[IxDA Discuss] Examples of Advancements in Design

2008-06-22 Thread J. Ambrose Little
Hi folks, Following up on the recent thread about higher degrees in design and such, I find myself very curious to know about how current or past research/higher degrees have already advanced interaction design. Do you all have any examples of, e.g., dissertations, theses, acadmic projects, or

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of Advancements in Design

2008-06-22 Thread Christine Boese
I'm a bit out of the loop for recent, but just to rail off a few from the top of my head: Moodle, the open source e-learning courseware support platform, has arisen largely from academic research into pedagogical interface design. Most of the best research into advanced VR interfaces and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of Advancements in Design

2008-06-22 Thread Donna M. Fritzsche
Hi Cristine and all, Interesting discussion and points, Actually fairly equivalent precursors to Google were invented pre-1990 by the folks at Thinking Machines (notably, Danny Hillis, Brewster Kahle, Craig Stanfill and David Waltz). The program ran on massively parallel computers on about 5

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of Advancements in Design

2008-06-22 Thread Christine Boese
Thanks Donna! Interesting info and historical perspective. Dunno which part of Google is limited to interaction design, but would we love the basic interaction of a single uncluttered text entry field for searching if it didn't have the screaming fast Google back-end and algorithms behind it?