Hi everyone, its been a while since I posted to aDesignedPath. I have been rigorously blogging on BlendedInteractions.com for the past year or so. http://blendedinteractions.com Please feel free to check out my work as the Director of the Blended Interactions Studio at RIT. You will find all sorts of interaction design research relating to Mobile … Continue reading Interaction Design Research 9.2013 – 7.2014
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Blended Interactions Workshop
On Thursday, October 3rd from 1:30pm to 5pm, the Blended Interactions Studio in concert with the GCCIS IST department will be hosting the Blended Interactions Workshop. Researchers from Edinburgh Napier University's Centre for Interaction Design, Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design and RIT's MS Human Computer Interaction program will showcase their latest evaluated interaction design … Continue reading Blended Interactions Workshop
Introducing the Blended Interactions Studio at RIT
Blended Interactions is a user experience (UX) design studio at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY. We specialize in applied research and development for the design of innovative technologies that merge digital and physical spaces via mobile services. Our student researchers, designers and developers are funding by New York Council on the Arts, RIT and VisitRochester. web site: http://blendedinteractions.com … Continue reading Introducing the Blended Interactions Studio at RIT
Introducing the Mobile Tourism Project to Gov. Cuomo
On Friday, May 8th Governor Cuomo held New York's first New York State Tourism Summit: NYS Tourism Means Business in Albany, NY. The summit included the state's top tourism and political leaders to monopolize on opportunities to grow, support and build New York's economies via tourism. I had the pleasure of meeting Governor Cuomo and … Continue reading Introducing the Mobile Tourism Project to Gov. Cuomo
Presented at the Blended Interactions Workshop at CHI 2013, Paris, France
Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and Edinburgh Napier University collaborate to create "A Blended Space for Tourism at the Genesee Country Village & Museum". Brian O'Keefe from RIT presented at the Blend13 CHI 2013 Workshop in Paris, France. The workshop brought international researchers together to envision the impact of Blended Theory could have on the … Continue reading Presented at the Blended Interactions Workshop at CHI 2013, Paris, France
Researchers conduct augmented reality study at Genesee Country Village & Museum
A special thanks to our collaborators at Genesee Country Village & Museum. Last week our interaction designers and ethnographers had a special tour with the Director of Interpretation and Curation. Our personalized tours took our researchers to key places in the nineteenth century village for the best vantage points for augmented reality and highlighted key locations … Continue reading Researchers conduct augmented reality study at Genesee Country Village & Museum
Porsche Principle Innovations – Documentary on Innovation in Corporate Culture
Professor Michael Shamiyeh, Head of Design-Organization-Media (DOM) Research Laboratory to Discuss PORCHE Innovations When: 4.12.2013 - Time: 1:00 PM Where: Student Hall of Innovation – Rochester Institute of Technology Prof Shamiyeh is head of the DOM (Design -Organization – Media) Research Laboratory in Austria. http://www.domresearchlab.com He holds degrees from Harvard, AA London and TU Vienna. He is … Continue reading Porsche Principle Innovations – Documentary on Innovation in Corporate Culture
Patent for “Guidance for Image Capture at Different Locations”
U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York The co-inventors are Timothy L. Nichols, Spencerport, N.Y., Kenneth Alan Parulski, Rochester, N.Y., Thiagarajah Arujunan, Penfield, N.Y., Thomas Joseph Murray, Cohocton, N.Y., and Brian Joseph O'Keefe, Rochester, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for providing guidance … Continue reading Patent for “Guidance for Image Capture at Different Locations”
Faculty Recognition at RIT – Students Creating Mobile Experiences
Students Creating Mobile Experiences Since Fall of 2011, Brian O’Keefe, a visiting professor for the Golisano College of Computing & Information Sciences, has been teaching Mobile Experiences for Tourism. This is a unique, multidisciplinary course experience in which students across a number of graduate-level, academic programs work collaboratively to develop mobile technologies with a specific … Continue reading Faculty Recognition at RIT – Students Creating Mobile Experiences
Rochester Tech Startups Presentation: Wizard of Oz Prototyping
Wizard of Oz Prototyping - Evaluating user feedback from products that do not exist Presenter: Brian O'Keefe When: 16 January 2013 Where: Student Innovation Hall, RIT Time: 6:30-7:30 Rochester Tech Startups http://www.meetup.com/Rochester-Tech-Startups/ Abstract The Wizard of Oz (WoZ) prototyping technique is used in the Usability Engineering course in the MS Human Computer Interaction program at … Continue reading Rochester Tech Startups Presentation: Wizard of Oz Prototyping
