what people say
The Cabinet has been demonstrated to many people now, we have gathered their comments and here are some of the "kudos" we received. These are of course excerpts and sometimes translated.
- Rob van Kranenburg "... Like you stand and watch Ianus slowly take slide away the image he has just photographed and hey! isn't that the original shining through? Magic." In a wonderfully organized visit (by Daniel) of the Virtual Platform and Steim to our facilities. (March 9, 2005)
- Jack Gerrissen "This could have an interesting impact on the social aspects of visual material and support creativity through gestures, like Caroline Hummels previously explored" Visiting the "studiolab" shortly after his uittreerede. (March 9, 2005)
- Sonja Bettel "Simple appealing design, very easy to use, stripped to the bare necessities and a restrained system that doesn't always ask did you really mean...?. I am a person who needs to touch things, be able to arrange them, spread them in front of me. If I would be a designer (which I would love!), I think I would love the Cabinet. " After a short interview for the Austrian Radio programme Matrix . (February 15, 2005)
- Liz Sanders "Very intuitive interface. Though it is designed as a a tool for designers, I keep imagining how it would work as a Thinking/creating tool for the people we call end-users. Imagine what children would do with it in the classroom!" After a very long trip and giving an inspirational speech Liz visited the "studiolab". (December 13, 2004)
- Donald Norman "The only problem I have with this project is you; you make it look so easy and magical that I wonder if it will really work as well when used by other people." (which gave me the opportunity to tell him about the extensive three months on location testing we did at three design companies) During an organized tour of the ID-Studiolab (October 8, 2004)
- Prof. dr. ir. T.J. Fokkema "This makes me proud of the Delft Unversity of Technology, you should be feeling proud as well" During a short impromptu visit at the ID-Studiolab (October 8, 2004)
- Daniel Saakes "Scanning textures works amazingly well; the audio/visual feedback of your prototype however resembles programming my central heating." using the Cabinet for scanning in textures to project on models (October 8, 2004)
- Larry Leifer "Digital libraries need this, designers want this" During a short visit in the ID-Studiolab at the IE&PDE Conference 2004 (September 3, 2004)
- Lorraine Justice "You are doing interesting work" During a tour of the ID-Studiolab at the IE&PDE Conference 2004 (September 3, 2004)
- Keith Ewart "Where can we order these? We want to use them in our user research!" During a short informal tour of the ID-Studiolab (July 26, 2004)
- Koos Schonewille "You really are a neo-encyclopedist, gathering knowledge through objects, enlarged in digital 1's and 0's" Trying to get me back on the ground after all the attention I got at the InnovationPlatform (July 17, 2004)
- Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst "Can I make this image larger... Now I want to make a group of these images" Trying the Cabinet hands-on during a break at the meeting of the Dutch Innovation}platform (July 7, 2004)
- Jan Balkenende: "A very innovative use of different existing technologies" After a demonstration at a meeting of the Dutch Innovation}platform (July 7, 2004)
- Hans van Luijk: "Very impressive, do you see a way to commercialize this?" After a complete presentation of the Cabinet and the research methods (June 25, 2004)
- Bernie DeKoven: "This thing has so many potential. It makes me think of games such as card games or memory I can play with this interface." Referring to the large gestural interface (June 20, 2004)
- Ger Bruens: "Why didn't this exist earlier?" Referring to the ease of scanning (February 23, 2004)
- Jan Willem Drukker: "Is that all??" Referring to the Cabinet's "extreme simplicity in handling" (February 11, 2004)
- Paul Mijksenaar: "It is something in between a lightbox and a reprostand" Referring to the "final prototype" (February 4, 2004)
- Piet Westendorp: "I love the physical interaction with the images, I hope it will scale to large collections" Referring to using the Cabinet for the Westendorp Open Here sized collections (February 4, 2004)
- Igor Freeke: "The elegance of the prototype is that it is made with fairly simple means" and "the project made a big impressiion because of the focus on usability issues " Referring to the Cabinet as an "Overhead Projector" (February 4, 2004)
- Caroline Hummels: "This is the way it should be done" and "It's so easy you can't go wrong" Referring to scanning loads of material on the "final prototype" (January 27, 2004) ... more comments may follow
- Peter Roeland: "I could find my own uses for this machine" Referring to the "final prototype" (January 26, 2004)
- Rudolf Wormgoor: "Really useful for scanning big things" and "You can walk through pages of your report and make a decision to scan right away" Referring to the "final prototype" (January 26, 2004)
- John Flach: "This can really be useful for designers" Referring to the "final prototype" (January 26, 2004)
- Research Advisory board: "Praise for it's realness and the passion for design" Referring to my presentation on the "early prototype" in combination with "TRI" (September 25, 2003)
- Sony Feelware: "It's magical" Referring to scanning on the "early prototype" (September 8, 2003)
- Mark D. Gross: "The cardboard prints are just wonderful, you should really bring that back in the prototype" Referring to the "paper prototype" in combination with a "digital semi-working setup" (June 30, 2003)
