October 2011
Meet the speakers: Lindsey Green
Lindsey Green is a partner at Frankly, Green + Webb, working with cultural and historic organisations, helping them to use mobile’s unique capacity to deepen engagement through learning and play. She will be delivering a session at MEX as part…
DriveGain powers Dutch initiative to reduce CO2
The most recent MEX in May 2011 saw an insightful presentation from Simon East, CEO of DriveGain, on designing mobile experiences for sustainable living. I was interested to see DriveGain is now working with Fuelless, a Dutch government-backed in…
Android Beam – an inelegant interaction?
The video above (from an article by This Is My Next) shows Android’s new Beam feature. It uses NFC to transfer information between two devices, allowing users to exchange maps, web pages, contacts and more.
This is a much hyped use case fo…
Touch, painting and depth
SOAK from everyware.kr on Vimeo.
MEX alumnus Dominic Sebastian shared this intriguing video from Everywear in Korea. The designers used a Kinect 3D camera to sense how the surface of a spandex sheet changed when touched by the user. A project…
MEX Notes: Microsoft makes every surface a touch screen
- Source article: Microsoft makes every surface a touch screen
- MEX note: Hrvoje Benko and Scott Saponas at Microsoft Research have created a prototype display which uses a pico projector and motion sensing technology to project a touch screen on…
MEX Scholarships – apply by 25th October
Deadline for applications is Tuesday, 25th October.
MEX is where 100 of the industry’s deepest thinkers gather to define the cutting edge of mobile user experience in 7 curated Pathways. The 10th international MEX is in London on 30th Nove…
Who is queuing for iPhone 4S and why?
The quick thinking chaps at Dynamo PR were out on the streets of London today doing some instant user research with those queuing for an iPhone 4S.
It transpires the most popular model is the 16 Gb white version, most are buying it for the impr…
MEX Notes: Gestures appropriate to context
- Source article: Gestures appropriate to context
- MEX note: This article from Engadget has a very interesting video at the bottom of the page. Take a look at the touch gestures the demonstrator is using to control the navigation application on …