What we’ll be doing the next few weeks. — The coming week we will finally release Adify publicly. For those who want a sneak peak, adify.be is already online. Due to some technical difficulties (which we will explain in a follow up blogpost) the public release was pushed back a couple of weeks. …

I’ve never got around setting up my thermostat to fit my schedule. Partially because setting it up is not something that can be done easily without a manual. But also because my schedule isn’t as fixed as my thermostat would want it to be. …

But general interaction technologies lagging behind? — The Verge The most extreme form of human computer interaction is probably a Virtual Reality system. With the recent acquisition of the Oculus Rift (VR headset) by Facebook the topic is hotter than ever before. But it is not about the ethical concerns related to the take-over. My eye fell…

and evaluating session 3. — @StefanPante As you know from this blogpost we are going to make a sort of craigslist for students named: Adify. Contrary to what most developers often do, we started designing focussing on the UI (which makes sense in an UI course). We had to use paper prototypes: the idea is…

Extra motivation to accept @ErikDuval’s application. — The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/25/5445258/this-is-googles-project-tango) First class User Interfaces our professor suggested that it might be a cool idea to apply for Google’s Project Tango. He explained some more about it and told us that we had to remind him to apply if we would like the idea. Those reminders were abundant. …

A closer look at the usability of the popular rss reader — The first assignment for #chikul14 was to evaluate the usability of the recently booming rss reader Feedly. We choose to evaluate the web application at feedly.com but the mobile application(s) were also a possibility. We had a to take a quick look in the first session and discuss our findings…