Category Archives: Research

The future is Movie OS

By Timo | April 18th, 2010

Still from the film xXx from Mark Coleran’s portfolio. The idea that Apple is grasping at real-life objects because they support effective visual storytelling is very interesting: In Movie OS, visual storytelling is used to make the system’s important, critical reaction to a user’s action abundantly clear. In Movie OS, you know if you’re logging into [...]

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The Films of Charles & Ray Eames

By Timo | March 1st, 2010

“While Charles & Ray were frequently contracted by corporations like Polaroid, Westinghouse, and IBM, they never made films on demand. Nearly all their films represent a symbiotic relationship between the artist and the client, and they only made films when there was genuine interest. Witness Westinghouse ABC (1965), which is essentially a montage of the [...]

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Things

By Timo | February 2nd, 2010

Things I’ve noticed today: Lovely new exploratory homepage at Thinglink. There is clearly a very well curated user-base at SVPPLY creating a continuous navigation of want. Related: Social networks for things, Thingd, Allconsuming.

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“VOLUME 5a May 2009 Part one of Volume 5 explores the connections between the moving framed image and…”

By Timo | September 22nd, 2009

“

VOLUME 5a
May 2009
Part one of Volume 5 explores the connections between the moving framed image and geography, offering author-created videos and movie clips to supplement textual materials.

VOLUME 5b
May 2009
Part two of Volume 5 engages a range of media from televisual and cinematic spaces to altporn’s Suicide Girls to the use of place in transnational news..

”

- Aether: The Journal of Media Geography Upcoming Issues

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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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Augmented reality experiments

By Timo | August 29th, 2006

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, Interaction design, Play, Ubicomp | 2 Comments

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.

Also posted in Graphic design, Information design, Mapping, Place, Travel | 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.

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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.

Also posted in Interaction design, Mobility, Ubicomp, Usability | 19 Comments

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 Interaction design, Media, Mobility, 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 Fernstr�m":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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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.