Ricardo Sato

Research into how Web browsers apply CSS properties/values onto form elements.
Browsers: Internet Explorer 5.5 – Internet Explorer 6 – Internet Explorer 7 – Internet Explorer 8b2 – Firefox 1.5 – Firefox 2 – Firefox 3 – Opera 8.5 – Opera 9 – Chrome1 – Netscape Navigator 7.2
Operating System: Mac OS – Windows OS
CSS Properties: background-color – background-image – border: 0 – border-style – border-width – color – font-family – font-size – font-weight – height – letter-spacing – line-height – margin – padding – text-align – text-decoration – word-spacing
Form Elements: Input-Radio Buttons- Input-File Upload – Textarea – Input-Text – Input-Checkboxes – Select-Multiple Items – Select-Single Item – Submit Button

How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? The slides from Nicole's presentation at Web Directions North in Denver will show you how to use Object Oriented CSS to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. Adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful, standards-compliant, fast websites.

Dez escolas primárias em Osaka, no Japão, concordaram em utilizar o portátil DS, da Nintendo, como ferramenta de educação dentro de suas salas de aula.

Eduardo Morgado, professor da Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), é um dos pesquisadores que investigam o potencial do m-learning no Brasil. Ao lado de outros professores e com patrocínio da Microsoft, ele desenvolve um projeto no campus da universidade na cidade de Bauru, com alunos dos cursos de sistemas de informação, licenciatura em matemática e pedagogia. "O objetivo é desenvolver aulas diferenciadas, por meio dos dispositivos móveis, em que os alunos não precisam estar necessariamente presentes para acompanhar o conteúdo que será desenvolvido pelo professor", explica.

A biologia é um dos campos que já abraçou a simulação participativa, uma das modalidades de m-learning. Exemplo disso é a atividade ilustrada a seguir, um estudo do contágio de doenças por seres humanos. Por meio do celular, cada aluno desempenha um papel – vírus, anticorpos ou seres humanos vulneráveis ao contágio – e tem funções a cumprir na simulação projetada em sala de aula. A interação se dá por meio de um programa usado em classe.

Durante uma daquelas cansativas aulas sobre química orgânica, o celular dispara um alerta sonoro muito conhecido entre os jovens. Chegou mensagem de texto. O professor olha aborrecido para o dono do aparelho e pede que ele o desligue imediatamente. O estudante ainda tenta ler as letras que aparecem na pequena tela, mas é novamente censurado pelo professor: não há nada que incomode mais o mestre do que celular em sala de aula.

Outras pesquisas já haviam mostrado que os computadores têm contribuído pouco (ou nada) para a excelência nas escolas brasileiras. Até esse momento, no entanto, nenhuma delas havia traçado um retrato tão negativo. Analisa a especialista Fabiana de Felício, autora do estudo: "Sem a supervisão dos professores, as crianças perdem tempo em frente ao computador com atividades sem nenhuma relevância para o ensino". Leia-se: jogos e bate-papos virtuais.

Sixth Sense is a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cellphone—which acts as the computer and your connection to the Cloud, all the information stored on the web. Sixth Sense can also obey hand gestures, like in the infamous Minority Report.
However, instead of requiring you to be in front of a big screen like Tom Cruise, Sixth Sense can do its magic—and a lot more—everywhere, even while you are jumping hysteric over Oprah's sofa.

The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent, nonprofit research group with over 40 years of forecasting experience. The core of our work is identifying emerging trends and discontinuities that will transform global society and the global marketplace. We provide insights into business strategy, design process, innovation, and social dilemmas. Our research generates the foresight needed to create insights that lead to action. Our research spans a broad territory of deeply transformative trends, from health and health care to technology, the workplace, and human identity. The Institute for the Future is located in Palo Alto, CA.

Maria Elizabeth Bianconcini de Almeida, doutora em Educação e coordenadora do programa de Gestão Escolar e Tecnologias, desenvolvido pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) de São Paulo, afirma que as escolas não exploram todo o potencial que a tecnologia oferece. “É nesse contexto que surge a importância da formação não só para o professor mas também para os funcionários, para que a tecnologia não seja utilizada só em sala de aula, mas faça parte do coletivo."

WaSP InterAct is a living, open curriculum based upon web standards and best practices, designed to teach students the skills of the web professional. Adapt and reuse our resources. Contribute your own content and ideas.

Mitsubishi Electric Corp prototyped a capacitive touch panel that can detect the distance between a finger and the panel and demonstrated it at Interaction 2009, which took place from March 5 to 6, 2009, in Tokyo.
Mitsubishi Electric calls the touch panel " 3D touch panel" because it can determine not only the x- and y- (plane) coordinates of a finger but also its z- (normal direction) coordinate. The prototype has a 5.7-inch screen with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels (VGA).

Ubiquitous Interaction (Uix) couples in-depth studies of human-computer interaction with design in the area of novel interfaces (mobile, ubiquitous, multimodal, mixed reality). The goal is to contribute to technology development efforts by deepening understanding of human perpectives.

