# Touch

> A research project at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design on what designers should do with NFC, funded by the Research Council of Norway, running since March 2006.

- Page: https://www.elasticspace.com/2006/09/touch/
- Author: Timo Arnall (https://www.elasticspace.com/)
- Section: Projects (https://www.elasticspace.com/project/)
- Published: 2006-09-04
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- Tags: AHO, Mobility, NFC, PhD, Research, RFID, Technology, Touch Project, Ubicomp
- Site map for agents: https://www.elasticspace.com/llms.txt

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![NFC public space](https://www.elasticspace.com/images/touch/68654580_c81c8ae184.jpg)

*NFC public space*

Touch a phone to a tag, the tag answers, something happens. A phone call, an SMS, a URL. [Near Field Communication](http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1260978,00.html) is the radio inside an Oyster card, brought into a handset that can also write to tags as well as read them.

*Touch* is a research project on what designers should do with this, run with the [Oslo School of Architecture and Design](http://www.aho.no/) and the [Research Council of Norway](http://www.forskningsradet.no). We have been [setting it up](https://nearfieldarchive.org/) since March 2006. The ongoing process lives on the [project weblog](https://nearfieldarchive.org/) ([RSS](http://feeds.feedburner.com/nearfield)).