Tag Archives: research

How will human emotions be affected when they are encountered with a virtual replica?

 

[tweetmeme]Reading the interactive design news I discovered W3C research, released for public view and feedback on October 29th, 2009. W3C created the first draft of the Emotion Markup Language 1.0, conceived as a “plug-in” language for use in three different … Continue reading →

 

Facilitation

 

Job requirement: Facilitation I got worked up in a tizzy recently and had to have a drink with international sex symbol Dennis Wixon. I told Dennis that some of our lab work (which includes protocol analysis and RITE method) can … Continue reading →

 

What to Know About Designing for China

 

Who is the intended audience? The audience for this article is primarily professionals in product management and development, innovation, R&D, product and product portfolio planners, engineers, and executives who are responsible for designing and creating technology products (hardware, software, services). … Continue reading →

 

Designing Products for Emerging Markets: On-Demand DesignCast

 

#emerging_markets #webinar #mobile #artefactgroup [tweetmeme]If you missed the live webcast/webinar/stream by Masuma and Martijn on Designing Products for Emerging Markets, you can now download the video file for your own viewing pleasure at mydesignshop.com Here’s the description of what you’ll … Continue reading →

 

Sticky Commerce: 3 Things Retailers Can Observe from the Gaming Community

 

#retention #wom #community #stickiness #ecommerce [tweetmeme]We are constantly learning about how we want to gain people’s attention through better SEO strategies or by participating in “the” conversation though 140 character impressions, but there is another half: the sticky strategy. In … Continue reading →

 

IIT Design Research Conference 2009: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Future

 

Co-authored by Kevin Wong A couple weeks ago, Ken and Rob packed their Speedos and traveled to South Beach to attend the IDSA International Conference. This past week, Kevin and I packed our appetites for fatty food and traveled to … Continue reading →

 

A Missed Opportunity for the Gaming Industry: Kids

 

The gaming industry is missing the boat. Kids are super engaged with video games, but their excitement and expertise hasn’t been leveraged to help acquire new audiences or influence parents to buy more games. Let’s consider these data from a … Continue reading →

 

Musical Forest: A Multitouch Experience for Kids

 

Musical Forest: An Artefact Experiment from Artefact on Vimeo. Us Artefactians regularly dabble in new user experiences outside of our daily client work that explore areas such as unfamiliar target audiences, new technologies, new UI mechanisms, or themes that spark … Continue reading →

 

Artefact Will Be Attending IIT Design Research Conference in Chicago!

 

Heads up guys, Gabe and I will be attending the Design Research Conference on October 1st through the 2nd. For those of you who are also attending, or thinking of attending, let us know! This is going to be a … Continue reading →

 

Future of Automotive – Intelligent Access

 

[tweetmeme]Gizmodo recently posted news about an android application that enables drivers to augment what they see from the car with turn-by-turn directions. Cool application, but in an era where we may already have too many driving distractions, it got me … Continue reading →