Editor’s note: For posterity’s sake, I’m reposting some content that we created during our time at Oracle. These statements and views are those of the author and do not reflect those of Oracle’s current user experience organization. Emphasis on emerging technology shapes user experience strategy The AppsLab, the OAUX emerging technologies team, has a passion… Read More
Author: Jake
a.k.a.:jkuramot
Epilogue
The AppsLab experiment ended this week as nearly all of us were let go. Noel and I decided to keep this blog running, both as a historical resume of sorts and as a way for all of us who worked in ‘Lab over the years to share our ongoing adventures and talk about technology. We… Read More
Cross-posting this bit I wrote for the official Oracle Application User Experience blog, enjoy. Recently, at Oracle CloudWorld in New York, Oracle President Thomas Kurian talked about how emerging technologies can change the way you do your job for the better. Investigating this impact is the primary focus of the AppsLab, the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) Emerging… Read More
Jeremy on the Role of Emerging Technology
Here’s a video from our Group Vice President, Jeremy Ashely (@jrwashley) about Emerging Technology and how it should be helping people to use the system. This is a nice, concise description of what we do and why.
Ten years ago, Paul posted a brief introduction to our team and our mission. He, Rich and I embarked on this journey in March 2007, soon to be joined by Anthony, and none of expected to be around as a team for more than 18 months max. But, here we are a decade later, having moved… Read More
Oracle Code (@oracledevs) begins tomorrow in San Francisco, and we’ll be there. What is Oracle Code? Check out the video, which includes our Gadget Lab at HQ, robot arm demo, VR egg chair and Tony O giving a tour. Specifically, Raymond (@yuhuaxie) and Mark (@mvilrokx) will be hosting IoT Workshops like they did during JavaOne and OpenWorld 2016.… Read More
Blogging and long-form content seem so tedious to me nowadays, but if you’ve read here for a while, you’ll recall that I used to post several times a week. One of the reasons I’ve kept this blog running in the era of ever-shorter content is that it keeps a historical record of this team’s work and… Read More
Lots going on here at the ‘Lab as always, and now, I have video to prove it. First, a large of our daily routines now involve showing off our demos to visitor to the User Experience Cloud Labs at Oracle HQ. Our demos live in a space we affectionately call the Gadget Lab, and during… Read More
Blast from the Past: Gesture-Controlled Robot Arm
Hard to believe it’s been nearly three years since we debuted the Leap Motion-controlled robot arm. Since then, it’s been a mainstay demo for us, combining a bit of fun with the still-emergent interaction mechanism, gesture. Anthony (@anthonyslai) remains the master of the robot arm, and since we lost access to the original video, Noel… Read More
The Digital Hotel Key
Generally, I’m not in favor of consolidating important stuff onto my phone, e.g. credit cards, etc. because if I lose my phone, I’ll lose all that stuff too. However, I’ve been waiting to try out a digital hotel key, i.e. using my phone to unlock my hotel room. Only a few hotels and hotel chains have… Read More
Fun Project from Australia, Anki Overdrive Plus Oracle Cloud Services
Editor’s Note: In February while we were in Australia, I had the pleasure to meet Stuart Coggins (@ozcoggs) and Scott Newman (@lamdadsn). They told me about a sweet Anki Overdrive cars plus Oracle Cloud Services hack Stuart and some colleagues did for Pausefest 2016 in Melbourne. Last week, Stuart sent over a more detailed video of the… Read More
The April That Was and Our Plans for May and June
Hi there, remember me? Wow, April was a busy month for us, and looking ahead, it’s getting busy again. Busy is good, and also good, is the emergence of new voices here at the ‘Lab. They’ve done a great job holding down the fort. Since my last post in late March, you’ve heard from Raymond… Read More
Have Fun out There
Yesterday, I talked, in part, about how we can, if we choose, work all the time, from the moment we open our eyes, until we close them for sleep. So today’s as good a Friday as any to remind you to balance all that work with some fun. We here at the AppsLab are big… Read More
How We Go Through Our Day
Earlier this month, our strategy and roadmap eBook was released. In it, you’ll find all the whys, wherefores, whats and hows that drive the Simplicity-Mobility-Extensibility design philosophy we follow for Oracle Cloud Applications. The eBook is free, as in beer, and it’s a great resource if you find yourself wondering why we do what we… Read More
New Content on Our Oracle.com Page
Back in September, our little team got a big boost when we launched official content under the official Oracle.com banner. I’ve been doing this job for various different organizations at Oracle for nine years now, and we’ve always existed on the fringe. So, having our own home for content within the Oracle.com world is a major… Read More
Is the Mi Band the Harbinger of Affordable #fashtech?
So, here’s a new thing I’ve noticed lately, customizable wearables, specifically the Xiaomi Mi Band (#MiBand), which is cheap and completely extensible. This happens to be Ultan’s (@ultan) new fitness band of choice, and coincidentally, Christina’s (@ChrisKolOrcl) as well. Although both are members of Oracle Applications User Experience (@usableapps), neither knew the other was wearing… Read More
A Wonderful Week in Australia
2016 has been a whirlwind so far, and February kept up the pace. Here’s a quick rundown of what we’ve been doing. As we did last year, OAUX made a trip to APAC again this year to meet partners, customers and Oracle people, show our Expo of goodies and talk simplicity-mobility-extensibility, Glance, Scan, Commit and our… Read More
Put Glance on It
Because I live in Portland, I’m often asked if “Portlandia” is accurate. It is, mostly, and so it seems appropriate to channel an early episode to talk about Glance, our wearables framework. Actually, Glance has grown beyond wearables to support cars and other devices, the latest of which is Noel’s (@noelportugal) gadget du jour, the LaMetric Time (@smartatoms).… Read More
Come Visit the OAUX Gadget Lab
In September 2014, Oracle Applications User Experience (@usableapps) opened a brand new lab that showcases Oracle’s Cloud Applications, specifically the many innovations that our organization has made to and around Cloud Applications in the past handful of year. We call it the Cloud User Experience Lab, or affectionately, the Cloud Lab. Our team has several… Read More
My Joyful Consumption of Data
I love data, always have. To feed this love and to compile data sets for my quantified self research, I recently added the Netatmo Weather Station to the other nifty devices that monitor and quantify my everyday life, including Fitbit Aria, Automatic and Nest. I’ve been meaning to restart my fitness data collection too, after spending most of… Read More