Re: [IxDA Discuss] Maria T. De Monte wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2010-01-11 Thread Maria De Monte
Good question, Will... I probably added Ravi to my address book with the general address of IXDA. Apologizes to all the group for any inconvenience this have may caused... I'll change the address immediately. Thank you for noticing. Cheers, Maria Da: Will

[IxDA Discuss] Tactile and haptic informations from online platforms to deaf users

2009-10-14 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello folks, I'm working on an online tool destinated to deaf users, and I've been questioning myself rather there is a better way to convey information to them then text or animation or whatever involves the pure visual communication. I wonder if anyone of you has information about similar

[IxDA Discuss] [Conan Team to IXDA members]: Paying job posts to fund IXDA activitiesother issues

2009-05-18 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello IxDA members, IxDA is considering undertaking a partnership with Coroflot (http://www.coroflot.com/) to handle the job-related posts that now come through our discussion list. We need your input on this question! Coroflot has hosted the Job Board at both Interaction

[IxDA Discuss] Starting up a local group in Florence (Italy)

2009-03-18 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello Folks, I'm looking forward to start-up a new IXDA Local group based in Florence. I have absolutely no idea of how many people living or passing by Florence could be interested. I'm pretty sure there could be somebody interested in Siena, but blank for all the rest. I'd also like to hear

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

2009-03-10 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello there, interesting post... I've been questioning myself about the utility of personas as well, especially when working with engineers not used to using them in the design phase. However, I still believe they are, and will remain, useful in each design phase: there will always be a moment in

[IxDA Discuss] Accessible Ajax chat for blind users

2009-02-12 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello folks, just wondering if anyone out there has tried the real accessibility of ReefChat, the ultimate Google product to make Ajax chat accessible http://reefchat.overscore.com/ I've been giving it a try with my colleagues here in the Lab, but it seems like this works like any other

[IxDA Discuss] I: Traffic Building Domain Name

2009-02-11 Thread Maria De Monte
I suppose this is spam, is it??? - Messaggio inoltrato - Da: Charles Claybrooks mrcdowntobusin...@yahoo.com A: disc...@ixda.org Inviato: Martedì 10 febbraio 2009, 21:31:10 Oggetto: [IxDA Discuss] Traffic Building Domain Name Hello, my name is Mr. Charles Claybrooks Are you seeking

[IxDA Discuss] researching researchers

2009-01-15 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello folks, I've been targeting researchers for the development of an online cooperative tool lately, and discovered how hard it is to find informations on researchers as users. It seems like the sacred world of science and research is out of any schema, any sort of question, anything...

Re: [IxDA Discuss] MacBook Wheel: I can't wait!

2009-01-09 Thread Maria De Monte
Well well, seems like we are in the midst of a misunderstanding due to different cultural background and well packed fake informations... I've noticed many news given by onion are also spotted on youtube, commented and given as real news... Is that how reality and imagination merge in the

[IxDA Discuss] [JOB SEARCH]: 3D modeler in NYC

2009-01-09 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello folks, doing this for a very good friend of mine who is a junior 3D modeler and designer just arrived in New York and looking for some good job experience. Have you any idea of hiring companies or good hints about places where she could possibly send a self-candidate letter? Many thanks

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Calendars integration online

2008-12-19 Thread Maria De Monte
(and a few other applications) does also the opposite. Should you have any idea about it, they'd be very apreciated. Maria Da: john.mo...@eduserv.org.uk john.mo...@eduserv.org.uk A: Maria De Monte mtdemo...@yahoo.it Inviato: Giovedì 18 dicembre 2008, 23:36:26

[IxDA Discuss] good examples for disability and web 2.0??

