MIT's Technology Review (a HIGHLY recommend newsletter) has an interview with Rick Rashid, Director of Microsoft Research. Rashid gives some thoughtful answers to some rather confrontational questions regarding the state of innovation at Microsoft, and singles out interface adaptation as a key feature for improving usability. He also refers to Microsoft's SenseCam project, a wearable camera for capturing everyday life events, as a memory-aid or "black box". It has clear value to ethnographic research, although it's current design seems to be a bit too bulky and obtrusive.
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17 December 2006
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