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Tangible Embedded Interactions

Saturday, October 18, 2008

From TEI-Conf website:
Computing is progressively moving beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts. One key area of innovation has been around tangible computing, which pushes the user interface beyond the digital into the physical world by means [...]

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Tinkering

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I could re-write with my own words, but the Adruino Booklet does a great job defining it.
Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don’t quite know how to do, guided by whim, imaginationand curiosity.
From Merriam-Webster
Main Entry: tinker
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): tin·kered; tin·ker·ing
Date: 1592
Intransitive verb:
to work in the manner of a tinker ; especially [...]

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