I’ve always been fascinated by graveyards and tombs. Of course, it seems a little strange but I think that interaction is everywhere, even there. Today while on the bus, I was thinking about the dialogue in this kind of places. It’s a very peculiar interaction but we all know that there is communication between us and the tombs, the people we miss. The interesting thing is that this dialogue is basically silent. The question I...

The concept I’m working on for this week is an interactive music mailbox. As I wrote in the previous post, we were asked to think about young people and collaborative production of music. I think that a in the whole process of composition, that is a very cumulative one, it is very important to create a sort of communication channel between the artist and his\the audience. With audience I mean not only his fans but, hopefully,...

New week, new project. I’m now working on the theme of social actability that is about social arenas and communities. Our assignment is about young people and collaborative music production: we have to find some good ideas to support this kind of activities. It’s an individual project, so I’m working alone!!!! more to come…

In-drive Pliability A non-visual entertainment system for the car (download pdf) Concept by Pietro Desiato, Fredrik Johnsson, Daniel Karlsson Abstract Pliability is about shaping all kinds of information in order to give the user the sense of present and direct interaction. It is basically related to the visualization of data. We thought that this use-quality could be interesting for a entertainment system in a car where the user is...

My first assignment during the course I’m attending at K3 has been this online course guide. It was asked to each group (3 persons) to think about new way of visualizing and searching databases. I worked on this concept with Fredrik Johnsson and Daniel Karlsson. The concept is basically based on these assumptions: - scenarios: the first thing we did was to draw some scenarios and identify the personas we were going to work with. When...