Tangible Kabuki at GeekCon 2007

This was Feng-GUI GeekCon2007 project. Thanks to:
Project members: Rafael Mizrahi, Dani Vardi, Tal Yaniv and Eyal "Person" Shachar.
Performers: Dror Gill, Ayelet Yagil, Zvi Devir and Jeff Pulver.
Photographers: Yaniv Golan and Alex Sirota.

1. The TangibLaptop is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a laptop tangible multi-touch interface built by the GarageGeeks (Rafael Mizrahi, Ohad Pressman and Eyal "Person"). inspired by the reactable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReacTable



2. The GeekCon un-convention get-together is a creative gathering happening with a goal to form a critical mass of technically oriented creative talented people that will think up, create and deploy ideas. Or it’s a short summer camp for geeks… Take your pick.




1+2=3. Taking it one step further, instead of using physical small hand size objects, YOU will be the players in a musical part by wearing masks. Together, we create a musical part where you can take part by wearing fiducial masks detected by the Tangible laptop.




Reflections:
More Tangible Kabuki images at Flikr tagged with "Tangible Kabuki"

More GeekCon 2007 images at Flikr tagged with geekcon2007

Banner Blindness by Dr. Jakob Nielsen

An article by Dr. Jakob Nielsen from http://www.useit.com

The most prominent result from the new eyetracking studies is not actually new. We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real. Users almost never look at anything that looks like an advertisement, whether or not it's actually an ad.

Users rarely look at display advertisements on websites. Of the four design elements that do attract a few ad fixations, one is unethical and reduces the value of advertising networks.

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Feng-GUI at The 40 coolest free applications around

Seopher: reviewing and discussing Linux, internet marketing and blogging,
recommends Feng-GUI ViewFinder heatmap service in a list of 40 cool and free applications.

http://seopher.com/articles/the_40_coolest_free_applications_around

thanks Seopher!

Feng-GUI at Israel NRG newspaper

Feng-GUI at Israel NRG newspaper
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/10/ART1/614/158.html

thanks to Ophir Hechter for the news.

Feature integration theory

The most influential psychological models of human visual attention.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_integration_theory

Issues of Saliency and Recognition in the Search for Web Page Bookmarks

Alex has published his great Masters Thesis on:
"Issues of Saliency and Recognition in the Search for Web Page Bookmarks"

to provide empirically-determined guidelines for web producers on how to title pages in order to optimise the recognition of bookmarks by users, and to increase the rate of revisitation as a result.

Google Images Search for faces

Google didn't buy riya and bought neven vision adding a face recognition to the Images Search service.
For example you can search for Paris in general
or search for Paris Hilton
Just add the imgtype=face to the search query.

Napolux top 10 for web designers

We wish to thank Napolux.com which rated Feng-GUI FireFox extension at the top 10 free and open source tools for web designers.

http://www.napolux.com/2007/05/21/10-tools-gratuiti-eo-opensource-per-il-webdesign

Google eye-counting video camera

Google unveiled an eye-counting video camera that could enable the company to extend its highly successful online business model to brick-and-mortar advertisers.

The Eyebox was developed by Xuuk Inc.(Kingston, Ontario).

Using its PageRank technology, Google (Mountain View, Calif.) has been able to collect revenue from advertisers based on the number of ads on which people are clicking.

Now with the Eyebox, Google can determine which billboards or products people are looking at (32 feet range) in mall corridors or on store shelves, and count them in the same manner that Google counts clicks for online ads.