this is ......open source hardware?.....

and so?

Interaction Design 1.1.1.

1.1.1. Interaction Design is the design of any interactive experience.

In today's world, Interaction Design is concerned with the creation
of meaningful experiences between us (humans) and objects. It is a
good way to explore the creation of beautiful—and maybe even
controversial—experiences between us and technology. Interaction
Design encourages design through an iterative process based on
prototypes of ever-increasing fidelity. This approach—also part of
some types of "conventional" design—can be extended to include
prototyping with technology; in particular, prototyping with
electronics.

When Things Start To Think - book online

When Things Start To Think

Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Physics and Media Group at MIT's Media Lab and co-director of the Things That Think consortium, offers a readable tour of what the world will be like tomorrow as computers become invisible, such as wearable computers, nanotech implants, and interactive digital books with electronic ink. 

http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0576.html

CALL FOR PAPERS ::: Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

A Special Issue on "Material Computing"

DEADLINE: Intention to submit (Abstract and Title): October 1, 2008

A fantastic class of new materials is blurring the boundaries between computation and physical form, and as a result bringing computer science into the realms of a host of other disciplines, among them architecture, biology, chemistry, fashion design, and mechanical engineering. Responsive and computationally controllable materials -- shape-changing polymers, e-textiles, and nano-scale electronics, just to name a few -- are positioned to provide the underpinnings of truly ubiquitous interactivity that extends invisibly across body, architectural and urban scales.

This special issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing will focus on the use of such materials as the physical and computational bridge between form and function, body and environment, structures and membranes. Rather than focusing on approaches that employ sensors and actuators as discrete add-on components, this issue will emphasize technologies that blur the gap between computation and materiality, and between traditionally distinct disciplines.

We hope to spark a conversation between researchers and practitioners from a variety of scientific, engineering, and design disciplines (e.g. ubiquitous computing, materials science, architecture, biology, fashion, and HCI) in order to shed light on the possibilities and limitations of new material technologies, and to illustrate how we will build, interact and live with computers well into the future. All submissions should be sent to the guest editors at materialcomputing@media.mit.edu. Authors must submit abstracts and titles to the guest editors by October 1, 2008, and full papers by November 14, 2008.

http://ambient.media.mit.edu/materialcomputing/index.html

Technologies for Creative Learning (course references) MIT LLK

Technologies for Creative Learning

from http://mas714.media.mit.edu/node/4

Constructionism

Required readings

Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. Basic Books. (Foreword, Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 8)

Resnick, M. (2007). All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & Cognition, Washington, DC.

Optional readings

Papert, S. (2000). What's the big idea: Towards a pedagogy of idea power. IBM Systems Journal, vol. 39, no. 3-4.

Diversity and Pluralism

Required readings

Turkle, S., & Papert, S. (1990). Epistemological Pluralism. Signs, vol. 16, no. 1

Turkle, S. (2008). Falling for Science (Introduction). MIT Press.

Optional readings

Gardner, H. (1998). A Multiplicity of Intelligences. Scientific American.

Social Learning

Required readings

Brown, J.S., and Adler, R. (2008). Minds on Fire. Educause Review.

Monroy-Hernández, A. and Resnick, M. (2008). Empowering kids to create and share programmable media, Interactions, March-April 2008.

Optional readings

Fischer, G. (2004). Social Creativity: Turning Barriers into Opportunities for Collaborative Design. Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference

New Media Literacy

Required readings

Jenkins, H. et al. (2006). Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. MacArthur Foundation.

Optional readings

diSessa, A. (2000). Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy (Chapter 1). MIT Press.

Resnick, M. (2001). Closing the Fluency Gap. Communications of the ACM, vol. 44, no. 3.

Kay, A. (1991). Computers, Networks, and Education. Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 138-148.

Programming for Everyone

Required readings

Kelleher, C. and Pausch, R. (2007). Using Storytelling to Motivate Programming. Communications of the ACM, vol. 50 no. 7, pp. 58-64.

Perlin, K., Flanagan, M., and Hollingshead, A. (2005). The Rapunsel Project. In G. Subsol (Ed.), Virtual Storytelling, pp. 251-259. Springer Berlin.

