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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Bowl
“Bowl” is a project looking on containers in the home as possible touchpoints for NFC-technology. The project investigates how specific objects and behaviors in the home can be utilized as interfaces for digital technology. It focuses on bowls, both as containers and as devices for sharing and presenting. To be able to look into the [...]
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ID-12
ID-12 RFID-readers as modules for prototyping and testing. We´ve also built simple modules with only a Gnd/+5V/Data-plug for connecting to the microcontrollers.
The Future of Everyday Life
1950: The Everyday Life of the Future 2010: The Future of Everyday Life Not the opportunities of the technology, but the opportunities of the everyday … Research and Creativity workshop at AHO 21.03.07. PDF here: The Future of Everyday Life
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The Internet of Things at Home
We have created a service that connects the Home to a layer of digital information through our use of things and objects. We have focused on the Special Things; the extra nice objects that have an elevated significance in our everyday life. We have tracked these Things backwards to when they were bought and when [...]
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