Small pools rigged with sensors interpret water-based interaction and spark ambient cues to encourage you to swim when others enter their pools.
Quotes about Politics and Connection
It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.—Colin Powell
The importance of being connected
The Internet made three big promises to humanity when it went mainstream over a decade ago. Most people focus on two of these – it was to provide universal access to information and revolutionize the global economy. For me, the Internet was always about the third promise: personal connection.
Designing What’s Next
A central theme of disconnection between theory and practice was meant as a call to HCI theorists to improve both the communication and the pragmatics of technique. That disconnection applies in the other direction, too, in how we perceive and intervene in the evolution of the World Wide Web. Perhaps we need a little more theory in our practice of predicting the future.