Sniff wins prize for ‘Design for all’

Sara Johansson’s project ‘Sniff’ has won the IT Funk prize for best student project in Design for all at this year’s Oslo School of Architecture & Design prize giving.

“Sniff is a toy dog that gives feedback through sounds and vibrations on tagged objects that comes close to his nose. The use can be in daily situations as well as in play, either alone, together with other kids or together with other Sniffs.”

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Her project is written up as a good case study here (in Norwegian), and there is much more details about the project in Sara’s own report (PDF, in English).

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Sara was working with the Playful RFID brief this spring. Her project will be documented further here alongside the other results from the course.

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  1. Gill 17 January 2008

    This project is so stunningly simple and thoughtful. Wonderful stuff.

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