named Incisions
Design/Imaging A new imaging technique developed at MIT has allowed scientists to create the first 3D images of a living cell, using a method similar to the X-ray CT scans doctors use to see inside the body. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: 3D images of living cells
Design/Imaging The study suggests that the imaging method known as Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) ultrasound might offer a new tool for screening patients at increased risk for liver cancers. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse
Design/Imaging A team of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey unveiled a newly completed map of Antarctica today that is expected to revolutionize research of the continent's frozen landscape. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica, high resolution images
Design/Imaging UNC Asheville is excited to be working with the Forest Service on a project that provides an innovative and dynamic way for people to access information on forest threats. The forest threats summary viewer provides images, threat distribution maps, additional forestry contact information, and brief descriptions about forest threats throughout the eastern U.S. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: Forest Threats Summary Viewer
Design/Imaging Medical imaging informatics is a relatively new multidisciplinary field that intersects with the biological sciences, health services, information sciences, medical physics, and engineering. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: medical imaging infomatics
Design/Imaging In the future doctors will be able to find more tumors at an early stage while using a smaller x-ray dose for each examination. Color x-rays offer new possibilities for medical diagnoses. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: digital color x-rays
Design/Imaging Scientists at the University of Calgary have created the world’s first complete object-oriented computer model of a human body. . . This complete human atlas in four dimensions -- length, width, height and time -- also allows researchers to observe the evolution of illnesses and to view the body's reaction to digital chemicals. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: virtual computer model of the human body
Design/Media "Of course, the interplay of dark and light has been a theme running from Greek and Roman sculpture to Renaissance painting to experimental film. But as technology advanced from the glow of the electric lightbulb to the computer monitor, artists have been experimenting with actual light as material and subject." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: light as an art medium
Design/Media “Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, a series of surrealist experiences has been created for a project called “This is not a shop” (reference: Magritte’s “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”). Link *I think computer interfaces themselves are kind of "surreal things" Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: FAT, Fashion, Architecture, Taste, contemporary art
Design/Photography Computer graphics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed systems for editing or altering photographs using segments of the millions of images available on the Web. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: photoswap, digital photo editing
Design/Photography Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions of pixels) panoramas, called GigaPans. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: gigapans,
panoramic images
Design/Photography But what if your digital camera saw the world through thousands of tiny lenses, each a miniature camera unto itself? You'd get a 2-D photo, but you'd also get something potentially more valuable: an electronic "depth map" containing the distance from the camera to every object in the picture, a kind of super 3-D. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: 3D camera
Design/Products A new breed of industrial designer is confronting Third World poverty with innovative products aimed at encouraging rural entrepreneurs. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: Design for the Other 90 Percent
Design/Products Nothing But Nets, a foundation grantee, has raised millions of dollars to provide anti-malarial bed nets to African families. . . nets that prevent malaria in two ways: they stop the mosquitoes that carry malaria from biting sleeping children, and they're treated with insecticides that kill mosquitoes when they land. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: Nothing But Nets, Send
a Net, Save a Life
Design/Products Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new series of robots that are simple enough for almost anyone to build with off-the-shelf parts, but are sophisticated machines that wirelessly connect to the Internet. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: internet controlled robots
Design/Products What next for touchscreen mobiles? Everyone and their aunt is making one, including Nokia (albeit only next year). However, Sony Ericsson appears to be planning the next step, with a patent for a sliding touchscreen phone. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: mobile interface
Design/Search a new kind of search engine that lets users find items . . . Thanks to a major advance in practical pattern recognition, all the user needs is a freehand sketch Link *Draw what I'm looking for? Works for me. Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: doodle search, sketching search items
Design/Search Think about the semantics used in searching as a sort of lens through which you see matching resources. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: semantic search
Design/Search MIT develops lecture search engine to aid students Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: The Lecture Server
Design/Search "Images are universal, but image search is not," said Oren Etzioni, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. "A person who types his or her search in English won't find images tagged in Chinese, and a Dutch person won't find images tagged in English. We've created a collaborative tool that solves this problem." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: multilingual search tool
Design/Usability VisWeb - the Visual Semanic Web: unifying human and machine knowledge representations with Object-Process Methodology Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: visual semantic web, papers about
Object Process Methodology
Design/Usability "Improving drug labels is an issue that sits at the intersection of health literacy and patient safety. The variability of dosing instructions on labels is a source of confusion among patients, which could lead to adverse drug events." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: standardizing dosing instructions for prescription medication labels
Design/Usability/Blogs "In a first-of-its-kind study, UC Irvine researchers have provided new insight into blog readers’ online habits and experiences, as well as how they perceive their roles in blog-based communities." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: research on blog readers
Design/Usability/Seniors "It is crucial to make certain that online health and medical information is structured in a way that would enable users to find the information easily and efficiently." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: information architecture for seniors
Design//Usability/Visual Clutter Now, a team of MIT scientists has identified a way to measure visual clutter. Their research, published Aug. 16 in the Journal of Vision, could lead to more user-friendly displays and maps, as well as tips for designers seeking to add an attention-grabbing element to a display. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: design and visual clutter
Design//Usability/Web 2.0 Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: Web 2.0 usability
Design/Visualization Residents of Italy's capital will glimpse the future of urban mapmaking next month with the launch of "Wiki City Rome," a project developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that uses data from cellphones and other wireless technology to illustrate the city's pulse in real time. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: urban mapmaking
Design/Visualization Information graphics reveal the hidden, explain the complex and illuminate the obscure. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: infographics
Design/Visualization A great deal of time and money must therefore be invested before the product is ready to go on the market. Tomorrow’s engineers will have a much easier time: They can simply create virtual prototypes and simulate all the functions in a virtual world. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: virtual prototypes
Design/Visualization “It’s my passion to bring this esoteric science to large audiences in meaningful and beautiful ways,” Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: scientific visualization
Design/Visualization a timeline of art history Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: interactive timeline
Design/Visualization A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: visualization methods, visual literacy
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