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.
On the 12th January 2005 I gave two lectures here in Oslo on the theme of tangible and social interaction. The presentation is a 1.9mb pdf, and my notes are below. I’m posting this in response to Matt Jones’ and Chris Heathcote’s presentation at ETech (notes), which covers a lot of the same ground.
Mikael Fernstr�m gave a lecture at AHO on sound objects this week. His work at IDC focuses on sound in ubiquitous computing, an area that is relatively unexplored in interaction design.
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’.
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.
Making sense, a physical computing workshop at Atelier Nord took place from 22 – 25 September 2004. Have a look at my images at Flickr.
Leaving Göteborg, heading to Norway, after two days of presentations and workshops at Outside In at Röda Sten.
This research looks at the marking of public space by investigating the physical annotation of the city: stickering, graffiti and billboards. It attempts to find patterns in this marking practice by looking at visibility, techniques, process, location, content and audience. It proposes ways in which this marking can be used as a layer between the physical city, and digital spatial annotation.
Creative Crossings was organised by m-cult, banff centre and arts council england to bring together practitioners from Britain, Canada and Finland to discuss participatory and creative applications for the development of mobile/located and cross-platform media. It was a research based event looking at practice in contemporary media arts.
Using a GPS receiver in dense urban areas requires constant attention to avoid losing satellite signals. My photography is suffering because I am constantly trying to get satellites instead of looking.