2008-12-19 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello folks, talking about web 2.0 and its moving toward a 3.0 era, I've been questioning myself about how web 2.0 has prompted accessibility problems by people with disabilities. It seems to me, in fact, that disability matters are still solved with classic solutions. However, I think the

[IxDA Discuss] Calendars integration online

2008-12-18 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello Folks, have a question for you... I am actually developing an on line working platform, and a few of the potential users I surveyed has asked for an on line calendar that could interact and integrate local calendars such as that from Outlook, Thunderbird and so on. I'm pretty sure

[IxDA Discuss] 1st reminder: CALL FOR PAPER: aaate 2009 conference

2008-12-02 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello there, I already posted this last month, but there could probably be someone new in the Forum who could be interested, so I'm re-posting this call for paper. I also take the chance to launch a proposal: It'd be cool to meet if some of you is working in Italy. Just come up in some way

[IxDA Discuss] stop trying

2008-12-02 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello there, here is a challenge I'm going through in these days and that I would like to share and discuss with you. I work on designing web ( and actually web 2.0) interfaces in a universal design perspective. This brings all sort of problems and challenges, testing products with all sort

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fan box

2008-11-17 Thread Maria De Monte
with, but I think the concept is not bad... Da: Terry Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Maria De Monte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Forum Interaction Design Ixda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: Lunedì 17 novembre 2008, 12:14:49 Oggetto: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fan box

[IxDA Discuss] Fan box

2008-11-17 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello folks, what do you think about this www.fanbox.com I'm not in the development team, so my interest is not in selling the site. I just think is a good piece of design and would like to know your opinion about it. Maria Unisciti alla community di Io fotografo e video, il nuovo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing Social Interactions

2008-10-31 Thread Maria De Monte
I believe we still cannot design a mediated social interaction as the tools used for this purposes are still evolving and changing their shape continuously. The example of the conversation in a pub (do you want fries?) or in a prison comes from the normalisation effect of the use. You can

[IxDA Discuss] O3 spaces, Phpprojekt, Openexchange, Horde and accessibility

2008-10-29 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello to all, I'm working on the development of a community platform with high concerns about usability and accessibility. I am actually comparing and trying different systems like O3 spaces, Phpprojekt, Openexchange and Horde. Do anyone of you have working/developer experience with these

[IxDA Discuss] R: Interstitial Cross-Selling

2008-10-29 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello John, I think I got the pic of what you're talking about. Take a look at www.repubblica.it. If you click on any of the news listed there, you will receive an advertising page that also allows you to go straight to the news (vai all'articolo). Also a few greeting cards websites uses

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IA Paris - Nov. 2, 2008

2008-10-27 Thread Maria De Monte
auff.. will be in Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] end of November... will have to miss this! :-( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34856

[IxDA Discuss] Liferay

2008-10-27 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello folks, is there anyone out there who has used or is using Liferay platform? How was your experience with it and what are your opinions about its usability and accessibility? Thanks, Maria Scopri il blog di Yahoo! Mail: Trucchi, novità e scrivi la tua opinione.

[IxDA Discuss] CALL FOR PAPER: aaate 2009 conference

2008-10-27 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello there,   For those of you interested in e-Inclusion, Design for All/Universal Design, here is an event that will take place in Florence Italy, in summer 2009.   Few topics: Technological innovation in Assistive Technology;The need for interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre

2008-02-29 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello N... yes, your hint was very interesting... Actually I'm still exploring the domains of application of my ideas about theatre and Interaction Design. As I can see so far, they still obey to apparently different laws, for what they have many points in common and would have a lot to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre

2008-02-22 Thread Maria De Monte
Sorry for being a little late in replying, but I was kinda busy keeping track of your replies and direction... so first of all, thank you all for your suggestions. I will surely go straight on reading Brenda Laurel's books and Chauncey Wilson's detailed list of articles. Jeff Howard exactly got

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre

2008-02-22 Thread Maria De Monte
Alain, I mean keeping in mind HCI while writing the script, using videos, recorder music, mic, projections as actors in the play, and well... So I would say probably the best anwer to 'You incorporated HCI in the script of the play that you wrote, and perhaps also in the stage instructions to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre

2008-02-22 Thread Maria De Monte
Andrew, Patrick... I am contacting thos who you signaled... I'll post what comes up next... Thanks once more... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26112

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-20 Thread Maria De Monte
I agree with Loren. The freedom of creating in interacting with these kind of instruments can actually open the way to new form of expression, not written in rules. This could open to a new sense of art in what comes from the Human-Machine interaction. - Messaggio originale - Da: Loren

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design and Theatre

2008-02-19 Thread Maria De Monte
Hello, just wondering... does anyone of you has information about interaction design studies applied to theatre? I've tried to put up a show using human-machine interaction principles a couple years ago, and the results were astonishing. I'd like to keep on working in this sense of direction.