to be someone who makes things.
I remember when I was 14 and I was studying to pass the exam to enter this technical school in Manaus[1], and I was trying to make the cut into the Computer Science high school. I know I was hoping to...
View ArticleA cold night in Finland.
The story of how alternative human-computer interaction started for me: Late 2007, we were invited to participate in a quick meeting with the corporate social responsibility team in Nokia. They had...
View Articlethe rules of my thumb #0 – intro post
I wish to transform my own repertoire of early experiments into building blocks of scientific investigation maturity. Hopefully this will reflect on solutions to be developed further. A quick note on...
View ArticleWe are all disabled #0 – Intro post.
I have told you the story about how I started to be interested in human-computer interactions here. I got deeply amazed about how accessibility problems (situations were the disabled strived to use a...
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Technology for Pai Mei Precision Interaction.
In order to perform the event of focusing on most mobile phone cameras, you need to press the tiny little shutter button half-way down? Half-way down. That is an example of how much of a surgeon...
View ArticleArduino adventures #1
I am arduinoing. It feels awesome. Ask anyone who’s been playing with it. It kind of links to the feelings of hope I had when I first started programming. It’s been a long time, but when I was...
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Getting physical – Arduino adventures #2
I have a very clear picture of me, in 1997, the coolest sideburns in my class (although they looked like underarm hair) at the Database Introduction class. Our teacher introduced us to the concept of...
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I heart alternatives to touching a screen…
…simply because it bothers me having anything between my eye and what I’m looking at (even if it’s my own finger). Those milliseconds I can’t see what I have just decided to choose/click/touch in an...
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Paving the way for the short-film : branding
Hi. I get very excited every time I see an argument that supports the idea of this short-film I’m working on. Without mentioning what it is about, I want to start making sense of it by throwing here...
View ArticleMy rubber duck’s recorder.
On the way home after the first post on this blog, I was thinking that in a short while there is a huge chance that the things I write here will get embarrassingly obsolete. There is also a huge chance...
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Comfort Zone
I just had to reblog this. I am looking forward to taking the comfort zone concept to materialized software pretty soon. Stay tuned. Also, I really dig Savage Chickens
View ArticleBrigadeiro candy video is out!
This is a short video created and produced by Deborah Nogueira. I was kindly invited to participated by doing the drawings on chocolate mini-drops. We hang a Nokia Lumia 920 on the top of our kitchen...
View ArticleHuman-Computer Interaction – Campus Party 2014 – M-Inclusion
Hello All, It seems this is my first post this year. Sigh. I will work on my posting rhythm, promise. This was a talk I gave in M-Inclusion Panel at Campus Party. M-Inclusion is a Support Action,...
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My pants saying “to go”
Non-verbal is all I think about these days. As some of my work is under revision, I will refrain from sharing too much at this point.. ..But I really enjoyed visiting http://tldrwikipedia.tumblr.com/...
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Keeping up with 2014… oh wait..
I feel I have been out most of 2014. It was a full year and I feel justified on my absence from the blog. Here is a list of checkpoints I should/will? narrate in the following posts: Presented at...
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They say “never meet your heroes”…
…well they were wrong. This is a late-late post (this was in NordiCHI’14), but I just had to write something about it. Dr. Norman (chillin’ with me in the picture) is basically the icon for...
View ArticleTHEY DON’T SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN MEXICO
The Happy Birthday app is one simple and cute app I made (about 7 years ago) that uses the alternative interaction of blowing at the phone to put out birthday cake candles. One cool thing about this...
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I’m back!
I feel I owe you (my unknown readers) an apology for my silence. 2016 and 2017 have been crazy and a lot has changed. List me list it out, for self In the beginning of 2016 I switched jobs and tried...
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