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End of Year Show 2006

Ok so here are the final official details about the end of year show!: Limited Edition You are invited to experience 17 thesis projects from the final graduating class of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea Opening: June 7th 2006 (18:30-23:00) Exhibition: June 8/9/10th 2006 (noon-20:00) Where: Galvanotecnica Bugatti Via Gaspare Bugatti, 7 Zona Tortona Milano 20144… Continue reading End of Year Show 2006

Thesis paper…

I’m finally done writing.. which says nothing about the work i have left to do to prepare for the end of year show…hmm so much to do so little time. You can download my full 52-pages-in-single-spacing report here or read this handy resumé : ) Stint By Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino With the global growing concern around… Continue reading Thesis paper…

RFID events around the world

Stumbled upon this interesting collection of RFID-related conferences this year around the USA and Europe.

One last month

Oh my god I’m graduating in a month!!! So much to do. I have a review on tuesday afternoon to present to my advisors Jan-Christoph Zoels and Heather Martin what i intend to present and develop for the exhibition. Basically I’m thinking of doing the following: -3 Video scenarios – presenting screen shots of an… Continue reading One last month

To prototype or not to prototype

This has been a question that has been on my mind for the past couple of weeks whenever i’ve needed a paper bag to help me breathe (which occurs often enough these days considering i have 4 weeks left to this thesis) or was interviewed by tristam sparks for his thesis prototyping. A mantra of… Continue reading To prototype or not to prototype

Broadcast your podcast

It was about time that this came out, i mean i initially thought that that was how it worked to begin with! Podcasts on the go using to be broadcast within 100 meters with these mini FM transmitters.

Virtual Counterparts of RFIDed Objects

I found a paper written by Kay Romer called Infrasture for Virtual Counterpart of real World Objects which is quite interesting for my thesis. The paper deals with RFID and the relationship between what is tagged and an online presence, which is also what i am trying to achieve by using active RFID tags in… Continue reading Virtual Counterparts of RFIDed Objects

Service design broken down

I found this great servic design conference at Carnegie Mellon, through Jan-Christoph my secondary advisor for my thesis and this just makes me want to grab a ticket to the US and go AWOL for 2 days during our exhibition : P I especially like the breakdown that was given which illustrates perfectly the different… Continue reading Service design broken down

Designing for Interaction

Will my night-stand ever clear up (and why would someone read to sleep is beyond me, reading makes me stay up all night)? A new book from Dan Saffer is coming out soon called Designing for Interaction: Creating smart applications and clever devices,and i can’t wait to read it!

Nokia and music on the go

I like Nokia sometimes, they’re very direct about the R&D work they do and The Culture of Mobility website is a great way for them to mark their territory in terms of interests and research. i especially like some of the articles about music sharing such as this article entitled Trends: permission to play which… Continue reading Nokia and music on the go