WilbertWelcome on my blog, it's my personal space about things I like, projects I do and thoughts I share. Feel free to comment, I enjoy reading your ideas and opinion.

You can also find me blogging at the electronic music blog eclectro.nl and journalism blog onlinejournalismblog.com.

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A cognitive analysis of tagging

Social Classification - Wilbert on September 29, 2005 at 8:59 am, 0 Comments

Hi, hypernarrative is a blog by Wilbert Baan about Art, Media and Technology with a focus on interactive storytelling. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed with Google or Netvibes. I'll post a few messages a week. Thanks for visiting!

A cognitive analysis of tagging

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Mapping time

On the Web - Wilbert on September 28, 2005 at 6:28 pm, 0 Comments

What is the web 2.0? Catching the web in a map has started. See Visualizing Web 2.0 and last weeks Web2MemeMap on Flickr by Tim O’Reilly.

http://web2.wsj2.com/, http://www.flickr.com/

Geominder

Mobile culture - Wilbert on September 28, 2005 at 12:30 am, 0 Comments

Geominder allows you to create location-based reminders that stay attached to physical locations.

http://ludimate.com/

GameGame 1.0 is out

On the Web - Wilbert on September 28, 2005 at 12:07 am, 0 Comments

The Game about creating a Game

http://gamegame.blogs.com/

Just curio.us

On the Web - Wilbert on September 27, 2005 at 9:28 pm, 0 Comments

Justcurio.us strangers helping strangers.

http://justcurio.us/

Personality vs. Usability

Usability - Wilbert on September 27, 2005 at 8:50 pm, Comments Off

In an interview with the Volkskrant (26-09-05) the four females of the Swedish designerscollective Front brought up a solution in the never ending search for usability nirvana. The solution is quite simple and perfectly balancing on the edge between aesthetics and functionality. In the interview is suggested that creating a product that needs an explanation to be operated is giving this product a personality and thus is creating a bound between the user and the product. An example is the cd-player. A cd-player is (to most of us) an non-personal object. Front has made a cd-player in a glass vase. “No one knows how a cd-player like this works, if you show this a person and product will bind more easily”.

Below is a figure giving an indication to position a few products between usability / personality (emotional)

pers_vs_usab

more about Front: http://www.idonline.com/features/feature.asp?id=1329

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