Innovation Notes

You have to be willing to be misunderstood when you innovate," said PhoCusWright CEO Philip Wolf in his Travel Innovation Summit opening remarks. "By definition, innovators have compelled themselves to ignore problems and failures in the quest to accomplish something important... " http://www.ukwire.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=20081216003200H7738

Intuitive Musical Instrument

Collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface: Take a look at the video demo of Reactable.

http://www.reactable.com/

Artist Bjork made use of this very cool interactive technology at Coachella 2007.

Human-computer interaction research links

HCI Design at Indiana University:
http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/hcid/research/

Stanford HCI Group:
http://hci.stanford.edu/

CMU HCII:
http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/Research/projects.html

Centre for HCI Design:
http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/research/index.html

HCI at IBM:
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.hci.html

HCI at Cornell:
http://www.hci.cornell.edu/projects/projects.htm

HCI at Tufts:
http://hci.cs.tufts.edu/research.html

HCI at Microsoft:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/detail.aspx?id=2

Floating homes video report

From Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=65198