Tag Archives: interactive

MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch | Co.Design

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We live in an age of touch-screen interfaces, but what will the UIs of the future look like? Will they continue to be made up of ghostly pixels, or will they be made of atoms that you can reach out and touch?

At the MIT Media Lab, the Tangible Media Group believes the future of computing is tactile. Unveiled today, the inFORM is MIT’s new scrying pool for imagining the interfaces of tomorrow. Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that’s only the beginning.

Read more: MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch | Co.Design | business + design.

General Assembly Launches Dash, A Tool For Coding Newbies | TechCrunch

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As General Assembly moves away from co-working and focuses more heavily on educating entrepreneurs and startups, the company is releasing a brand new tool to the public. It’s called Dash, and it’s an interactive online program that helps teach people how to code through a series of interactive storyline-based tutorials.

via General Assembly Launches Dash, A Tool For Coding Newbies | TechCrunch.

You may also like: Dash: Learning To Code by Building Websites | Information Space

New iOS/Android App from Layar and Pearson Offers Augmented Reality for Print Books | LJ INFOdocket

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Read the story here: New iOS/Android App from Layar and Pearson Offers Augmented Reality for Print Books | LJ INFOdocket.

Google Launches Web Designer, A Visual Tool For Building Interactive HTML5 Sites And Ads | TechCrunch

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Google today announced the launch of Web Designer, a new tool for building interactive HTML5 sites and ads. The company first hinted at this launch in June, but had been quiet about it ever since. Web Designer, which Google calls a “professional-quality design tool,” is now officially in public beta and available for download for Mac and Windows.

Read: Google Launches Web Designer, A Visual Tool For Building Interactive HTML5 Sites And Ads | TechCrunch.

You Can Now Explore the Large Hadron Collider on Street View | Gizmodo

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Google Street View is a great way to explore parts of the world you’ve never visited. And thanks to Google’s European team, it’s now one of the easiest ways to explore a facility you’re not exactly allowed to just stroll through whenever you want. Google’s panoramic cameras were given access to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, letting anyone poke around the gigantic machinery and the facility’s endless network of tunnels.

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Read: You Can Now Explore the Large Hadron Collider on Street View | Gizmodo.

‘Social Fiction’ Brings Characters to Life via Facebook and Twitter | Mashable

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A former Nickelodeon Animation storyboard artist and a Facebook employee have teamed up to create a new form of entertainment: social fiction.

Illustrator Steve Lowtwait and writer Michael Smith are telling a fictional story through social media that’s centered around a protagonist called “Hawk Funn.” They have set up real social profiles on Facebook and Twitter for fictional characters in the story, and they post about the characters’ lives just like real people would. If you follow Hawk on Facebook and on Twitter, you can track the plot and learn about his life as a suburban dad in Colorado and his fear of the indoors.

Hawk Funn

via ‘Social Fiction’ Brings Characters to Life via Facebook and Twitter | Mashable.

You Can Now Explore the Galapagos Islands With Google Street View | Gizmodo

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The Galapagos is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, and it was key in Charles Darwin’s findings in forming the the scientific argument of evolution. You may never get to travel to the volcanic archipelago in person, but now thanks to Google, you can explore it through 360-degree imagery on Street View.

The full story: You Can Now Explore the Galapagos Islands With Google Street View | Gizmodo.

You may also like: Darwin for a Day lets you play scientist, explore the Galapagos in Street View | Engadget

Student Leadership: Time to get on Board! | Hack Library School

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Here’s an MLIS student’s take on getting involved in leadership activities while completing a graduate program.

Student Leadership: Time to get on Board! | Hack Library School.

Do-It-Yourself GIS: 20 Free Tools & Data Sources for Creating Data Maps | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org

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The world of mapping and presenting data sets through geographical representations is no longer relegated to GIS librarians and highly trained technologists. New free and open source applications now make it possible to create complex and robust data visualizations in the form of maps that display statistics and poll results. Here’s a guide to 20 free applications and data sources.

via Do-It-Yourself GIS: 20 Free Tools & Data Sources for Creating Data Maps | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org.

There are 6 data visualization tools listed and 14 sources for GIS mapping data.

Also see my list of Interactive Mapping Resources on The Modern MLIS. I have categorized resources as either digital libraries, visualization tools or stargazing maps. There is only a little overlap with Ellyssa’s list.

You may also like:  Ten Places to Find and Create Data Visualizations | FreeTech4Teachers

Sexism and abuse isn’t only on Twitter: one woman’s gaming experience | theguardian.com

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A commenter describes the reactions of male players she beat in an MMORPG – and the change when she played as a ‘man’.

Quotable: “…[E]ven though these personal threats were against the game rules, the game’s staff assumed no responsibility for enforcing the rules, or else blamed me for ‘provoking’ the male players. (One game operator did tell me that I ‘provoked’ the threats by ‘playing too well’ and suggested I deliberately lose more often so as not to bruise male egos. This game operator was, by the way, female.)”

via Sexism and abuse isn’t only on Twitter: one woman’s gaming experience | Technology | theguardian.com.