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Playful augmented products
This is a design brief, one of many themes that the Touch project is investigating. It extends an older brief Playful RFID with an emphasis on exploring material and experience prototyping. Last week Interaction Design students at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design participated in a Touch workshop where the brief was to design [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Product design, Student projects, Workshops Also tagged aho, industrial design, nfc, oslo, products, rfid, tikitag 2 Comments
Images of touch interfaces
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 Also tagged infoviz, nfc, rfid, touch, touch interface, vernacular, visual, Visualisation, visualization 1 Comment
Contact-less
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 [...]
Tangible Interactions – summer exhibition
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 Also tagged exhibition, industrial design, interaction, interface, nfc, norway, oslo, rfid, technology Leave a comment
Thoughts on Nokia’s NFC developments
On April 15th Nokia announced the 6212 ‘classic’ phone that incorporates Near Field Communication technology. This phone is the fourth NFC-capable phone from Nokia in as many years and it is the first NFC device that supports 3G data connections. This is a simple ‘classic’ or ‘candybar’ design like the earliest NFC models. Nokia has [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Mobile, News, Product design, Technicalities Also tagged 6212 NFC, industrial design, Interaction design, Near Field Communication, nfc, Nokia, Product design, products, rfid, technology 16 Comments
Two Touch projects on show at DogA
Two projects from Touch are on show at the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture (DogA) in Oslo for the next month. Sniff and Bowl are part of the Unge Talenter exhibition that runs until 27 April 2008. Both are interactive and are running at the exhibition for you to try them out. Sniff is [...]
Playful augmented products workshop