What if Leopold didn’t have a piano? That was the question posed by designer and philosopher Bill Buxton in his lecture sponsored by Alberta Ingenuity. A musician by training, a scientist and pioneer in computer graphics by reputation, this brilliant thinker has lots to say about changing our perspective on innovation, technology and being human.

Originally posted at: http://www.innovationalberta.com/article.php?articleid=669

Innovation Alberta's 2005 November Interview with Bill Buxton

"Nowadays Bill is a principal researcher with Microsoft Research, and before that he was chief scientist at Alias/Wavefront, but his involvement in the design of software and hardware user interfaces goes all the way back to Xerox PARC. Along the way he’s accumulated a fund of wisdom about what he calls design thinking — a way of producing, illustrating, and winnowing ideas about how products could work."

Originally posted by Jon Udell at http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/05/31/a-conversation-with-bill-buxton-about-design-thinking/

A conversation with Bill Buxton about design thinking

"Earlier this week, Dan Misener wrote about digital Swiss Army knives. Today, Nora talked to researchers Bill Buxton and Jared Spool about the relative merits of single-purpose and multi-function devices. A shorter version of this discussion will air on Spark 98, but you can hear the full, uncut interview below, or download the MP3."

Originally posted  2010 01 07 at: http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2010/01/full-interview-bill-buxton-and-jared-spool/

CBC Spark: Full Interview: Bill Buxton and Jared Spool

"This week on Spark: touch, voice, gesture, sound - bringing the senses back into tech. An online audio resurgence, the deep dark history of the Qwerty keyboard, and a look at the good and bad of voice and gesture commands.

Sound On: 
Veronica Simmonds 
The digital edition of The Walrus 
Dr. Michael Bull 

Keyboarding 101:
Martin Howard 
Bill Buxton
Stan Liebowitz 
Full Spark interview with Philip Stedman 
Full Spark interview with Jared Spool 

Gestural Computing: 
Jonty Sharples 
Daniel Vogel 
Video of the Myo controller that responds to arm muscle movement 
Video of the Leap motion controller 

Museum Tech: 
Larry Friedlander 
Larry referenced this Sitsim project 
Sitsim demo video
Larry's paper for the Museums and the Web conference"

Originally posted on 2013 04 21 at: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/214-listen-touch-command-1.2847832

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