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).
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’.
We are all sat around a table in Amsterdam, at Design Engaged 2004. There are lots of photos going up to Flickr, and here are my notes.
Making sense, a physical computing workshop at Atelier Nord took place from 22 – 25 September 2004. Have a look at my images at Flickr.
In Hofn, Iceland we are working on tools for geographic and time-referenced photography. This is our research into platforms and tools for connecting photographic and geographic data.
Perhaps the first online forum to use social network filtering went online yesterday.
Timo Arnall is a designer working with interactive products and media. Timo leads an international research project on mobile technology, collaborates on interaction design work and lectures in design, physical computing and design methodology. More...
