I´m in the final phase of my diploma and had the last “mycity” drawing/mapping workshop today. We mapped out nodes, routes, zones, gems, shadows, dragons and rainbows… And located the photos and notes from the interruptive notebooks. Thanks to Una, Ingeborg and Jørn.
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“Bowl: tokene based media for children” at DUX 2007
I have just returned from DUX 2007 where I presented the paper “Bowl: token based media for children” written by Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and myself. The DUX conference was an interesting context for presenting this project and I got nice feedback and had inspiring discussions. Here´s a short presentation of the project, the paper [...]
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Up and away
With a little help from Jørn I managed to finish the first three working probes before I left for DUX. It´s three interruptive notebooks. You turn it on when you go outdoors, put it in your pocket and it will interrupt you at random intervals. When the notebooks calls for your attention (by vibrating) you [...]
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Building probes
Spending a day in the wood workshop is always quite refreshing. The first batch of proper probes is almost done and will be in action while I´m at DUX.
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DUX 2007
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.
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As the crow flies
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!)
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Interrupter 1.0
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.
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Picnic 07 / Mediamtic RFID hackers camp
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 [...]
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“Urban Computing and the Temple of Doom”
Friday 14.09.07 I was one of the speakers at the first day of the Urban Interface conference in Oslo . It was a quite interesting event and a good opportunity to present my diploma-thoughts to a diverse audience. I presented my views on urban computing and urban gaming, and gave a slight preview of my [...]
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Urban Interfaces | Oslo
I will be talking on the Urban Interfaces conference in Oslo the 14th of September. I will be talking about previous work with urban gaming (“The Institute of PanGalactic Studies“) and about current work with my Master thesis (“Adventures in Urban Computing”).
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