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Using iPhone as controller for iPad games


May 14th, 2010  |  Stella Wong  |  Categories: HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Mobile, Technology  |  Tags: , ,  | 

Padracer is a racing game for the iPad where you use your iPhone as the steering wheel.
Look forward to more multi-user iPad applications!

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Xfinity’s Remote app


May 13th, 2010  |  Stella Wong  |  Categories: Social, Technology  |  Tags: , , , , ,  | 

Comcast’s new ‘Xfinity Remote’ app, includes an ‘invite friends’ feature so you can watch live TV with others.

More from Engadget here

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Touchscreen Makes Interaction Intuitive Enough for Cats


April 20th, 2010  |  Sosia Bert  |  Categories: HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Interactive  |  Tags: , ,  | 

Watch the cat play an electronic piano and play with a squiggly worm-like object on the iPad.

You certainly wouldn’t see a cat be able to make the connection between moving a computer mouse and a related action on screen, but when screen and touch are integrated, it’s a world of digital intuitive enough for animals.


Rethinking an iPhone App for the iPad


April 5th, 2010  |  Friends  |  Categories: HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration  |  Tags: , , , , , ,  | 

Translating a web site experience into an iPhone app requires a complete rethinking of the architecture and redesigning of user interfaces so they work within a tiny screen and mobile context.   Introduce the iPad device into the mix with its larger size and yet to be defined usage patterns and you suddenly realize that you don’t need to translate what you’ve done on the iPhone app — you need to start the process all over again.

Kayak wrote about the challenges of taking their existing iPhone app and redesigning it for the iPad.


Easy iPad, iPhone Prototyping and Wireframing


April 1st, 2010  |  Sosia Bert  |  Categories: HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile  |  Tags: , , , , ,  | 

iMockups – could help for designing apps and webpages meant to be viewed on the iPhone or iPad in the future…


VIV iPad Magazine demo


March 18th, 2010  |  Stella Wong  |  Categories: HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Mobile, Technology, Video  |  Tags: , , ,  | 
VIV iPad Magazine demo & making of


Penguin’s vision of digital books


March 4th, 2010  |  Stella Wong  |  Categories: Augmented Reality, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Online, Social, Technology  |  Tags: , , , ,  | 
A preview of what digital books for the iPad from Penguin Books will be like.
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Wired on the iPad


February 16th, 2010  |  Stella Wong  |  Categories: Inspiration  |  Tags: , , , , , ,  | 

Here’s a demo of WIRED magazine running as an Air App on the iPad. You can read more about it on Adobe’s blog here.

The concept enables — in digital form — the immersive content experience magazines are known for, and allows new interactive features to stimulate reader engagement, including:

  • content designed specifically for the touch screen experience
  • easy navigation methods, including an innovative zoomed-out “Browse Mode”
  • the ability to browse image slideshows
  • embedded 360 degree object viewers
  • support for video and audio content
  • the ability to rotate content using device accelerometer functionality


Start designing for the iPad with this PSD


February 1st, 2010  |  Stella Wong  |  Categories: Interactive, Online  |  Tags: , , ,  | 

For those of you who want to start designing for the iPad, here is a fully editable and scalable PSD file constructed using vectors by Teehan + Lax you can download to use.

The workable screen design is formatted to 768×1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK. Cheers T+L!

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Digital board games for the iPad


February 1st, 2010  |  Stella Wong  |  Categories: Gaming, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Social  |  Tags: , , , , , ,  | 

Here’s an interesting idea – digital board games on the iPad! Yes please :)

‘The multi-touch display is perfect for moving pieces around a board and because the iPad is a computer it can store thousands of games and add a variety of interactive features. In addition to animated Monopoly playing pieces, for example, you could also use the iPad’s Wi-Fi or 3G to play games with friends and family across the world. There’s even scope to create an iPad board game that works with iPhones.

Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.’

From Recombu

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