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04.10.10getting personalHere is a video with a more personal and ambient view on our trip to the MediaLab and New York. We still work on all the interview and demo footage so please still be patient with us. The video is quite long and tries to capture the athmosphere and mood of the conference and the journey. Enjoy.
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01.29.10Sneaking in the Studios / Watching the WebBefore we will put up our own interview material from the studio workshops, we will show you the video by the ingenious Jay Silver. Jay is a wonderful person, giving the fun and joy on doing things so much priority, by simultaneously being serious with what he does. However, he is the man behind twinkle, one of the best project I´ve seen through out TEI°10 and created the Drawdio. While TEI°10 he was organising the studio section ´longside with Amon Millner. As a lot of you allready know there is the twitter feed right to this article. It´s the official TEI°10 ...
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01.29.10Conducting Fabrics by Sarah KettleySarah Kettley presented woolen garments that are conductive and by that can be used as sensors. I am very interested in the now upcoming approaches of mixing up technology and fashion. There allready had been several trys to bring circuits into a flexible or maybe less rigid shape. For example the e-motion project of the University of the Arts Berlin, which was a collaboration between the department of fashion design and the Fraunhofer Institute for micro integration. In the project the students explored the possibilities of textile computing using bendable sensors and circuits, new innovative textiles or print colours and ...
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01.27.10Live streamFor all of you who are not able to attend the conference, the organisers unlocked the live stream from the conference. Thanks to this people from the outside can follow the talks via the web. So now you can see how it looks from a confernce attendees point of view. to get the vice versa impression this picture might help you.
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01.26.10Flexi Knobs by Michael Hlatky and Kristian GohlkeWe started to cover the demo session with the Flexi-Knob project from the AudioCluster associated to the University of Applied Sciences Bremen in Germany. The approach behind this project is to create a quick change between normally assigned Midi Channels on a GUI by using multiple mouse cursors. On the first site it seems quite strange, having more than one mousecursor floating over the graphical interface but in this case it totally makes sense. The single cursors are displayed not as arrows, but as slightly rotating circles in the same colour of the physical controlling devices. The shown example was ...
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01.26.10CoBots by Christian CerritoChristian Cerrito is experimenting with robots that react on their surrounding environment. So far this is nothing special, but what´s new is that they create real world output. His small robotsdraw lines. One of his robot setup reacts on shadows, so when there is a person standing in the light, the robot starts to move along the shadow outline retracing it. Though it is just an exploration paper, it is possible to imagine a broader use of it, for example making long term art pieces using light and passers-by. Another bot of him reacts on sound and escapes the noise ...
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01.26.10TEI°10 reportingComing back shortly to the keynote by John Frazer (his talk showed very close his work and development of his "intelligent physical modeling systems" and the field of "tangible thinking", all in all what we call today "tangible user interaction"), we want to catch up an idea that he mentioned talking about human and numeric qualities in operation methods. He pointed out the sense of difference between creative and intelligent work of the side of humans and repeating, mass-producing and, well, let´s say non-intelligent work on the side of computers. Thus we are definetly no computers, we want to mention at ...
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01.25.10Jamming Gear by So KannoA playful an physical way of composing and modifying music patterns was shown by So Kanno from IAMAS Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group. Its main components are gear-wheels that can be stuck on a soundmaking playback device. Driven by a central motor and control device several of these gear-wheel items can be combined. Very simply one turn of the wheel represents one loop of its sound. Absorbing is the idea of modifying the looptime by the number of cogs and with it the posibility of free exploring feasible combination of sounds and melodies. What was interesting is that changing sounds and regulating ...
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01.25.10DisplayObjects presented by roel vertegaalWow. This was a very broad and challenging talk. Roel Vertegaal was presenting the paper by him and Eric Akaoka , Tim Ginn dealing with the problem of having no possibilty of adding a fully working display to styroform (or any other material) mock ups. The way he presented was very nice. He gave a broad overview on design techniques to deal with this lack of interactive displays: from Arduino over OLED technologies to the first non-interactive iPod modell. It´s refreshing to hear some one talking about interactivity in design processes out of a designers point of view. So his approach ...
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01.25.10spatial sketch by karl d. d. willisAfter the 30 seconds madness session and the very inspiring keynote of john frazer the first paper presentation was taking place. Karl D.D. Wills from the japanese interface design group was presenting his approach on sketching threedimensionally using a two piece nintendo wiimote array to locate a LED attached to a penlike device. In his pesentation he explained the technical background and uses the photographs by Gijon Mili capturing picasso drawing in the air with a torch. Another project he refferd to was the sketching furniture project by front design and other a bit older explorations on making digital 3D ...
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01.24.10America !!!So here we are: America, Eastcoast, Boston-Cambridge. We had a nice and relaxed flight and built up our base camp in a hostel not far from the MediaLab and had allready enough time to stroll through the streets of Boston and get some slight impression on how America looks, sounds, feels and smells like. Now we are at the new and neat part of the MediaLab, opened two weeks ago to test our equipment and get in touch with the organisers. Behind us, the first demo-objects get unpacked and set up for first testings. It´s good to be here now, ...
