SHiFT Conference

SHiFT 2010 - DIY

SHiFT is a happening, an international conference and unique event, gathering leaders and participants from all walks of life, to discuss and share Social and Human Ideas For Technology.The theme this year is

Facial Animation Fast and Easy by Verónica Orvalho

Facial animation is a serious bottleneck in any computer generated (CG) production. The face plays an important role in verbal and non-verbal communication. Everyday, we see many faces and interact with them in a variety of ways: talking, listening, looking, making expressions. Thus, facial animation is the key element to convey emotion to 3D characters. Reproducing the subtleties of a face through animation requires developing a sophisticated character rig. Speeding up the rigging process rem...

Designing the User Experience Curve by Andy Budd...

These days people expect more from a website than a handy set of tools and a pretty interface — they want an experience. From the moment somebody enters your site they’ll be judging you on everything from the way the site looks to the tone of your error messages. And they won’t just be judging you against other sites. They will be judging you on every customer experience they have ever had, from the rude man at the train station to the lovely hotel clerk that checked them in on holiday. So in ...

Designing the User Experience Curve by Andy Budd...

These days people expect more from a website than a handy set of tools and a pretty interface — they want an experience. From the moment somebody enters your site they’ll be judging you on everything from the way the site looks to the tone of your error messages. And they won’t just be judging you against other sites. They will be judging you on every customer experience they have ever had, from the rude man at the train station to the lovely hotel clerk that checked them in on holiday. So in ...

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Predicting the Past: A Design Vision for Microso...

A new inflection point in human-computer interaction is upon us. Along with other technologies, Microsoft Surface marks a departure from graphical user interface (GUI) into the world of Natural User Interface (NUI.) This talk focuses a lens on how one design team is thinking about designing for a new era in which intuitive interaction is the imperative. Using theoretical models drawn from a mix of history, science, philosophy, and even video game design, this presentation reveals some principl...

Transient Semantics and Microformats by Brian Suda

Semantics add more value into our daily lives, but even short-lived small steps toward more meaning are helpful. Microformats enable us to give these small building blocks of semantics into our HTML to give more meaning to our mark-up. By looking at our surroundings we can learn more about transient semantics as the flashes, beeps and alerts bring meaning and attention into our life. This talk is a recording of a session delivered by Brian Suda during the 2008 edition of the SHiFT - Social and...

Talent, Labs and Codebits by Celso Martinho

Open your company doors, your APIs, your knowledge, your work, your content, your sources, open everything. Be around talented people, go to universities, build labs, experiment, speak, fail, succeed. Promote and support opensource, turn your profit into opportunities for the youngest. And in the end, just throw the greatest tech/geek show in your country: Codebits. Open your company doors, your APIs, your knowledge, your work, your content, your sources, open everything. Be around talented pe...

Knowledge, networks and the social: fostering us...

I will focus my brief reflections on the emerging debate worldwide on patterns of innovation and the challenges of experiencing knowledge networks, which requires us to look at competence building and the need to better understand the process of user innovation worldwide. Overall, I will refer to the evolving phenomenon of democratizing innovation and will argue that value creation does require a serious commitment in the advanced training of more human resources and in supporting and promotin...

When nerds dream big: nuancing a wireless utopia...

This talk will delve into Tijmen Schep's thesis on the growing criticism of Mark Weiser's Ubiquitous Computing vision, a twenty year old ideal which still stands at the heart of our craving for location based services, smartphones and self-parking cars. This talk is a recording of a session delivered by Tijmen Schep during the 2008 edition of the SHiFT - Social and Human Ideas for Technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal - http://www.shift.pt. Read more about it: http://2008.shift.pt/talk/sho...