By Timo | 19 October 2009
Jack Schulze has written up some thoughts and background on the new RFID icon based on our Immaterials’ visualisation work from last week.
Download a vector file of this creative commons symbol.
By Timo | 12 October 2009
This video is about exploring the spatial qualities of RFID, visualised through an RFID probe, long exposure photography and animation. It features Timo Arnall of the Touch project and Jack Schulze of BERG.
The problem and opportunity of invisibility
RFID is still badly understood as an interactive technology. Many aspects of RFID interaction are fundamentally invisible; as [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Projects, Research, Visual design | Also tagged animation, electromagnetic fields, EMF, infoviz, photography, Radio, Visualisation, visualization, Waves |
By Timo | 10 October 2009
Next week we’re launching some new work that explores the spatial aspects of RFID. So before we publish that, here is a quick summary of existing work on radio, sensors and space that I’ve been compiling for a while.
The ‘Radiogenic’
Dunne & Raby introduce the idea of ‘Hertzian space’ in Design Noir and Hertzian Tales where [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Research, Visual design | Also tagged electromagnetic, EMF, interaction, Radio, radiogenic, ubicomp, Ubiquitous computing, Visualisation, visualization, Waves |
By Timo | 15 September 2009
One of the essential properties of Near Field Communication is nearness, but this is set against one of the paradoxes of touch-based interaction where, in fact, nothing needs to touch. In a very short film made with BERG, we explore nearness in interactive technologies.
Hat tip towards The way things go, that Honda commercial and Pythagora [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Research, Visual design | Also tagged chain reaction, design research, exploration, film, genres, interaction, internet of things, nfc, proximity, research mediation, rfid, ubicomp, video |
We recently had the chance to present Touch at the event Kreative Oslo 09 at DogA, the Norwegian Center for Design and Architecture. Kreative Oslo is a broad seminar that gathers the creative fields in Oslo, including art, design, research, commercial actors, cultural institutions etc.
Presenting Touch at a event like this is a good opportunity [...]
By Einar | 23 February 2009
We recently presented our paper Designing with RFID at the Tangible and Embedded Interaction conference in Cambridge UK. This presentation was part of a session on ‘enabling technologies and design techniques’. The presentation focused on how we look at the physical aspects of RFID form through design.
The full presentation is available on Slideshare and you [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Projects, Research, Social & cultural research | Also tagged culture, ethnographic, ethnography, Interaction design, reference, Research, resource, senses, touch |
By Timo | 17 February 2009
In Designing with RFID we explore the potential for RFID objects in everyday contexts. Because RFID is a wireless, radio-based technology it is inherently invisible once embedded, and this raises issues around visibility and interaction. How does the addition of hidden interactive qualities influence the design of physical RFID objects? There is a need to [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Product design, Projects, Research | Also tagged form, form and function, industrial design, Interaction design, objects, Product design, thing, things |