'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

A Graphical User Interface (GUI for short) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a user friendly way.
Over the years a range of GUI’s have been developed for different operating systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windowsamiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and more.
We’ll be taking a look at the evolution of the interface designs of the major operating systems since the 80’s.
I should mention that this article showcases only the significant advances in GUI design (not operating system advances) and also not all of the graphical user interfaces and operating systems existing today.

Who doesn’t like JQuery? This fast and easy to use Javascript framework became very popular in 2008. In the following article, I have compiled a list of 8 absolutely useful JQuery hacks, tips and tricks.

In this paper they speak about the role of play in learning and the freedom it entails:
"game players regularly exhibit persistence, risk-taking, attention to detail and problem solving skills, all behaviors that ideally would be regularly demonstrated in school."

And they touch on how Augmented reality games could contribute to the goal:
"Augmented Reality games that embed students in realistic real world scenarios"

The Education Arcade explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play. TEA's research and development projects focus both on the learning that naturally occurs in popular commercial games, and on the design of games that more vigorously address the educational needs of players.

Intuition, or tacit knowledge, is difficult to measure, so it is often denigrated. A new dissertation in education research from Linköping University in Sweden shows that there is a neurobiological explanation for how experience-based knowledge is created.

Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data. The system is still in early development, but we invite you to explore our current data and suggest research ideas. This is an open-source project, and we will be releasing all of the code soon.

We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph – we call our piece of it Calais.
Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application

the next-generation music tool/communication device for the musically creative and the aspiring musician as well.

Taking inspiration from the works of Dieter Rams, designer Anton brings us this unique radio for the kitchen. The design takes into account wet-fingers, food smudges and greasy gloves. Going for a minimalist approach, the DAB Digital Radio features decent enough goodies to entice you. Stuff like rubberized weighted base, splash-resistant design, enclosed speakers and battery operation make it more durable given the environment it is intended for.

Modular computing isn’t anything new. Designers have been toying with the idea for years but the Stream concept is unique in packaging the whole experience in a form more conducive to zen relaxation creating a stronger relationship with the user. The Stream concept consists of Experience Modules, the Core Component, Component Modules, a Display, Charging Cradle, and Charging Base.

Expanding Horizons is a quarterly publication aimed at ICT decision-makers in the private and public sectors.
It explores the socio-economic benefits that mobile technology offers as well as best practices from around the world in order to encourage affordable mobile communications and bring Internet to the next billion consumers. It also shows how to create a favorable environment for market growth.

Ubiquitous computing is coming. It is coming because there are too many too powerful institutions vested in its coming; it is coming because it is a “technically sweet” challenge; it is coming because it represents the eventual convergence of devices, tools and services that became inevitable the moment they each began to be expressed in ones and zeroes.

The Guardian published a special section on the role of mobile phones in emerging markets:

The Technology for Emerging Markets Group seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people who are increasingly able to afford computing technologies and services.

Lift is a series of events built around a community of doers and thinkers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social consequences of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meeting the people who drive them.

As something of an unbook avant la lettre. It’s why we’ve [Nurri Kim and Adam Greenfield] always insisted on keeping you in the loop as to the book’s fitful progress, it’s why I take every opportunity to test its ideas here, it’s why I make explicit the fact that your response to those ideas is crucial to their evolution and expression. And it’s why, even though the process is inevitably going to result in a static, physical document as one of its manifestations – and hopefully a very nice one indeed – we’ve committed to offering a free and freely-downloadable Creative Commons-licensed PDF of every numbered version of The City, from zero onward.
You buy the book if you want the object. The ideas are free.

Lots of people can start playing with home energy monitoring, social aspects of the data sharing, home automation, ambient displays, etc. The powerful thing about messaging middleware like MQTT, is that you don’t have to worry about how to get the messages from A to B: you can focus on how to capture the data, and what to do with it when it gets to the other end.

Avi was co-founder of Keyhole, maker of Earthviewer (which later became Google Earth). Also, Avi developed technologies for Second Life, including the procedural 3D object rendering code.” The pictures above are from his portfolio (from left to right, Linden Lab’s Second Life, World Design’s Virtual Environment Theater, Disney Imagineering).

Although Robert’s new AR platform is still under wraps, I think you will get a good idea of what direction he is going in from this interview (full text at end of this post). Robert is the author of “MMO Evolution” and is a key developer and thought leader in persistent immersive environments, simulations, virtual worlds and massively multiplayer games as well as large scale communities and social networking.

Extended Environments Markup Language (EEML), a protocol for sharing sensor data between remote responsive environments, both physical and virtual.

Welcome to Pachube, a service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual.

Wikitude is a mobile travel guide for the Android platform based on location-based Wikipedia and Qype content. It is a handy application for planning a trip or to find out about landmarks in your surroundings; 350,000 world-wide points of interest may be searched by GPS or by address and displayed in a list view, map view or cam view.

Here's a sampling of user interfaces across compact cameras from every major digital camera maker: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Casio, Olympus and Fujifilm. User interfaces matter in these cameras more than ever because they're increasingly the major way you drill down to change settings or switch modes—rather than manually cranking a dial, like on a pro DSLR. Some are pretty good (Canon, Samsung) while some are pretty bad (Casio).