Watch the video of Alfred Astort at the Ifest’08:

What is a designer of User Experience? Someone that strives to create dialogue between man and machine that is fluid and intuitive. When such dialogue becomes monologue, when the computer tells us “Error XXX” and we respond with “Damn it!,” this man-machine interaction is not working.

Microsoft Live Labs, an organization centered on rapid incubation of new technologies for the Internet with the end of improving the evolution of business products, that develops technologies that change the manner of managing and organizing images.

· Seadragon, is a technology that will change the manner of managing and organizing images.

· Its strengths include

o Its speed

o Its high image resolution

o Elegant transitions

o An almost perfect zoom capability at any resolution.

This technology permits the user to see very minute details of images at great resolution. At the same time, it is possible to zoom out to a level where hundreds of images can be viewed as tiny pieces in a grand mosaic.

Seadragon is based on Photosynth, a program that uses photographs to create a three-dimensional simulation that can incorporate hundreds of images.

This is the first step towards an entirely visual and interactive web experience, where there is no intervention by the person but instead, the machine intuitively creates links that facilitates communication between man and data on the machine.

“The quantity, here, does reflect the quality.”

Photosynth is going to be available very soon and “it will be interesting to see the ways this application will be used.”

Anna Solana