Posts Tagged ‘physical’

What the Hubbub Is

In Articles on 28 October 2009 tagged design, games, Hubbub, pervasive games, physical, play, public space, social, urban games with Comments Off

There’s some movement over at the website for my new venture. I mentioned Hubbub before: it is a design studio I am setting up for physical, social games that are played in public places. We hope to address social issues and the like using these games. Recently… I’ve adjusted the temporary site to fit with [...]

Buildings and Brains at the Nijmegen Design Platform (NOP)

In Talks on 20 July 2009 tagged behavior, cities, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, design, events, game design, interaction design, lectures, LUX, Nijmeegs Ontwerp Platform, Nijmegen Design Platform, nop, perception, pervasive games, physical, play, procedural rhetoric, social, Talks, urban, urban games with 1 comment

It’s been a few weeks since I presented at the Nijmegen Design Platform (NOP), but I thought it would still be useful to post a summary of what I talked about here. Update: it took me a while, but the slides that accompanied this talk are now up at SlideShare. A little context: The NOP [...]

This Pervasive Games Workshop I Ran at This Conference

In Articles on 10 July 2009 tagged conferences, FoG09, game design, NLGD Festival of Games 2009, pervasive games, physical, play, playtesting, prototyping, social, tinkering, workshops with 2 comments

A few things I got people to do at this year’s NLGD Festival of Games: Fight each other with paper swords… …and run around with lunch-boxes on their heads.1 This was all part of a workshop I ran, titled ‘Playful Tinkering’. The mysterious Mink ette — who amongst many things is a designer at Six [...]

Storyboarding Multi-Touch Interactions

In Articles on 19 December 2007 tagged comics, computing, drawing, gated communities, gestural, interaction design, interfaces, InUse, IxD, multi-touch, pervasive, physical, physical computing, portfolio, sketching, social, social capital, storyboarding, tangible, ubiquitous, work with 5 comments

I think it was around half a year ago that I wrote “UX designers should get into everyware”. Back then I did not expect to be part of a ubicomp project anytime soon. But here I am now, writing about work I did in the area of multi-touch interfaces. Background The people at InUse (Sweden’s [...]

Tangible — First of Five IA Summit 2007 Themes

In Articles on 20 April 2007 tagged architecture, conferences, Frog Design, IA, IA Summit 2007, industrial design, information architecture, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Michele Tepper, physical, REX, tangible, themes with 5 comments

I’ll be posting a top 5 of the themes I noticed during the past 2007 IA Summit in Las Vegas. It’s a little late maybe, but hopefully still offers some value. Here are the 5 themes. My thoughts on the first one (tangible) are below the list: Tangible (this post) Social Web of data Strategy [...]

Albert Heijn RFID Epiphany

In Articles on 20 March 2007 tagged Albert Heijn, everyware, future, physical, RFID, shopping, tangible, ubicomp with 8 comments

I was standing in line at the local Albert Heijn1 the other day and had a futurist’s ‘epiphany’. I had three items in my basket. The couple in front of me had a shopping cart full of stuff. I had an empty stomach and was tired from a long day’s work. They were taking their [...]