BarCamp Hyderabad

barCamp Finished with the marathon of presentations which went till 9:00 pm yesterday. It was nice to see old pals from pramati and progress making presentations. Cordys made their mark with their presentation on the UI. Impressive stuff....
You can find the event reports on the page http://barcamp.org/BarCampHyderabadPostMortem.

Barcamp Hyderabad & Web 2.0

I will be making a presentation on "User experience- parallels in tangible interfaces & Web 2.0" at BarCamp event at Hyderabad on Apr 08,2006. This is a (Un)Conference on Web 2.0 and Next Generation Internet Architectures (details:http://barcamp.org/BarCampHyderabad), where many presenters will be talking about the Web2.0 and how it is changing the web space.

My invitation to all who are in the Hyberabad to come and join the event at IIIT Campus. see you there.

Persona development

It is becoming very important to identify the target users in many of the organizations since the understanding of the users (and not the super users) have helped them to clearly define the exact goals of the product. Here are some of the reads for the persona development

Persona at SAP
http://www.sapdesignguild.org/index.asp?b=/philosophy/User_Experience/cooper.html&t=/philosophy/philosophy_topnav.asp

Steve Mulder's presentation "Bringing more science to persona creation" at the IA Summit
http://www.iasummit.org/2006/conferencedescrip.htm#14

Robert Reinmann’s excerpt from Dan Saffer’s book – http://www.designingforinteraction.com/reimann.html

IDEO – MIT Media Lab on wearable computers
http://www.ideo.com/mit/index.html

Cooper’s:
http://www.cooper.com/content/why_cooper/powerful_personas.asp

RFID

RFID is slowly becoming an integral part of the warehousing. There are some experimental works done in the field:

Timo arnall projects
www.nearfield.org

Chris Noessel paper
http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/c.noessel/RFID/RFID_research.pdf

"RFID Vision in the DOD Supply Chain" at http://www.almc.army.mil/ALOG/issues/MayJun05/rfid.html

RFID Resources
http://www.rfidjournal.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID
http://radiofrequencyidentification.org/
http://www.spychips.com/
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=17981&isYear=1999
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~eee05/panel/panel_rfid.html
http://www.rfidgazette.org/
http://www.rfidnews.org/