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June 6, 2010

‘Hyperlocal’: How Community Information is Shared in Rural Societies

Posted by : Kaushik

 
Last week I was in a village in the rural hinterlands of West Bengal in India on a field research. I observed that they use a certain interesting method to share the local community information. It is done in a way that uses 'Public Information Landmarks' to distribute and disseminate knowledge. Every village [...]


January 10, 2009

Picture it!

Posted by : Kaushik

The rich web apps are bringing in more & more interesting patterns in the interaction model. Visual interaction is really emerging as a powerful way people respond, manipulate and intermediate… Think about it…it is like a non-verbal communication, more visceral, more emotional and definitely more intuitive.

 The Symbaloo web application. It aims to create a visual [...]


December 26, 2008

Sharing Rich Web Pages

Posted by : Kaushik

Rich Apps are here. Page sites are gone. Internet is wearing a new look. Sites are looking more and more like applications…but if we cant share what we do, the richness won’t get us very far.


December 16, 2008

Loopt In…Tweet Out!!!

Posted by : Kaushik

 
In a very interesting twist, the recent wave of popularity of the ‘Twitter’ is somewhat on the wane. Part of the reason is that, much though it claimed to be a ‘Spot Yourself’ application, it never gave any geographical cue. If you looked at ‘Twitter’ App site, it just looks like a series of tweets [...]


April 8, 2008

Two Monologues Do not Make a Dialogue: Preview of Norman’s “Design of Future Things”

Posted by : Kaushik Ghosh

A quick preview of Don Norman’s next work "Design of Future Things", looks intriguing in the 1st chapter itself. He discusses the idiom of interaction between human and smart systems that are going to have a lot of work delegated to, in the years to come. His unique insights about human behavioral dispositions with [...]


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