Just ask grandma

Design and UX design face the issue of intuitiveness and knowledge. The intuitiveness is something done by intuition. Intuition depends on knowledge. So what comes as intuitive to a young Japanese girl could not be intuitive at all for a young American girl. But there are universal norms based on common knowledge that most people…

Human and android motion from the sky

We live in a 3D world, but we still use paper and screen to learn. So our brain is used to analyze in 2D. Often, when someone wants to observe and analyze a motion, the horizontal point of view is chosen. This choice is simply the natural way for humans to see the world. The…

Expectancies about robots

The more we know someone, the higher are our expectations We want them to deeply understand our habits and our wishes. We would like them to react and be a little bit more like us. The same applies to robots: the more they will look like human beings, the higher will be our expectancies. This…

The main VR issue… today

VR is an amazing tool to be immerge in virtual experiences. The problem is that our brain is connected to our body which one will still provide real feedbacks. When our brain receives info from our eyes that differs from the one received from our body, we get sick. It is mostly an inner ear…