Category Archives: Technology

CCD and computational photography

By Timo | March 18th, 2010

A few links on imaging and computation: I’ve concluded that the promise of RFID was eclipsed by another technology out there that’s poised to become more and more disruptive, not only to RFID, but to a host of technologies, and that’s the CCD. from CCD by Joe Gregorio. Via BERG. Cameras might allow a photographer [...]

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Augmentia

By Timo | February 2nd, 2010

Anselm lays out the emerging issues with Augmented Reality (AR). In doing so he relates it to a whole host of known and unknown problems associated with ubiquitous computing, semantic publishing and data platforms. Below are some clippings of bits that seem particularly insightful: It puts own embodiment at risk. And whomsoever can mitigate that [...]

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Pour votre sécurité

By Timo | January 23rd, 2010

17 January.

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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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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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Photos of touch-based interfaces

By Timo | February 25th, 2005

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'.

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Design Engaged 2004

By Timo | November 13th, 2004

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.

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Physical computing workshop

By Timo | September 26th, 2004

Making sense, a physical computing workshop at Atelier Nord took place from 22 – 25 September 2004. Have a look at my images at Flickr.

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Geo-referenced photography

By Timo | July 6th, 2004

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.

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