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Re/Touch: Inspiring touch-related interaction design

By Anne Galloway | Published: 19 February 2009
One of the things that social and cultural research on touch attempts to grapple with is everything people are supposed to touch and not supposed to touch—and what we actually end up touching or not touching in any given situation. When I first saw Sameer D’Costa’s photo on Flickr, it reminded me of people’s desire [...]
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Introducing touch as culture

By Anne Galloway | Published: 12 October 2006
Hello. My name is Anne Galloway and I’m very pleased to introduce myself as the newest member of the Touch research project team. Some of you may know me from my blog purselipsquarejaw, or my involvement in the spaceandculture journal weblog, but for those who don’t – I’m a social researcher working at the intersections [...]
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Rob van Kranenburg at ‘How I learned to love RFID’

By Timo | Published: 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 [...]
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