Category Archives: Mobility

Touch

By Timo | September 4th, 2006

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).

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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.

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Graphic language for touch

By Timo | November 21st, 2005

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).

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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.

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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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Time that land forgot

By Timo | July 30th, 2004

Timo Arnall & Even Westvang.

At the Iceland inside and out workshop Even Westvang and Timo Arnall collaborated on a project looking at ways of contextualising photographs by time and geography. We chose to shift the balance of representation away from location, towards image and time. This is a summary of our ideas and process, with an initial working prototype.

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Loop city workshop

By Timo | June 20th, 2004

Some notes from the 'loop city' workshop at Outside In in Goteborg.

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Mobile outskirts workshop

By Timo | June 20th, 2004

Currently in Lofoten, Norway for the Mobile outskirts workshop.

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Outside In

By Timo | June 15th, 2004

Leaving Göteborg, heading to Norway, after two days of presentations and workshops at Outside In at Röda Sten.

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Mobile social software applications

By Timo | June 6th, 2004

A growing list of social applications that work in a mobile context.

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Spatial annotation projects

By Timo | June 2nd, 2004

A list of spatial annotation projects and platforms. Thanks to physcomp, interactionfield and aware for inspiration.

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Public markup

By Timo | May 17th, 2004

Cable ties on a lamppost, Euston, London

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.

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Creative Crossings workshop

By Timo | April 28th, 2004

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.

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Urban GPS experience

By Timo | April 12th, 2004

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.

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Mess TV: SMS and MMS community television

By Timo | December 18th, 2003

interface showing location based community services

I have just completed the first round of design for an interactive television application for TV Norge in Norway. The show encourages communication through SMS and MMS, while offering content tailored to an interactive environment.

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