Tag: interactive design

The word “isolation” comes from insula (lt.) [island] We’re all stuck in small spaces, these days, surrounded by restrictions that condemn us to an unwanted condition of insularity. The current situation led us all to redefine the interactions between us...

Visitors to the Sochi Winter Olympic Games are being given the opportunity to create giant self-portraits in a pavilion created by designer and architect Asif Khan and commissioned by Russian telecoms company MegaFon. The pavilion is situated at the entrance...

inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way. inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for  instance moving objects on the table’s...

One of the best things about visiting new places is getting in on the secret spots where locals love to hang. Listen Here is a service that connects tourists with locals, allowing them to listen to live audio transmitted by...

Feel Me is a project by Marco Triverio that explores the gap between synchronous and asynchronous communication using our mobile device in attempt to “connect differently” and enrich digital communications. Whereas we draw lines between phone conversations and sms messages, Feel Me...

Still Life by Scott Garner is an interactive wall piece that takes traditional still life painting and ads a motion-sensitive frame on a rotating mount. Years ago I had the idea of a still life painting that wasn’t so still, but...

Puppet Parade is an interactive installation by Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson of Design I/O that allows children to use their arms to puppeteer larger than life creatures projected on the wall in front of them. This dual interactive setup allows children...

These two installations, Voice Array and Tape Recorder, were made by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Both installations are part of a larger exhibition about his interactive recorders, which happens to be his first solo exhibition in Australia. The two...

The ancient Japanese paper-folding art form, known as origami, is fused with modern sensory technology in this interactive light installation called Jelly Swarm. Vancouver-based Tangible Interaction has collaborated with origami expert Joseph Wu to conceive and produce the interactive display that...

Revealing the Facebook Social Graph in Physical Reality Connections for Facebook developed by Obscura Digital was a physical installation demonstrated during F8, Facebook‘s developer’s conference. Conference attendees were identified through their RFID-enabled event badge, so the projected visualization could access their Facebook profiles. The...