In this film, Wireless in the world 2, simple visualisations of radio ‘spaces’ are overlaid into urban spaces. The film has been made as a follow up to this video experiment and has been specifically designed for exhibition in HABITAR at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. Here is an excerpt from the exhibition [...]
Posted in Events, Interaction design, News, Projects, Visual design | Also tagged dashed line, electromagnetic fields, electrosmog, EMF, exhibition, film, gallery, graphic design, habitar, laboral, motion graphics, Radio, rfid, video, Visualisation, wifi |
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 [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Projects, Research, Visual design | Also tagged animation, design, electromagnetic fields, EMF, infoviz, photography, Radio, Visualisation, 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 [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Research, Visual design | Also tagged design, electromagnetic, EMF, interaction, Radio, radiogenic, ubicomp, Ubiquitous computing, Visualisation, Waves |
An ongoing Touch theme is about making invisible wireless technologies visible, in order to better understand and communicate with and about them (see a Graphic Language for RFID, Dashed lines and Fictional radio spaces). Right now I am sitting near fourteen objects sending and receiving radio signals, from Oyster cards to mobile phones and wireless [...]
Posted in Mobile, Visual design | Also tagged EMF, information visualisation, information visualization, infoviz, Mobile, nfc, Radio, rfid, technology, visual, Visualisation, wifi, Wireless |
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 [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Payments, Product design, Research, Retail, Ticketing, Visual design | Also tagged design, infoviz, nfc, rfid, touch, touch interface, vernacular, visual, Visualisation |
In the same vein as the Bubbles of Radio work from last year, Magnetic Movie is a film that explores visible and audible manifestations of radio fields. The film is by Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor and commissioned by Animate Projects that remains on the forefront of “exploring the relationship between art and [...]
By Timo | 28 September 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Interaction design, Research, Visual design | Also tagged graphic design, graphic language, graphics, hidden lines, information design, infoviz, instructional design, invisibility, touch, visibility, Visualisation |