Optional readings

Kelleher,C. and Pausch, R. (2005). Lowering the barriers to programming: A taxonomy of programming environments and languages for novice programmers. ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 37 no. 2, pp. 83-137.

Tangible Learning

Required readings

Eisenberg, M. (2003). Mindstuff: Educational Technology Beyond the Computer. Convergence.

Resnick, M. (2006). Computer as Paintbrush: Technology, Play, and the Creative Society. Play = Learning: How play motivates and enhances children's cognitive and social-emotional growth. Oxford University Press.

Optional readings

Resnick, M., Martin, F., Berg, R., Borovoy, R., Colella, V., Kramer, K., and Silverman, B. (1998). Digital Manipulatives: New Toys to Think With. Proceedings of the CHI '98 conference, pp. 281-287.

Games and Learning

Required readings

Gee, J. P. (2003). What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Chapter 1, Chapter 2).

Zimmerman, E. (2008). Gaming Literacy: Game Design as a Model for Literacy in the 21st Century.

Optional readings

Fortugno, N., & Zimmerman, E. (2005). Learning to Play to Learn: Lessons in Educational Game Design.

Salen, K. (2007). Gaming Literacies: A Game Design Study in Action. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 301-322.

Kafai, Y. B. (2006). Playing and making games for learning: Instructionist and constructionist perspectives for game studies. Games and Culture, 1(1), 36-40.

1-to-1 Learning

Required readings

Cavallo, D. (2008). Learning Vision. OLPC wiki.

Kozma, R. (2007). One Laptop Per Child and Education Reform. OLPC News.

Optional readings

Kozma, R. (2007). OLPC and Policy Recommendations. OLPC News.

George Lucas Educational Foundation (2006). The Maine Idea: A Computer for Every Lap.

Supporting the Learning Process

Required readings

Brown, J.S., Collins, A., and Duguid, P. (1989). Situated cognition and the culture of learning. Educational Researcher, vol. 18, no. 1.

Optional readings

Duckworth, E. (1987). The Having of Wonderful Ideas (Chapter 1). Teachers College Press.

Dewey, J. (1938). Experience and Education.

Activity

Create some support materials to help someone learn Scratch. You can use any media that you want (text, graphics, video, Scratch itself, etc.).

No Friday speaker 

Broadening Participation

Required readings

Rusk, N., Resnick, M., and Cooke, S. (in press). Origins and Guiding Principles of the Computer Clubhouse. In Kafai, Y., Peppler, K., & Chapman, R. (eds.), The Computer Clubhouse: Constructionism and Creativity in Youth Communities. Teachers College Press.

Optional readings

Narayanan, G. (2007). A Dangerous But Powerful Idea: Counter Acceleration and Speed with Slowness and Wholeness.

Kafai, Y., Peppler, K., & Chin, G. (2007). High Tech Programmers in Low Income Communities: Creating a Computer Culture in a Community Technology Center. In C. Steinfeld, B. Pentland, M. Ackermann, & N. Contractor (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Communities and Technology (pp. 545-562). Springer.

On Interaction Design

Yaniv Steiner (ex IDII ) http://www.nastypixel.com

On Interaction Design:

" Maybe we should talk about this entity Interaction Designer, or Interaction Design in general......I don't believe its a person, I don't believe its an occupation,
I believe its an entity. It's an entity made out of designers, technologists, cognitive scientist, and artists. And the idea is about the communication between all of those elements, a unification of language and methods in order to achieve one goal which is the product: the product could be an art piece, it could be a service, it could be a software.

from talk at World Usability Day: "How prototypes can promote usability"
http://www.nastypixel.com/prototype/workshops/usability-day-milano

On 'the internet of things'

http://future.iftf.org/2005/09/an_internet_of_.html

"...........I've been a big fan of Kevin Ashton's notion of "an Internet of Things;" I think it's one of those happy phrases that is compact but deeply meaningful. There aren't many moments when techno-punditry clarifies instead of muddling our understand, much less achieve a kind of poetic elegance; but for me, the Internet of Things does it."