Monthly Archives: May 2007

Mobile Camp NYC

By Timo | Published: 17 May 2007
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be presenting at Mobile Camp NYC on Saturday 19th May in New York City. I’ll be presenting some history and context around Physical Hyperlinks and Touch-based interactions. Update Download my presentation here [PDF, 1.8 Mb]
Posted in Events, Mobile, Research | 1 Comment

Hybrid World Lab slides

By Timo | Published: 11 May 2007
This week at the Hybrid World Lab at Mediamatic I have given five presentations related to NFC, physical, tangible, social interactions and design methodology. Here are the slides for each of those presentations. They are PDF files. Designing between things, places and people An introduction to some of my work and current work in the [...]
Posted in Events, Workshops | 2 Comments

Touch as interaction medium

By Timo | Published: 4 May 2007
This is a design brief, one of many themes that the Touch project is investigating. In London, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and elsewhere the ‘swipe’ or ‘tap’ is already a common interaction for paying and entering in a wide variety of public situations. In the near future the mobile phone and RFID card may be [...]
Posted in Design briefs, Interaction design, Research | 3 Comments

NFC access control

By Timo | Published: 4 May 2007
This is a design brief, one of many themes that the Touch project is investigating. RFID and NFC can be used to provide access to places in the same way as traditional keys or tickets. This brief emerged from a frustration with existing access control systems. For interfaces of such potential simplicity they are often [...]
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A graphic language for RFID

By Timo | Published: 4 May 2007
This is a design brief, one of many themes that the Touch project is investigating. RFID is being used for an increasing number of interactions with everyday infrastructures. From travelcards, keyless entry, passports and micropayments to content downloads, smart posters and digital wallets on mobile phones. Attempts have been made to represent these interactions graphically [...]
Posted in Design briefs, Research, Visual design | 9 Comments

Touch design briefs

By Timo | Published: 2 May 2007
The Touch project has been investigating applications and services for RFID and NFC since 2005. Although RFID and NFC have been much hyped, the technologies have been relatively little explored from a design perspective. We have discovered many opportunities for original explorations, studies and design projects. At the beginning of 2007, as we started to [...]
Posted in About the project, Design briefs, Interaction design, Mobile, Research | 12 Comments