Saul's Video Bookmarks
These are bookmarks to assorted videos I have seen and, for one reason or another, didn't want to lose.
Historic
The Dark Side
- Sight - the dark side of augmented reality
Inspirational
- Randy Pausch's last lecture, a truly great lecture to inspire us to be as much as we can.
- Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson, given at TED.
- Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video)
Prototyping Methods and Examples
- Chrome Experiments
- iPhone Copy and Paste - a mockup of what it might look like to Copy and Paste on iPhone, using the magnifying loupe and a second-finger tap.
Gadget design and hacks
- PCubee (Sid Fels and students) and this is where the LCD supplier is
- Using the Wiimote as a wireless multitouch input to television
- Siftables
Information Visualization Examples
- Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. This series by Chris Jordan looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something, e.g., fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use) . While not HCI, its an awesome info vis example.
- Time Maps shows multiple points of time from the same scene, in a single image, by Michael Terry.
- Collects some amazing visualizations. Beautiful.
- Nikon Size Comparision in the spirit of Scales of 10
- Visualization of flight traffic patterns
The Web
- web2.0 in 5 minutes - movie. Michael Wesch, Kansas State University.
- An anthropological introduction to YouTube presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008.
Light
- Video demonstrations on lightness illusions by Talusan and Chen
Obsolescense
- The Story of Stuff and The Story of Change with Annie Leonard, talks about how production moves from a cycle of extraction to production, distributiong, consumption and disposal.
Tabletops / Vertical displays
- Microsoft surface 2
- Stevie B Microsoft Research demo
- Microsoft Project Natal
- Movie showing future gaming
- demonstrates a concept for multi-touch and window management on a desktop machine
- Surface and Tangible Blocks
- Active Desk History by Bill Buxton
- Electrostatic sensing of hand positions
- Rectable roleplaying game
- iLab CBC Video
- MIT Digital Drawing Board
- Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 09:32)
- Microsoft Surface Computing
- Interacting with Large Displays using Tabletop Devices fro UBC, Tony Tang. Shows TeleporterPad and the LazySusan techniques of linking tabletop displays and large vertical displays.
- $2. Multitouch. A simple multitouch pad made from a plastic bag, some dyed water, and a camera
- MagicBoard by Tony Tang
- Johnny Lee's Wiimote Hacks
- Flux convertable multitouch table
Alternative Interfaces to the Desktop
- Anand Agarawala: BumpTop desktop. Anand was an undergrad at Calgary, and went on to develop some creative work for his MSc at U Toronto.
Satirical Videos
- Medieval Help Desk spoofs books as a new technology in the middle age. English subtitles. From the show "Øystein og jeg" on Norwegian Broadcasting, 2001. Øystein Backe (helper)& Rune Gokstad (desperate monk). Written by Knut Nærum
- Internet Help Desk comedy spoofing treatment of people by a help desk person.
- MS Paint comedy spoofing the poor functionality of MS Paint.
- Bad technology for an excercise machine - Advert
- French $ Saunders - Computer Troubles
- Gmail - Behind the Scends
- Animator vs. Animation Not really HCI, but its so cool I had to include it somewhere.
- The sequel
- Alien Abduction with an HCI twist (Pixar)
Text Entry
- Dasher information theoretic rapid text entry system. See http://www.dasher.org.uk/
Human Robot Interaction
- Virtual Visiting Robot, also father reads a book to his children through the robot
- Dexterious robot showing amazing grasping
- AIBO gets another shot at life , thanks to Wiimotes
Finding / Viewing Information
- Information R/evolution explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.
- Fisheye image viewer Actually a demo, not a video