At last year’s Picnic conference we created a networked Photo Booth as part of the Mediamatic RFID hackers camp. Picnic is a conference with about two thousand attendees and multiple venues in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. One of the aims of the Mediamatic workshop was to experiment with ubiquitous technology for social and playful purposes. [...]
Also posted in Events, Interaction design, Research, Workshops | Tagged conference, gestural interaction, Interaction design, networked objects, nfc, online social networks, Photo booth, photography, Picnic, Picnic 07, Picnic network, rfid, social media, social networking, social networks, tangible interaction |
By Timo | 5 December 2007
In spring 2007 interaction design students at AHO participated in a research-driven course called Tangible interactions that investigated themes around RFID, NFC and the Touch project. This is one of the projects that emerged from the course. In this project called “the bubbles of radio” Ingeborg Marie Dehs Thomas used critical, visual design as a [...]
Also posted in Interaction design, Student projects, Visual design | Tagged Bluetooth, DAB, Drawing, Electromagnetic Waves, EMF, GSM, Illustration, nfc, Pervasive computing, Radio, rfid, Spectrum, ubicomp, Ubiquitous computing, Visualisation, Waves, Wireless, Zigbee |
By Timo | 3 December 2007
In spring 2007 interaction design students at AHO participated in a research-driven course called Tangible interactions that investigated themes around RFID, NFC and the Touch project. This is one of the projects that emerged from the course. Bowl is a project by Einar Sneve Martinussen, Jørn Knutsen and Timo Arnall and investigated two design briefs: [...]
Also posted in Interaction design, Product design, Service design, Student projects | Tagged children, interaction, interface, media, rfid, social media, technology, television, tv |
By Timo | 22 October 2007
In collaboration with Helsinki-based development project Social Objects we have developed an installation called Green Touch. The exhibition encourage visitors to touch the design objects on display with mobile devices, in order to explore different aspects of their making, production and impact. Green Touch builds upon Thinglink that socially connects and creates information surrounding products, [...]
By Timo | 22 September 2006
Although the Touch project is primarily about NFC and mobile phones, we recently created a table-based interface. Why have we done this? Because it’s a quick demonstrator of near-field interactions in a setup that is instantly accessible. Our intentions are: To probe the perceived relationships between physical characters and their digital counterparts. It isn’t yet [...]
By Timo | 7 September 2006
In March 2006 fourth year interaction design students at AHO conducted intense one-week investigations into Near Field Communication in a project called Touchable services. See more student projects. Jon Olav Eikenes, Guilia Schneider, Bjørn Erik Haugen and Marie Wennesland created a high-level concept that proposed the idea that once we start to use our phones [...]
Also posted in Interaction design, Mobile, Product design, Research, Retail, Service design, Student projects | Tagged amazon, collaborative filtering, community, Near Field Communication, nfc, rfid, wallet phones |
By Timo | 4 September 2006
In March 2006 Fourth year interaction design students at AHO conducted intense one-week investigations into Near Field Communication in a project called Touchable services. See more student projects. Einar Sneve Martinussen, André Borgen, Paolo Dell’elce and Henrik Marstrander looked at how to increase the cohesion of local communities. As a starting point they studied a [...]