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 [...]
Also posted in Interaction design, Research, Visual design | Tagged animation, design, electromagnetic fields, EMF, infoviz, photography, Radio, Visualisation, visualization, Waves |
By Timo | 22 September 2009
Skål (Norwegian for bowl) is a product that has emerged from the Bowl project. It is a media player designed for the home that acts as the interface between physical objects and related digital media on a television.
This video shows Skål in action. A bowl sits on the living room table and a range of [...]
By Timo | 18 September 2009
After two years of development, many awards and publications, we have finally given Sara Johanssons’s Sniff the proper communication it deserves.
Sniff is first and foremost a high-quality physical toy dog, that can withstand the rough and tumble of everyday play and activities. But Sniff’s interactive elements add an extra dimension of experience and engagement. Through [...]
This is a video prototype of an iPhone media player that uses physical objects to control media playback. It is based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) that triggers various iPhone interactions when in the range of a wireless tag embedded inside a physical object.
RFID is becoming more common in mobile phones (under the term Near [...]
Also posted in Interaction design, Product design, Research | Tagged apple, arphid, cellphone, contactless, interaction, interface, iphone, lens interface, media, Mobile, nfc, objects, phone, products, rfid, sensor, sensors, spime, tangible, tangible interaction, video |
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 [...]
Also posted in Interaction design, Research, Social & cultural research | Tagged culture, design, 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 [...]
Also posted in Interaction design, Product design, Research | Tagged design, form, form and function, industrial design, Interaction design, objects, Product design, thing, things |
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, Interaction design, 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 |
By Timo | 5 December 2007
In spring 2007 interaction design students at AHO participated in a research-driven course called Tangible interactions that investigated themes around RFID, NFC and the Touch project. This is one of the projects that emerged from the course.
In this project called “the bubbles of radio” Ingeborg Marie Dehs Thomas used critical, visual design as a way [...]
Also posted in Interaction design, Student projects, Visual design | Tagged Bluetooth, DAB, Drawing, Electromagnetic Waves, EMF, GSM, Illustration, nfc, Pervasive computing, Radio, rfid, Spectrum, ubicomp, Ubiquitous computing, Visualisation, Waves, Wireless, Zigbee |