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Olars: physical toy inspired by karl sims evolved creatures

By Timo | June 25th, 2010
A lovely piece of work by Lars M. Vedeler and Ola Vågsholm from the Tangible Interactions course at The Oslo School of Architecture & Design: Olars is an electronic interactive toy inspired by Karl Sims’ evolved virtual creatures. Having thousands of varieties in movement and behaviour by attaching different geometrical limbs, modifying the angle of [...]
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Negotiating futures. Design fiction

By Timo | April 6th, 2010
Swiss Design Network Conference 2010: Designers see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, [...]
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3D secret – hidden pictures

By Timo | February 27th, 2010
Beautiful new exploratory game for the Nintendo DS, that uses the front-facing camera and face tracking to calculate a perspective that renders like a window on a new world. DSi「立体かくし絵　アッタコレダ. Via BERG
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Augmentia

By Timo | February 2nd, 2010
Anselm lays out the emerging issues with Augmented Reality (AR). In doing so he relates it to a whole host of known and unknown problems associated with ubiquitous computing, semantic publishing and data platforms. Below are some clippings of bits that seem particularly insightful: It puts own embodiment at risk. And whomsoever can mitigate that [...]
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Telling stories with interfaces

By Timo | January 25th, 2010
“But where does it go from here? Is this really just a micro-genre best suited to ads for internet companies? Or does the fact that we spend so much time on this stage our selves mean that it really can be the venue for more (and more kinds of) storytelling? via Telling stories with interfaces [...]
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Augmented reality experiments

By Timo | August 29th, 2006
AR Teapot 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.
Also posted in Architecture, Graphic design, Information design, Play, Research, Ubicomp | 2 Comments

The address book desk

By Timo | December 16th, 2005
Address book desk, with post-it/stickies on the surface 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.
Also posted in Project, Research, Ubicomp | 18 Comments

Nokia 3220 with NFC

By Timo | December 6th, 2005
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.
Also posted in Mobility, Research, Ubicomp, Usability | 19 Comments

Graphic language for touch

By Timo | November 21st, 2005
A graphic language for touch: interacting with RFID and NFC through the mobile phone. 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).
Also posted in Graphic design, Information design, Mobility, Place, Project, Ubicomp, Usability | 18 Comments

Design Engaged 2005

By Timo | November 20th, 2005
Design Engaged 2005 Here are my raw notes from the three days of excellent conversation, urban exploration and brainstorming of Design Engaged 2005.
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Embodied interaction in music

By Timo | April 28th, 2005
!/images/embodied_music_cover.jpg(read more)!:http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/04/embodied-interaction-music Over Easter I sketched out some ideas for navigating music on a portable player. I was frustrated with the iPod clickwheel, thinking about reducing the reliance on visual interfaces and how navigating music has a lot to do with language. I wanted to explore richer interfaces that combine movement, language and vision.
Also posted in Media, Mobility, Research, Sound, Usability | 9 Comments

Tangible and social interaction

By Timo | March 18th, 2005
!http://www.elasticspace.com/images/pictochat.jpg(read more)!:http://www.elasticspace.com/2005/03/tangible-and-social-interaction On the 12th January 2005 I gave two lectures here in Oslo on the theme of tangible and social interaction. The "presentation":http://www.elasticspace.com/presentations/tangible_social_jan05.pdf is a 1.9mb pdf, and my notes are below. I'm posting this in response to "Matt Jones'":http://blackbeltjones.typepad.com/work/ and "Chris Heathcote's":http://www.anti-mega.com/antimega/ "presentation":http://www.anti-mega.com/antimega/archives/001195.html at ETech ("notes":http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03/tangible_comput.html), which covers a lot of the same ground.
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Sound objects

By Timo | February 25th, 2005
"Mikael Fernstrm":http://www.idc.ul.ie/mikael/ gave a lecture at "AHO":http://www.aho.no/ on sound objects this week. His work at "IDC":http://www.idc.ul.ie/ focuses on sound in ubiquitous computing, an area that is relatively unexplored in interaction design.
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Photos of touch-based interfaces

By Timo | February 25th, 2005
Bus ticketing interface In the way that Victor Lombardi is collecting images of cardreaders, I am beginning to collect images of touch-based interfaces like the Oyster card and other 'touchable' interfaces on public transport. If you want to contribute, tag your photos with 'touchinterface'.
Also posted in Photography, Technology, Ubicomp | 1 Comment

Spatial memory at Design Engaged 2004

By Timo | November 15th, 2004
Here is my presentation [pdf] and presentation notes from Design Engaged 2004. Lots of pretty pictures of stickers, tags, flyposting and such. I will chip in with Dan, Adam, Matt, Molly and Fabio to say that this has been the conference highlight of the year.
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