Emerging Interactive Technologies, Emerging Interactions, and Emerging Integrated Form Factors

every so commonly i get possession of across a blog that has been around allowing for regarding a while, but is a unexplored discovery to me. if you are interested in interactive multimedia and emerging technology, and you haven’t heard of richard banks, you will probably be pleased with his vast array of interesting posts!after browsing circa richard bank’s blogs, i rest that he works benefit of microsoft research. like me, he maintains more than one blog, and he blogs everywhere nearly the same topics.here is a view into his age:rb.trends: tracking later technology experiencerb.work: technology, pattern and studyrb.log: family, photography, architecture etc.one of richard’s just out posts brought me back to my musings about interactive surfaces:via richard banks and gizmodo: a touch screen poker board from hard gamingif it is possible to program an application to handle the metrics that support poker, then it is possible to program a multi-user application for position or education, and enjoy this application integrated into any type display, according to exigency.the form factor aloft would be useful in spite of team meetings or collaborative toss planning, especially during group decision-making or approach planning activities that embrace data analysis or information visualization.could this concept be modified to able the form of a kidney table for use in education? think about it. we could combine the best features of appear computing with the best features of multi-user video games.

rationale? video-game applications can handle the metrics of multi-user interaction, which would be ideal for tracking student progress and interaction. take advantage of land interaction would sanction young children with an easy way to access the application- or all of the poop that will be available on the multi-touch web of the future, without learning sooner to type.(touch and formality interaction could help us move towards the implementation of the internet of things)could this concept be transformed for use by two people collaborating on an electronic drafting table?

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if you are a nui group member, think about this!note: i came up with the phrase, “multi-touch web of the future” as i was typing this post. i guess i didn’t dream up it – i looked it up and found andrew foote’s collection, “the multi-smattering web”i’m in.somewhat interdependent…….more for the tech-strange:interactive data visualization in bruised lifetime
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Tranquility disturbed

Inside Vernon Grove Cemetery, there are American flags stuck in the green grass next to veterans’ headstones, bouquets of daisies lovingly left and a toy fire truck parked where a firefighter was laid to rest.

Right near where loved ones come to pray for the dead, the sacred ground is ripped up by tire tracks.

The marks, Trustees Chairman William Cavazza III says, were left by trespassers who snuck in at night to do doughnuts and narrowly missed hitting old gravestones and newly planted maples.

“First of all, they don’t have any respect for this type of area – there’s no respect for the dead,” Cavazza said at the cemetery last week. “Would you want to come down and visit your grandparents’ graves and find it was struck by someone just having fun, playing around, spinning around?”

Cavazza says the grounds crew in recent months has also discovered whiskey bottles, used condoms and hypodermic needles scattered around the cemetery, as well as demolition debris that got dumped.

Looking to keep out those who would desecrate the cemetery when darkness falls, trustees are calling police more often and looking to install a 4-foot-high electronic gate that would prevent vehicles from coming in between dusk and dawn.

During that time, only walkers would be allowed in and out.

Last Monday, Town Meeting passed over a funding article for the gate, but Cavazza said trustees expect to be at special Town Meeting in the fall, asking voters for about $13,000 for the project.

The cemetery, established in 1859, has a beautification fund, but Cavazza said that shouldn’t be tapped for the gate.

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“It’s the town’s cemetery so we’re going to ask the townspeople to help us,” he said.

To keep the area safe in the meantime, Police Sgt. James Heron said officers have stepped up patrols at Vernon Grove, going by at least once a night on the lookout for loiterers and troublemakers.

“If they know we’re going to go down there and check, they’re not going to be there,” the sergeant said.

Getting a gate up is a top priority, but Cavazza said trustees are also looking to complete a few other projects: dredging Vernon Grove’s shallow and mucky pond; erecting street signs and a lit, wooden map at the entrance; surveying open land on the property for additional plots; and creating a special section he calls the “teddy bear area” for children to be buried.

On the 21 acres, there are tall spires and heart-shaped headstones. Some stones in the cemetery bear images of pets, some are made of strong granite, and some are old and fragile, made of limestone and slate.

A big purple Care Bear and stuffed elephant are propped against the headstone of Violet Anna and Iris Mary Carey, the two young sisters killed in a gas explosion at their Hopkinton home in July 2002.

On a sunny afternoon last week, the scent of lilacs drifted through the cemetery, where Canada geese honked, robins chirped, a doe peeked out from a wooded area and pink dogwood trees blossomed.

“It’s just a really pretty place,” said Cavazza, noting many people go there to take walks.

But trash and trouble is eating away at the tranquility, he noted.

“It just takes one or two people to foul things up,” he said.

Cavazza said a big concern is for the older grave markers, which crumble easily and are being threatened by car and truck tires.

Police have been called to the cemetery 32 times this year, mostly for property checks but several times for vandalism and illegal dumping.

A few weeks ago, Cavazza said, it was roof shingles found in heavy-duty bags. A couple weeks before that, it was beer cans and hypodermic needles.

“If I have to, I’ll show the pictures at Town Meeting,” he said. “This is the place where we’re all going at the end of our life and it should be treated with the utmost respect.”

Danielle Ameden can be reached at 508-634-7521 or dameden@cnc.com.

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My New Spout Column

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