Tangible Interaction Projects

Inspiration lecture with Einar and Timo, showcasing the following projects and websites:

• U-city, Korea
• Blinkenlights, Berlin
• Open City, by Graffiti Research Lab
• LED Throwies, also by GRL
• Yellow arrow
• Biomapping
• Mogi Mogi, Japan
• Day of the Figurines by Blast Theory
• AIR (Area’s Immediate Readings)
• Blogging pigeons by Beatriz de Costa
• Windowzoo
• Flash mobs / Eat brains
• Streetwars
• Etsy
• Thinglink
• Intructables
• Flocks by Christien Meindertsma
• milkproject.net
• With Hidden Numbers by Meghan Trainor
• RFID Snakes and Ladders
• Symbolic table
• Sharer by Vinay Venkatraman
• Everything is a Toy (ET)
• RFID Mon Amour
• Arithmetic Garden, by Masahiko and Takashi
• YourDay, RFID visitor tracking
• Sherelog, Suica visualization

Especially love the GRL-stuff, first heard about projection bombing through Evan Roth’s (fi5e) Graffiti Analysis. His thesis on the project is available here (PDF).

On the note of things like flash mobs and streetwars, see also Improv Everywhere for hilarious uses of urban space.