Pervasive Computing - This Project titled ‘Homescapes’ is an exploration of the social and cultural siting of technology in the domestic environment of tomorrow. Infaura is a piece of networked furniture that creates an open, flexible system of personalised information that grows with daily routines and activities, to generate a context-sensitive meta-information source. The project also explores the convergence between traditional and emerging media, for example, the relationship between books, packaging, ticketing, animation and web content. Homescapes and Infaura aim to make more meaningful, context sensitive experiences for users in a world where experiences at physical interfaces (with devices and things) is blurred with experiences at digital interfaces (the Internet, mobile interfaces etc).
Pervasive Computing - Table sensing and responding to Tagged product.
Wearable computing M-Bracelet - The M-Bracelet explored the gap between the ‘Overt technological’ i.e. the Palm Pilot and the ‘Jewellery like’ fashion accessory. The intention was to design for a teenage market that wanted new forms of wearable technology to enable them to connect with their social networks. The first version of the M-Bracelet was exhibited at the annual wearable computing conference in America. The M-Bracelet concept was a demonstrated on CNN Television as one of the year’s attractions at the conference.
Science Museum Challenge of Materials Gallery - The Science Museum (London) commissioned this piece of furniture to demonstrate a new material process. The process involved in producing the ‘Mobius’ bench is a compression technique that allows wood to be bent into tight compound curves. This is only possible with this new material process, as traditional bending methods with steam only allow single bends with larger radiuses. The bench was designed in the UK and built by Compwood Machines in Denmark. The cellular images illustrate the timber section before and after the compression process has taken place, which allow the timber to be moulded into the form of the ‘Mobius’ bench.
Spatial Internet - This project 'Spatial Internet' explored the advances in mobile telephone technologies to incorporate global positioning systems and electronic compasses. ‘Spaceweb’ uses GPS co-ordinates and electronic compass bearing to address every point on the planet with a unique URL to enable physical spaces to have embedded web content with in them. The project specifically explores possible applications of this technology beyond the prevailing ‘where is’ mentality of current mobile applications. The illustration shows a building with a particular geo-spatial location.
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