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Transforming everyday objects into game controllers
Control Freaks, the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Haiyan Zhang, “explores new gaming experiences that fold the world into play by using existing situations and environments as game playing moments.” “Control Freaks are devices that attach to everyday objects, turning them…
MULE: reclaiming the city through pervasive play
Designing meaningful coincidences
Occasional Coincidences is the title of the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Nicholas Zambetti. It looks at how systems that recognize and present meaningful coincidences can be designed. A few days ago, Régine Debatty summarised the project on we-make-money-not-art: “In the…
Discover and experience location-based services
Enabling democracy through communications technology
Morphing and transforming objects as new interfaces
Patchwerk, a social tool to analyse popularity and status in the digital world
Thimble, a location-based social network for lending and renting using reputation as currency
Pooptopia, a pet waste removal urban game
Pooptopia, the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Aram Saroyan Armstrong, is a pet waste removal service/game that explores the interplay of service design and entertainment. A few days ago Régine Debatty summarised Pooptopia on her own blog we-make-money-not-art as follows: “Pooptopia…
uni.me, a new mobile communication service centred on people’s availability
What if a mobile phone could provide easily glanceable information of people’s availability? To answer that question, Ana Camila Pinho Amorim developed uni.me, a new mobile communication service and Ana’s graduation project at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. uni.me supports us…
SAUMA – Design as cultural interface
FORERA, a European Foresight agency
Eldy, an operating system for the elderly
UK Design Council launches Design Factfinder to demonstrate the value of design for business
Banks creating a better branch experience
Experience things before they exist [The Economist]
Technology leaves teens speechless [USA Today]
ICT trends are changing how we teach and learn
Computers and technology are blurring the line between what we think of as traditional education – that is, going to school and sitting in classrooms; and what we think of as homework – that is, reading textbooks and studying for…
International Herald Tribune to carry stories written by members of the public
The International Herald Tribune, the global newspaper owned by the New York Times, is to carry stories written by members of the public, writes The Guardian. A deal with a South Korean news website, OhmyNews International, could see so-called “citizen…