Touch » south korea 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 RFID gestures http://www.nearfield.org/2008/06/rfid-gestures http://www.nearfield.org/2008/06/rfid-gestures#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:41:29 +0000 Timo http://www.nearfield.org/?p=309 While thinking about radio-field-based interactions and the gestures that they entail I’m reminded of this quote by Adam in Everyware:

“If you really want to know what information processing dissolving in behaviour really looks like, catch the way women swing their handbags across the Octopus readers at the turnstiles of the Mong Kok subway station; there’s nothing in the slightest to suggest that this casual 0.3-second gesture is the site of intense technical intervention.”

Some of the most common RFID gestures that have truly become part of everyday life are in contactless ticketing. Here are some images I took in Seoul, South Korea:

RFID ticket interactions 2

RFID ticket interactions 1

RFID ticket interactions 3

Surprisingly, there is not a lot of work on the spatial or gestural aspects of radio-based interfaces. There is some work towards looking at the spatial aspects of camera-based interactions:

Reeves, S. et al., 2006. The spatial character of sensor technology. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Designing Interactive systems. University Park, PA, USA: ACM Press, pp. 31-40.

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]]> http://www.nearfield.org/2008/06/rfid-gestures/feed 3 RFID in Seoul: first impressions http://www.nearfield.org/2006/07/rfid-in-seoul-first-impressions http://www.nearfield.org/2006/07/rfid-in-seoul-first-impressions#comments Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:37:23 +0000 Timo http://www.nearfield.org/2006/07/rfid-in-seoul-first-impressions I’m in Seoul, South Korea looking at the use of mobile technology and RFID.

The first encounter with RFID came only an hour or so off the plane by the Metro ticketing machines, a kind lady showed a mobile phone strap that contained a T Money card:

First encounter with RFID

Within a few minutes I had a charged up T Money card and figured out the over-designed ticket gates. Quite good for a totally new system with new languages and currency.

T Money

Validating

Later, at a ‘Family Mart’, there was a hastily placed payment terminal that offered payment for mobile phones.

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The touch indicator is very HAL-like, I imagine it glows softly red when a payment is made. More to investigate…

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