This is a design brief, one of many themes that the Touch project is investigating.

RFID is being used for an increasing number of interactions with everyday infrastructures. From travelcards, keyless entry, passports and micropayments to content downloads, smart posters and digital wallets on mobile phones. Attempts have been made to represent these interactions graphically from [...]

Seen last year on France’s TGV trains, two icons that indicate areas where mobile phone use is allowed:
Awake

Asleep

Some evidence that characters work well beyond the archetypical Suica Penguin…

In previous work I have advocated for the use of dashed lines, my paper for Mobile HCI 2006 [pdf] represents Touch-based interactions with dashed lines, and work on ubicomp iconography uses the dashed line to represent borders, or seams.
I’ve had trouble justifying my excitement about this intricate visual detail, so I thought it would [...]

In December 2005 Adam Greenfield asked me to work with him on icon concepts for his book Everyware. Here is Adam’s description of his book:

“The age of ubiquitous computing is here: a computing without computers, where information processing has diffused into everyday life, and virtually disappeared from view. What does this mean to those of [...]