Microsoft Surface: Better Than Pac Man?
I have to agree with doane paper, Microsoft’s new touchschreen interface, Surface, may well be the future of human computer interaction, but it has an “old school” design flaw…straining the neck to...
View ArticleNew Logitech Laptop Stands and a Cool New Contributor!
I’ll start with the new contributor since that’s me and I love talking about myself. Adria asked me to join the Ergonomenon team to help deepen some of the great posting that’s been going on, help...
View ArticleSkype Mouse: Does it Make Sense?
I commented in my last post that many of the highly lauded features of the iPhone don’t’ really make any practical sense. In this post, I’d like to explore that a bit more because it seems like a lot...
View Articleiphones, smart phones and generally dumb ideas
So, I’m still pretty excited about the iphone and I’d love to hear personal stories of use. That being said, I was speaking with a client of mine the other day when the iphone came up. My client was...
View ArticleWhy the iPhone just straight up stinks…(but will still sale butt loads)
Reading this review (Tom Yager @ InfoWorld) really drove me to a “final” conclusion on the iphone. (Please keep in mind that I’m really looking at this from a human-computer interactions (HCI)...
View ArticleErgonomics outside the office: Guitars
We had a couple of comments from an ergonomics blogger with a focus on guitars. I thought I’d link to his site as well as to an interesting project. The first site will be great to keep an eye on …...
View ArticleHigh Heels Have A Future After All (with Crocs)
Crocs, a Boulder based shoe company, began as a niche item for kayakers (they’re light and they float) and were soon adopted by gardeners, chefs and hospital workers. The first edition of the shoe,...
View ArticleDisabilities and Ergonomics, Engineering Our Way Through Barriers
Wednesday’s NYTimes editorial on Oscar Pistorius was a truly eye-opening experience for me [when I read it Wed; I've been thinking about it ever since]. I’d been completely ignorant of the situation...
View ArticleGetting around the city easier WITHOUT a car
I don’t know how many of you readers live in a city (but I suppose I could easily figure that out thanks to Google Analytics) but I stumbled upon an interesting innovation: Its called the MagicWheel....
View ArticleSteelcase Treadmill Workstation — Office of the Future?
I wrote in the past about the “walking while working” movement composed of a small but growing group of people abandoning their desks for a healthier alternative– a workstation jerry-rigged to a tread...
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