# Projects > Elasticspace archive of 24 projects by Timo Arnall, 2001 to 2014, with images and write-ups. - Page: https://www.elasticspace.com/project/ - Updated: 2026-10-13 - Site map for agents: https://www.elasticspace.com/llms.txt --- - [Satellite Lamps](https://www.elasticspace.com/2014/08/satellite-lamps/) (2014): Lamps with Einar Sneve Martinussen and Jørn Knutsen that reveal the uncertainty and materiality of GPS by sampling signal accuracy. - [Making Visible](https://www.elasticspace.com/2014/06/making-visible/) (2014): My PhD thesis 'Making Visible', four peer-reviewed articles on interaction design as a cultural, material and mediational practice. Download as PDF or ePub. - [Internet Machine](https://www.elasticspace.com/2014/05/internet-machine/) (2014): A multi-screen film inside one of the world's largest data centres, run by Telefónica in Alcalá, Spain. The infrastructure of 'the cloud'. - [The Immaterials project](https://www.elasticspace.com/2013/09/the-immaterials-project/) (2013): An overview of the Immaterials project, five years of work on visualising the invisible infrastructures of interaction: RFID, WiFi, GPS and machine vision. - [No to NoUI](https://www.elasticspace.com/2013/03/no-to-no-ui/) (2013): A critique of 'invisible design' and the NoUI movement: invisibility propagates the myth of immateriality, ignores interface culture and takes agency away from users and designers. - [Robot Readable World](https://www.elasticspace.com/2012/02/robot-readable-world/) (2012): A short film pulled together from computer vision research footage: a glimpse of the world as cameras and algorithms register it. - [A phone to save us from our screens?](https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/10/a-phone-to-save-us-from-our-screens/) (2010): Microsoft's 2010 Windows Phone 7 launch ads take an anti-screen position. Without tangible interaction, can tiles pull attention out of glass? - [Touch](https://www.elasticspace.com/2006/09/touch/) (2006): 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. - [Augmented reality experiments](https://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/augmented-reality-experiments/) (2006): An afternoon with Even Westvang and ARtoolkit, drafting augmented reality markers by hand and confusing the tracker by drawing them in perspective. - [The address book desk](https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/12/address-book-desk/) (2005): An early Touch-project experiment: a grid of RFID tags under a desk with post-it notes on top, using the phone to call or SMS by touch. - [Nokia 3220 with NFC](https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/12/nokia-3220-nfc/) (2005): First impressions of the prototype Nokia 3220 NFC shell in late 2005: reading and writing RFID tags, interaction details and suggested improvements. - [Graphic language for touch](https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/11/graphic-language-for-touch/) (2005): Graphic design for near-field interaction at Design Engaged 2005, an early attempt at a visual language for the touch-point where phone meets tag. - [Embodied interaction in music](https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/04/embodied-interaction-music/) (2005): A set of sketches from Easter 2005 on navigating music on portable devices: predictive text input, squeeze-and-shake movement, audio scrubbing and gestures like covering an ear. - [Tangible and social interaction](https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/03/tangible-and-social-interaction/) (2005): Notes from two January 2005 AHO lectures on tangible and social interaction: Dourish on the history of HCI, examples from the Nintendo DS. - [Sound objects](https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/02/sound-objects/) (2005): Notes from Mikael Fernström's 2005 AHO lecture on sound objects in interaction design, sound as our fastest sense and the underuse of auditory interfaces. - [Time that land forgot](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/timeland/) (2004): Timo Arnall and Even Westvang, 2004, from the Iceland inside-and-out workshop: contextualising photographs by time and geography. - [Geo-referenced photography](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/geo-referenced-photography/) (2004): A 2004 reference list of papers, projects and tools for geo-referencing photographs by combining camera timestamps with GPS tracklogs. - [Social filtering for online forums](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/social-filtering/) (2004): On Yayhooray's 2004 relaunch using buddy-list as content filter, and a history of signal-to-noise filtering in online forums from Dreamless on. - [Mobile social software applications](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/mobile-social-software/) (2004): A 2004 reference list of mobile social software: Jabberwocky, Fluidtime, Dodgeball, Plazes, Mamjam, the first wave of location-aware services before smartphones. - [Spatial annotation projects](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/spatial-annotation/) (2004): A 2004 reference list of spatial annotation projects: Murmure, Yellow Arrow, Grafedia, Urban Tapestries and dozens of others from the locative-media field. - [Urban GPS experience](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/04/urban-gps/) (2004): Field notes on the Garmin GPS Map 60c in Oslo and London: three months of trying to record clean GPS tracks to geo-locate photography, from the pavement and public transport. - [Design for television](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/03/design-for-television/) (2004): Notes on designing interactive television interfaces in 2004: typography at 18 pixels, drop-shadows to stop colour bleed, safe areas on modern widescreen TVs. - [Mess TV: SMS and MMS community television](https://www.elasticspace.com/2003/12/mess-tv/) (2003): A 2003 case study on rebranding and interaction-design work for Mess TV. TV Norge's nightly SMS and MMS community television programme. - [Mobile interaction design case study](https://www.elasticspace.com/2001/06/mobile-interaction-design-case-study/) (2001): A 2001 case study for Pollen Mobile / Mamjam: SMS-driven location-based social entertainment for people in the same venue.