By Timo | 29 September 2008
Plug and play RFID-reading USB peripherals are all the rage, as indicated by a stream of recent product announcements. These readers plug into a PC and make various things happen when they are touched with an RFID tag. RFID readers are small and cheap, encapsulating them in packaging and offering a standard USB interface makes [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Product design, Research | Tagged electronics, hardware, industrial design, nfc, personal informatics, physical computing, Product design, products, rfid, ubicomp, Ubiquitous computing |
By Timo | 19 September 2008
I’m happy to say that with great contributions from Nicolas Nova, Matt Jones and many others, the pool of images of ‘touch interfaces’ on Flickr is growing nicely. I originally asked for contributions in February 2005, and the pool has been growing steadily ever since. This collection of ‘vernacular’ designs for RFID-based interfaces is extremely [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Payments, Product design, Research, Retail, Ticketing, Visual design | Tagged design, infoviz, nfc, rfid, touch, touch interface, vernacular, visual, Visualisation, visualization |
From the Picnic conference last year, Mediamatic’s ‘RFID safe’ which protects your wireless RFID cards from being read or ‘skimmed’. With Mifare security problems a reality, and the ability to skim cards such as the Oyster fairly easily, I wonder how common these things will become? Related Anti Skimming Devices Highly Recommended for This Year’s [...]
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. [...]
Posted in Events, Interaction design, Projects, 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 |
While thinking about radio-field-based interactions and the gestures that they entail I’m reminded of this quote by Adam in Everyware: “If you really want to know what information processing dissolving in behaviour really looks like, catch the way women swing their handbags across the Octopus readers at the turnstiles of the Mong Kok subway station; [...]
Posted in Payments, Research, Ticketing | Tagged contactless, gestural, gestural interaction, gestures, nfc, Radio, rfid, seoul, south korea, subway, tangible interaction, Ticketing |
This week the the MA interaction design course Tangible Interactions is having its summer exhibition at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The students have been focusing on designing interactions with RFID technology. This years exhibition includes games, token-based media, transactions, wayshowing, a story-telling pillow, ‘twittering’ things and more. The exhibition is a part [...]
Posted in About the project, Events, Interaction design, Student projects | Tagged design, exhibition, industrial design, interaction, interface, nfc, norway, oslo, rfid, technology |
I happened to catch the American-centric documentary history of the mobile phone called The Cellphone Revolution yesterday. The most compelling content was the early visualisations of cellular networks, made by Motorola and AT&T at the time that they were trying to convince the FCC that mobile telephony was important. It also features rather nice footage [...]
Touch and travel is a German pilot scheme (one of many) that is testing NFC for ticketing on public transport. One of the partners in the trial Giesecke and Devrient describe it: “With the new eTicketing System Touch&Travel from Deutsche Bahn (DB), the mobile phone serves as an electronic ticket on trains, buses, streetcars, subways, [...]
Posted in Payments, Service design, Ticketing, Visual design | Tagged bahn, berlin, contactless, db, deutsche bahn, die bahn, germany, Mobile, nfc, payment, rfid, touch and travel, ubicomp |