The outcome of a 2-weeks workshop with Intel Labs on the topic of Social Photography. The following 2 concepts were developped together with Joshua Noble.

SocialSight enhances your travelling experience by enabling you to share your current view with remote contacts. They get access not only to your view but to everything in it –such as other cameras they can acquire views from– tapping in an Internet of views.

Composight helps you draw on existing photographic resources on the public space and enriching the process of capturing. It also makes sharing easy.

Don’t miss the students projects exhibition opening on Thursday evening!

Extracts from the scribbled 150 pages of my beloved school sketchbook.

Engage in the experience of flying a virtual kite.

Let your senses overcome physical limitations and set your mind free.

Playing with motors and sound with Bill Verplank, the team created a platform for a multi-sensorial experience – designing a visual interface and a haptic motion controller.

HaptiKite lets you enter a peaceful, dreamy world in the sky, where the breeze makes your kite gently sway in a realistic manner.

Feel the wind’s pressure on the handle. Feel the kite line vibrating. Hear the wind blow. Control the movements of the kite itself. Forget you’re in a closed room, standing in front of a wall.

Feel, see, hear. Play. Interact.

Concluding a week long workshop at CIID in June, the multi-disciplinary team –Mette Lyckegaard, Hari Gopalakrishnan and myself– drew on our various sets of skills (we hacked an Arduino board, we created Processing sketches to animate the graphic kite and to translate the user’s movements, we designed a visual interface and we crafted a wooden handle on the lathe) to provide the player with an engaging visual, auditory and tactile game, discovering that the use of haptics enhances most experiences, adding multiple layers of information, sensations or simply playfulness.

From Copenhagen to Avignon in France and back.

By tracking both emergency calls and ambulances, police cars and firetrucks’ GPS, a control center send luminous signals throughout the city in advance of emergency vehicles. The LED lights flash to indicate that an emergency vehicle is approaching, and change colour to signal that normal traffic may resume.
We make the city easier to navigate. We ease your daily journey, whether you’re on foot, on your bicycle or in your car – making it simpler for you to react.

See also Chris Bierbower’s blog on our common project.