Touch » design research http://www.nearfield.org Interaction with RFID and NFC Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:41:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nearness http://www.nearfield.org/2009/09/nearness http://www.nearfield.org/2009/09/nearness#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:01:07 +0000 Timo http://www.nearfield.org/?p=1247 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 Switch.

Some photos.

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]]> http://www.nearfield.org/2009/09/nearness/feed 37 Design research mediation, layering http://www.nearfield.org/2009/09/design-research-mediation-layering http://www.nearfield.org/2009/09/design-research-mediation-layering#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:26:42 +0000 Timo http://www.nearfield.org/?p=1240 Just a quick post to flag up a little discovery: Chen, Pin-maio of the Graduate School of Design, Spatial Media Group in Taipei has posted a great reflection (Google translation) of our Designing with RFID research from last year.

Designing With RFID
View more documents from Chen pinmiao.

What is especially lovely is the way in which the images from our paper are carefully interpreted and annotated visually with notes and explanations. In many ways it communicates better than the original paper.

And on that note, Nicolas Nova also has a good writeup here.

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]]> http://www.nearfield.org/2009/09/design-research-mediation-layering/feed 0 Touch at Nordes’09 http://www.nearfield.org/2009/08/touch-at-nordes09 http://www.nearfield.org/2009/08/touch-at-nordes09#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:18:05 +0000 Timo http://www.nearfield.org/?p=1227 Touch has an exhibition at Nordes’09 Engaging Artifacts that is taking place at AHO from Sunday 30th August until Wednesday 2 September 2009. Nordes is the Nordic Design Research Conference and this event brings together designers and researchers under the theme of “Engaging artefacts”.

Nordes09

Today has been spent setting up the exhibition space, which consists of three interactive installations that show various aspects of Touch design, innovation and research work including Anne Galloway’s Re/touch and many of the Touch design projects.

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The exhibition itself is free to the public, so if you are in Oslo please drop by, and there will be more on the exhibition here next week.

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