Pivot

I don't know if it is the actual Pivot technology and capabilities or the music in the movie but I'm optimistic and I really want to get my hands on this thing. I can see now the trajectory of online "searching as consumption" to "searching as therapy" because, in the worlds of Microsoft Live Labs Development Manager Karim Farouki, "by allowing someone to move the data around we are allowing them to build a connection with that data, to feel emotionally involved and to be immersed in the experience itself." Check out my full post to watch the Pivot promo.



Just a curiosity here... where are all the women? Did they not have a woman on the development team?
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Fall 09 / Cultural Probe / Findings

Upon explorations and musings on cultural probes getting at ritual I found that I am interested in where the mind wanders during those ritualistic experiences. What are the thoughts beneath the surface of ritual? And how can they be visualized? A "thought catcher" in a way. My classmate Tania, turned me towards a rather compelling photographic study (wish I would have thought of this on my own, and never told that this actually existed, although my photographs couldn't have been nearly as breathtaking). Explore The Thought Project by Simon Hoegsberby. [...]