Monthly Archives: June 2006

Workshop: Near field interactions

By Timo | 20 June 2006

This is a call for proposals for a workshop on user-centred interactions with the internet of things at Nordichi 2006, October 14 and 15, 2006 in Oslo, Norway.
The user-centred Internet of Things
The so-called ‘Internet of Things’ is a vision of the future of networked things that share a record of their interactions with context, [...]

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RFID, logistics and material flow

By Timo | 12 June 2006

On the final day of How I learned to love RFID we visited the Fraunhofer institute for material flow and logistics. The institute concentrates on supply chain, logistic and robotic applications. They also foster the Open ID Center, that intends to create open platforms for the use of RFID in the supply chain.
Logistics and supply [...]

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Rob van Kranenburg at ‘How I learned to love RFID’

By Timo | 11 June 2006

On the 20th May, Rob van Kranenburg talked at How I learned to love RFID in HMKV in Dortmund, Germany.
This is a short summary of a huge presentation on RFID issues, that covered many valuable topics including local activism, EU policy on ubiquitous computing, participatory culture and distributed computing. Rob seems to be someone that [...]

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FoeBud: How we learned to stop RFID

By Timo | 5 June 2006

FoeBud are a German group of privacy activists that has has a long history of public interventions in privacy and RFID. Rena Tangens and Padeluun presented their work at the recent workshop How I learned to love RFID at HMKV in Dortmund. This is a brief writeup of their talk and the issues raised during [...]

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Bruce Sterling at ‘How I learned to love RFID’

By Timo | 5 June 2006

On the 20th May, Bruce Sterling talked at How I learned to love RFID in HMKV in Dortmund, Germany.
He covers a lot of ground, including approaches to sustainability, artist use of RFID and proposed interventions, many of the themes from Shaping Things. When he lays out the potential for misuse, the use of RFID for [...]

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