The Top Ten Essential Interaction Design Books by Dan Saffer.

also Breathing Life into Buildings: Interaction Design for Physical Spaces this was interesting.
“time + space + emotion.”

from http://www.kickerstudio.com

Health InfoScape from MIT Senseable Cities and GE

Senseable teams up with GE to create Health Infoscape - uncovering the relationship between space, geography and health.

Olars by Lars M. Vedeler and Ola Vågsholm from the Tangible Interactions course at The Oslo School of Architecture & Design:

Olars is an electronic interactive toy inspired by Karl Sims' evolved virtual creatures. Having thousands of varieties in movement and behaviour by attaching different geometrical limbs, modifying the angle of these, twisting the body itself, and by adjusting the deflection of the motorised joints, results in both familiar and strange motion patterns.

Olars from Lars Marcus Vedeler on Vimeo.

historic Zeppelin poster.

loving that spotlight..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin

ecologies

My students in 222.326 are animating ecologies_trying to link my teaching and research , May be I was thinking about this when talking to Simon today about autonomus blimps and used an analogy of a fish tank to describe them..BigZepps are gropers, Ollies small zippy fish etc..

key texts

organising.
starting to sort out what I should be reading from what is 'off the trail' a bit at the moment.
firstly I'd like to organise some categories.

bearing in mind this.
Research Title Practice based investigation into children's experience of an interactive play environment within a pediatric healthcare context.
Aims
This project will explore the relationship between interactive architectural spaces and children's experience of their healthcare environment and its affect on their well being. This research will explore how people relate to each other and their spaces in a children's healthcare context.

so
KEY words...

Interaction
Experience
Affect
Play

now start establishing a matrix that identifies key texts and a further taxonomy

Interaction
Moggridge
Dourish

Experience
Massumi
Phenomenology- Merleau-Ponty

Affect

Play
Huinzinga
Saleen

bubbles project development

Interesting to follow the development of this project here