{"id":166,"date":"2008-02-20T06:02:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=166"},"modified":"2008-02-20T06:02:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T22:02:40","slug":"body-shaping-for-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Body shaping for technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Spring 07 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambidextrousmag.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ambidextrous Magazine<\/a> (theme : The Future) comes this fascinating snippet of how people are modifying their behaviours to use technology.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, an 18 yeart old student called Altan reveals how:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230;he has begun to experiment with increasing his own efficiency; he reshapes his fingernails to accurate points to better use tiny touch screens.&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This speaks loudly to a couple of interesting trains of thought:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>the technology is designed badly in the first place &#8211; interfaces that require body modification should not really make it out of the lab (&#8220;Hey Mum, I just got my head modified to make my ear closer to my mouth to use this waaay cool tiny phone&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>scanning for weak signals like this can reveal valuable insights into the design of your product<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(p.s. I&#8217;m catching up on a lot of magazine backlog, so excuse the timeliness of this post.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Spring 07 issue of Ambidextrous Magazine (theme : The Future) comes this fascinating snippet of how people are modifying their behaviours to use technology. In an interview, an 18 yeart old student called Altan reveals how: &#8220;&#8230;he has begun to experiment with increasing his own efficiency; he reshapes his fingernails to accurate points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-fringes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}