This weekend I´m off to Chicago to attend DUX 2007. I will be presenting the paper “Bowl: token based media for children” as part of the “Niche Experiences”-panel. Timo Arnall and I have written this paper based on a project developed for the Touch project by Timo, Jørn Knutsen and myself.
The diploma-work is progressing. Most weeks consist of electronics, programming, building, a little layout, writing and sorting out what I’m actually doing. Today I’ve been working on a front-end mock-up of the webservice side of the project (and been wrestling with google-maps: which are ubiquitous but not very good!)
This is an preliminary prototype of a device that interrupts you while you move through the city. Its the first of a series of devices designed to studie “everyday life as urban infrastructure”. More on this later.
We ( Timo, Jørn and I ) have just come home from Picnic07 in Amsterdam, where we participated on the Mediamatic RFID hacker camp. Together with Anne Helmond we built a photobooth that uses RFID to access the Picnic database. The photobooth takes photos of the Picnic07 participants, when they touch their RFID-tags to a spot iside the booth. The photos get uploaded to Flickr and connections between the people being photographed are made within the Picnic network. The photobooth managed to take 1346 photos during the conference!
Thanks to Anne and the RFID hacker camp crew!