The Touch project is multi-disciplinary and connected to a wide variety of international projects and practitioners.

Timo Arnall

Timo leads the Touch project after proposing NFC as an interesting research area to the Norwegian Research Council in 2005. Timo has a history of design in diverse media: from broadcast design to advertising, web and interaction design for mobile services, including work on the first mobile social software platforms in 2000. Most recently Timo lectured in interaction design, physical computing, storytelling and design methodology at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design (AHO).

Kjetil Nordby

Kjetil is an industrial designer with a Master in interaction design from Umeå. He has lectured, tutored and censored students at Oslo School of Architecture & Design and held courses at the University of Oslo.

Kjetil is co-founder of Orooni AS and has worked for several leading Norwegian companies on diverse topics: Lamp design (luxo), Augmented reality robot programming (ABB Research), future mobile services (Telenor R&D), Office chair design (HAAG) and instant messaging systems (Orooni AS). He holds an interface patent for the Orooni messenger and has participated in 12 national and international exhibitions.

Kjetil is creating a three year PhD as part of the project.

Einar Sneve Martinussen

Einar has a background from architecture and urbanism and has recently completed his diploma thesis on urban computing at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Research interests include everyday life and technology in domestic, urban and rural spaces. Einar is part of the design group Tengil and his previous work include sound, electronics and gaming.

Anne Galloway

Anne Galloway is a social researcher working at the intersections of technology, space and culture. Anne writes at purselipsquarejaw and spaceandculture journal. Anne is studying the cross-cultural meanings of touch, working on exploratory design probes, interviews and observations and creating design briefs around the findings.

Stian Børresen

Stian Børresen is a software developer with a history of work in large media, 3D and mobile applications. Stian specialises in mobile applications and is an expert in NFC development as part of the Touch project.

Simon Clatworthy

Simon Clatworthy is Professor of Interaction Design at AHO. Simon brings strong research management and leadership skills to the project with a history of work with emerging technologies at companies such as Telenor.

Students

The project works with masters-level students from interaction and industrial design at AHO.

2007
Katarina Kjelland, Knut-Jørgen V Rishaug, Sara Johansson, Markus Utomo, Einar Sneve Martinussen, Jørn Knutsen, Øyvind Østmo, André Granly, David Vågenes, Ingeborg Marie Dehs Thomas and Una Bjerkan Heimstad.

2008
Alice Andreoli, Christer Carlsson, Fan Fan, Gunnar Bothner-By, Ingrid Alice Clausen, Knut Karlsen, Kyrre M. Kalseth, Marianne Rolfsen, Martin Sandstø, Natacha Ruivo and Silje Softing.