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, Projects, Visual design | Tagged animation, design, electromagnetic fields, EMF, infoviz, photography, Radio, Visualisation, visualization, Waves |
By Timo | 10 October 2009
Next week we’re launching some new work that explores the spatial aspects of RFID. So before we publish that, here is a quick summary of existing work on radio, sensors and space that I’ve been compiling for a while.
The ‘Radiogenic’
Dunne & Raby introduce the idea of ‘Hertzian space’ in Design Noir and Hertzian Tales where [...]
Also posted in Interaction design, Visual design | Tagged design, electromagnetic, EMF, interaction, Radio, radiogenic, ubicomp, Ubiquitous computing, 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 | 20 September 2009
In the design of the interactive elements of Sniff, Sara had to use visual diagramming as a way of exploring, understanding and prototyping with non-visual feedback such as sound and vibration (haptics).
Sara developed a speech bubble approach to annotating physical objects, so that they look like they are ‘saying’ the audio and haptic feedback.
The representation [...]
By Timo | 15 September 2009
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 [...]
Also posted in Interaction design, Visual design | Tagged chain reaction, design, design research, exploration, film, genres, interaction, internet of things, nfc, proximity, research mediation, rfid, ubicomp, video |
By Timo | 4 September 2009
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 RFIDView more documents from Chen pinmiao.
What is especially lovely is the way in which the [...]
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, Projects | Tagged apple, arphid, cellphone, contactless, interaction, interface, iphone, lens interface, media, Mobile, nfc, objects, phone, products, rfid, sensor, sensors, spime, tangible, tangible interaction, video |
We recently had the chance to present Touch at the event Kreative Oslo 09 at DogA, the Norwegian Center for Design and Architecture. Kreative Oslo is a broad seminar that gathers the creative fields in Oslo, including art, design, research, commercial actors, cultural institutions etc.
Presenting Touch at a event like this is a good opportunity [...]