# Research > 30 posts tagged Research on Timo Arnall's site, 2002 to 2014: Satellite Lamps; Making Visible; Internet Machine; The Immaterials project; Robot Readable… - Page: https://www.elasticspace.com/tag/research/ - 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. - [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. - [The future is Movie OS](https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/04/movie-os/) (2010): Dan Hon on why Apple reaches for real-life objects in interface design, because real objects have affordances that support effective visual storytelling. - [Things](https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/02/things/) (2010): Notes on emerging ‘things’ services in 2010: Thinglink’s exploratory homepage, SVPPLY’s continuous navigation of want, Thingd and Allconsuming. - [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. - [You are here](https://www.elasticspace.com/2006/08/you-are-here/) (2006): A 2006 note on collecting ‘you are here’ marks, ideo locators that map in context, with a point of view. The best example so far is Seoul’s metro, with 3D cross sections of the station. - [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. - [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. - [Spatial memory at Design Engaged 2004](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/11/spatial-memory-design-engaged/) (2004): Notes from my Design Engaged 2004 presentation: the Time that land forgot project with Even Westvang, and the research on marking in urban public space. - [Design Engaged 2004](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/11/design-engaged/) (2004): Notes from Design Engaged 2004 in Amsterdam: Ben Cerveny on metadata accretion, Adam Greenfield on ubicomp ethics, Dan Hill on self-centred design, Matt Webb, Jack Schulze and Matt Jones. - [Art + communication 2004](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/10/art-communication/) (2004): Art + Communication 2004 in Riga, the final event in the Trans-cultural Mapping series. Presenting Timeland with Even Westvang and visiting Piens. - [Design research books](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/08/design-research/) (2004): A short reading list on design research: Norman Potter's two books, Brenda Laurel's Design Research, Miller & Lupton's Design Writing Research, Helfand. - [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. - [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. - [Transcultural mapping workshops](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/05/transcultural-mapping/) (2004): Announcement: participating in the Transcultural mapping workshop in Lofoten in June 2004, and the Loop City workshop at the Outside In symposium. - [Adaptive design books](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/03/adaptive-design/) (2004): A reading list on adaptive and emergent systems: Christopher Alexander, Steven Johnson, Stewart Brand, Jane Jacobs, Rheingold's Smart Mobs, Wolfram. - [Architecture theory books](https://www.elasticspace.com/2004/02/architecture-theory/) (2004): A reading list on architecture theory: Calvino's Invisible Cities, Bachelard, Tschumi, Mitchell's City of Bits, Le Corbusier, Iain Borden. - [Design management books](https://www.elasticspace.com/2003/10/design-management/) (2003): A short reading list on design management and workflow: the Robertsons on requirements, Wiegers on software requirements, Goto & Cotler's Web Redesign. - [Usability books](https://www.elasticspace.com/2003/08/usability/) (2003): A reading list on usability: Norman’s Design of Everyday Things, Nielsen, Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think, Beyer & Holtzblatt on contextual design and more. - [Game design books](https://www.elasticspace.com/2003/04/game-design/) (2003): A reading list on game design: Salen & Zimmerman's Rules of Play, Poole's Trigger Happy, Lucien King's Game On and the practical design manuals of 2003. - [Business and strategy books](https://www.elasticspace.com/2003/01/business-and-strategy/) (2003): A short reading list on design business and strategy: Kelley on IDEO, Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma, Pine & Gilmore on the experience economy. - [Technical books](https://www.elasticspace.com/2002/12/technical-books/) (2002): A reading list on web technology and standards, circa 2002: Zeldman, Meyer on CSS, Håkon Wium Lie, Joe Clark on accessibility, and databases. - [Narrative books](https://www.elasticspace.com/2002/05/narrative/) (2002): A reading list on narrative, interactive storytelling and sequential art: Murray, Laurel, Campbell, McCloud and Eisner. One of a series I put together between 2002 and 2004.