This is a write-up of my diploma project in interaction design from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The project is entitled ‘Adventures in Urban Computing’ and this weblog post contains a brief project description and a pdf of the diploma report. This diploma project is an expedition into urban computing, an emerging multi-disciplinary [...]
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Unge Talenter 2008
The Bowl/Skål project is exhibited at the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture (DogA) in Oslo for the next month. Bowl are part of the Unge Talenter 2008 (Young Talent 2008) exhibition that runs until 27 April 2008. As part of my work on Touch I also made new electronic insides for Sara Johansson’s toydog [...]
Daily research
I´ve just been out taking scenario-photos of the final Interruptor (camera) prototype. The battery-life is bad and its so shiny that its difficult to take pictures of. Apart from this its an ok experience prototype. Its main function in the diploma is as concept illustration.
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Interruptive camera
I´m building an “Interruptive camera” as a descriptive device. It´s just a dummy: a hacked phone inside a neat wooden shell. I hope it will help with describing some aspects of the concepts. It´s also a nice task to have lying around now that I have to write all day.
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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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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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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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Musikkball on P2 Transit
Today (10.05.07) I talked about the Music-ball-project (among other things) on the NRK P2-program Transit. (The program can be heard by clicking the 10.05.07-link.)
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