http://www.elasticspace.com Design & research Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:22:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/09/touch http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/09/touch#comments Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:22:56 +0000 Timo http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/09/touch Early in 2005 I drafted a project together with the Oslo School of Architecture & Design that was designed to look at Near Field Communication (NFC) with an interaction design and user-centred perspective. In December 2005 the project was funded in full by the Research Council of Norway. So since March 2006 we have been setting up the project and conducting preliminary exploratory research work. You can see our ongoing process on the project weblog (and pick up the RSS feed too).]]> http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/09/touch/feed http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/augmented-reality-experiments http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/augmented-reality-experiments#comments Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:59:37 +0000 Timo http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/augmented-reality-experiments A year ago, Even and I played around for an afternoon with ARtoolkit, an open-source application for handling Augmented Reality objects: physical markings that when processed through a video camera can be augmented with 3D digital objects. ]]> http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/augmented-reality-experiments/feed http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/you-are-here http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/you-are-here#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:35:00 +0000 Timo http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/you-are-here I'm collecting images from around the world depicting 'you are here' marks or ideo locators at Flickr. I'm fascinated by this mapping in context, in particular the relationship to local physical space. This is mapping with a a point of view, and maps as direct interface to the world. The best example to date is from Seoul, where 3D cross sections of a metro station are directly related to the point at which you are looking at the map.]]> http://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/you-are-here/feed http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/12/address-book-desk http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/12/address-book-desk#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:36:38 +0000 Timo http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/address-book-desk For the last couple of weeks I have been experimenting with tagging personal space with NFC. This started by embedding RFID tags in my desk, to use it as an information surface for contacts, SMSes and links.]]> http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/12/address-book-desk/feed http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/12/nokia-3220-nfc http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/12/nokia-3220-nfc#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:39:13 +0000 Timo http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/nokia-3220-nfc-shell Thanks to Matt and Nokia I've had a prototype 3220 NFC shell on loan for a few weeks. It's the second Nokia phone to feature an RFID reader and writer for 'Near Field Communication' the technology that I've been getting excited about for mobile services, stickering and touch.]]> http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/12/nokia-3220-nfc/feed http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/graphic-language-for-touch http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/graphic-language-for-touch#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:37:21 +0000 Timo http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/graphic-language-for-touch This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC. It was a presentation and poster at Design Engaged, Berlin on the 11th November 2005. Download the icons (PDF, 721KB, Gif preview).]]> http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/graphic-language-for-touch/feed http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/design-engaged-2005 http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/design-engaged-2005#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:04:56 +0000 Timo http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/83 Here are my raw notes from the three days of excellent conversation, urban exploration and brainstorming of Design Engaged 2005.]]> http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/design-engaged-2005/feed http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/04/embodied-interaction-music http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/04/embodied-interaction-music#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:05:32 +0000 Timo http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/04/embodied-music http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/04/embodied-interaction-music/feed http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/03/tangible-and-social-interaction http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/03/tangible-and-social-interaction#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:40:26 +0000 Timo http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/03/tangible-and-social-interaction http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/03/tangible-and-social-interaction/feed http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/02/graffiti-as-conversation http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/02/graffiti-as-conversation#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:09:15 +0000 Timo http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/02/graffiti-as-conversation I've been photographing layers of conversation in graffiti, and tagging the pictures with "conversation":http://www.flickr.com/photos/timo/tags/conversation/. Prior art for "spatial annotation":http://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/spatial-annotation?]]> http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/02/graffiti-as-conversation/feed