George Paravantes | Interaction Design MA Grad Student
Okay as I’ve begun to dig deeper into understanding various user Interface solutions in vehicles today, it quite amazing to see how various car makers approach their UI work. This article I came across on CNET gave a nice overview of what works and what doesn’t in terms of usability and overall interface aesthetics. Automotive [...]
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The idea that go me motivated to explore this as a thesis topic started off with the self initiated project. I could see a future scenario of a vehicle purchases also accompanied by a tailored mobile application that would be updated through the manufacturer and would offer various services and car monitoring capabilities both in [...]
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I stumbled across a number of great presentations in relation to how the vehicle fits into our society today. Dean Kamen presented some great insights into using technology and changing people’s behaviour. He goes on to talk about how todays relationship with our car is broken and how we use it in our daily activities. [...]
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We have all encountered the flow of traffic in varying degrees and know how frustrating it can leave us from getting in the way of our destination. But how much do we understand about the flow off traffic and what causes it, you might be surprised by some of the interesting findings.
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I came across this relevant conference that encompasses various aspects of my degree work. There were numerous academic papers that caught my interests and helped me understand different facets and challenges of Interactive systems within the driving experiences.
There are a number of noteworthy papers that caught my eye one was from the UX team from [...]
A journey of a thousand miles began with a single step. Lao Tzu
So begins my final Degree Project and Thesis (deep breath) and my road to graduation. What I’ll be doing is keeping everyone informed and giving a behind the scene look to my thesis work, I hope to share an authentic view (both [...]
The mobile phone had moved to become the pinnacle piece of electronic we own today. When we leave the house in the morning we usually make the check “keys” ” Wallet” and “Mobile”, we dare not think of losing this new connectivity freedom we have access to today. The mobile [...]
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