Category Archives: Research

Touch

4 September 2006 – 11:22

NFC public space

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).

By Timo | Also posted in Mobility, Project, Technology, Ubicomp | Comments (0)

Augmented reality experiments

29 August 2006 – 12:59

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.

By Timo | Also posted in Architecture, Graphic design, Information design, Interaction design, Play, Ubicomp | Comments (2)

You are here

4 August 2006 – 9:35

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.

By Timo | Also posted in Graphic design, Information design, Mapping, Place, Travel | Comments (1)