pervasive computing

Inner Lives, Outer Expressions – An Exploration of Object Animism

Nokia Research recently gave me a small grant to conduct a research project in Summer, 2011. Here’s the basic description:

This project explores the design opportunities in objects that seem to have inner lives through their expressive behavior.

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Tags | affordance, design, interaction design, object, object animism, pervasive computing, tangible interaction, ubiquitous computing

The New Ecology of Things Publication

The Media Design Program’s new transmedia publication, The New Ecology of Things, is complete. The book, website, poster and mobile phone content address the design and educational issues related to ubiquitous computing and is an ecology of essays, glossary, forum, interactive works, video, and a short story by Bruce Sterling. You can order the book here: The New Ecology of Things (NET).

Tags | book, mdp, net lab, new ecology of things, pervasive computing, transmedia, ubiquitous computing