By Timo | 13 February 2009
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 [...]
By Timo | 30 September 2008
Poken is offering a physical networking platform, with physical, RFID-based objects that plug into a PC via USB (where have we heard that before?) A Poken is a connected business card, when you meet people you want to connect to, you touch their ‘poken’ and get added to their Open Social network. Just tap your [...]
Also posted in News, Product design | Tagged industrial design, nfc, physical computing, Product design, products, rfid, situated software, social media, social networking, social networks, social software, tangible interactions |
By Timo | 30 September 2008
A Dutch company, Swinxs is developing a physical RFID-based console with RFID wristbands for children. They claim to be encouraging physical activities and ‘stimulating imagination’. The console includes versions of Tag, multiple Quiz games, Hide and Seek and Charades. The base-station connects to the internet for uploading scores and downloading content. The movie on their [...]
By Timo | 29 September 2008
Plug and play RFID-reading USB peripherals are all the rage, as indicated by a stream of recent product announcements. These readers plug into a PC and make various things happen when they are touched with an RFID tag. RFID readers are small and cheap, encapsulating them in packaging and offering a standard USB interface makes [...]
Also posted in Product design, Research | Tagged electronics, hardware, industrial design, nfc, personal informatics, physical computing, Product design, products, rfid, ubicomp, Ubiquitous computing |
By Timo | 19 September 2008
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 [...]
Also posted in Payments, Product design, Research, Retail, Ticketing, Visual design | Tagged design, infoviz, nfc, rfid, touch, touch interface, vernacular, visual, Visualisation, visualization |
At last year’s Picnic conference we created a networked Photo Booth as part of the Mediamatic RFID hackers camp. Picnic is a conference with about two thousand attendees and multiple venues in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. One of the aims of the Mediamatic workshop was to experiment with ubiquitous technology for social and playful purposes. [...]
Also posted in Events, Projects, Research, Workshops | Tagged conference, gestural interaction, Interaction design, networked objects, nfc, online social networks, Photo booth, photography, Picnic, Picnic 07, Picnic network, rfid, social media, social networking, social networks, tangible interaction |
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 [...]
Also posted in About the project, Events, Student projects | Tagged design, exhibition, industrial design, interaction, interface, nfc, norway, oslo, rfid, technology |
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 [...]
Also posted in Mobile, News, Product design, Technicalities | Tagged 6212 NFC, design, industrial design, Interaction design, Near Field Communication, nfc, Nokia, Product design, products, rfid, technology |