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Moons of Sallys

Posted on March 4, 2013 by dustinfreeman

Click the image to play Moons of Sallys, inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s The Cyberiad. (More of a toy than a game really – you can just fly rockets around). I’ve nearly finished reading Stanislaw Lems’ The Cyberiad for a second … Continue reading →

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Games of Life

Posted on January 3, 2013 by dustinfreeman

I got my first smartphone, a Nexus S, back in early 2010 when I was living in Cambridge, UK. Impressed by the novelty of the beers there, I started snapping photos of taps and bottles: When I uploaded these to … Continue reading →

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Manually Clustering 275 Images For Qualitative Analysis

Posted on November 25, 2012 by dustinfreeman

Grounded Theory is a technique for developing a theory about some empirical data you collected. This is in opposition to having some hypotheses in advance, which you will either verify or not. However, if you’re collecting data in an entirely … Continue reading →

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User Groups and Their Needs

Posted on September 24, 2012 by dustinfreeman

For the course I’m TAing this semester, CSC318: The Design of Interactive Computational Media, the main group project is to develop a contacts/address book application. Part of the design process we get the students to go about is to think … Continue reading →

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Kinect Body Paint – Kinect Workshop @ Pervasive 2012

Posted on June 21, 2012 by dustinfreeman

Look at what I and my team made in a couple hours at the Kinect Workshop (run by David Kim): There are “buckets” of paint on either side of the space. One can grab paint and draw it all over … Continue reading →

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Test Strip Hero

Posted on June 30, 2011 by dustinfreeman

You know when a compulsively cool idea occurs to you, and you can’t stop yourself from doing it? I’m thinking of playing other parts of the world, too.

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Nuit Blanche 2010: The Wall

Posted on October 1, 2010 by dustinfreeman

I have a project in Toronto Nuit Blanche 2010 this Saturday! Here’s the blurb: The Wall Dustin Freeman Rorik Henrikson A wall of coloured blocks that move randomly when there is empty space. There is one rule: 1) When a … Continue reading →

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This is What A Day of Gesture Design Looks Like

Posted on June 4, 2010 by dustinfreeman

After spending a day designing a gesture detection algorithm, I took a look down at my paper and noticed that it looked almost art-like, if you didn’t know the origin. I decided to humbly share them with you for your … Continue reading →

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Above The Surface Interaction

Posted on April 6, 2010 by dustinfreeman

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison This past year, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to work on several projects that did not go anywhere. I started getting very discouraged when it … Continue reading →

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Surface Monster Nom Nom Nom

Posted on February 4, 2010 by dustinfreeman

Someone on the Microsoft Surface team was nice enough to send me a project they were working on. Enjoy! This was a whimsical project that received some notice at CHI 2009 as a novel way to extend the interface space … Continue reading →

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