Georg Cockburn

For a long time we had to handle interfaces that didn’t seem to be made for humans. Keyboards and other awkward input devices aren’t made for spontaneously interaction. Seemingly engineers had forgotten that we are, after all, living beings who want to touch and move things in a natural way.
Now slowly companies […]

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It took some time, but the videos from the “Innovation Forum Interaction Design“, which took place in Potsdam, Germany last year, online now. IA and usability gurus like Bill Moggridge from IDEO and Bruce Sterling give interesting insights into their work and thoughts on interaction design.
The aim of the two day conference “Innovation Forum Interaction […]

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I’ve really noticed the relevance of mobile social networks in the speeches at this year’s CHI in Florence, Italy.
I’ve always been on an upbeat note about mobile social networks, but here more than before, there have been some great papers on this topic, which all really show where all this can be heading. […]

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The CHI - Computer Human Interaction - Conference 2008 will be taking place in Florence, Italy from Saturday, 5th to Thursday, 10th of April.
During CHI 2008 Luca Chittaro will keep an updated blog in English and Italian where he will write about “news, interviews with internationally-known researchers, and the latest trends and discoveries in human-computer […]

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Create or Die Magazine recently came out with a special issue called ‘Video revolution online’. In it you can find some articles about current developments in online video. I contributed an article about Mercedes-Benz.tv. Read more about how we planed and developed that plattform in this PDF (sorry - currently only available in German).

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Just a few days ago I posted an article in this blog about Mobile Touchpoints. In it I stated that the online and offline world have mostly stayed separated up till now and that the iPhone is the first device that starts changing that. Today I just stumbled across an interesting article on ReadWriteWeb, in […]

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As the web is increasingly leaving home, it offers completely new chances to reach customers.
For a long time we have looked at the real world and the digital world as two completely different entities. That’s what we express when talking about phenomena as “second life” vs. “real life”. Up till now this might have been […]

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While many of you probably use them frequently, RSS-Feeds haven’t really yet hit the masses. That’s probably because people aren’t used to organizing they’re own content structure. They mainly want it delivered ready to consume. There are customizable start pages like Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle, etc. and they’re very handy if you’ve got the time to […]

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It’s been a lot of work, but finally we got there: Yesterday we got the new Mixed Tape Music Magazine on Mercedes-Benz.tv up and running! We at Scholz & Volkmer developed the IA and the implementation into Mercedes-Benz.tv, while Neuland + Herzer is in charge of the content. Enjoy!

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The see conference 2008 will be taking place on April, 19th 2008 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Hosted by Scholz & Volkmer the conference has again got some great speakers, who will discuss how to deal with the visualisation of data:
Our world is growing increasingly complex, dynamic and multi-dimensional. And so is our communication. The […]

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