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
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
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
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?