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Slabs, Sofducts and Bespoke Objects
An Emerging Landscape in The New Ecology of Things An updated, illustrated, and edited version of this post was published in the JohnnyHolland.org magazine about Interaction Design....
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Inner Lives, Outer Expressions – An Exploration of Object Animism
Nokia Research recently gave me a small grant to conduct a research project in Summer, 2011. Here’s the basic description: This project explores the design opportunities in objects that seem to have...
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A+D Museum Installation
Recently a few of my students from the Media Design Program at Art Center and I created an interactive installation for the 10th anniversary of the Architecture+Design Museum. The A+D is a growing...
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Interaction Design & Animism
This spring’s New Ecology of Things course in the Media Design Program had the theme of animism, and explored how interaction design can utilize the natural tendency to imagine that inanimate objects...
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Dimensional Story Space
I wrote this article on interactive story telling in 1992 for a group called Interactive Expression, a group of us in the Los Angeles area who worked at Philips and other early “multimedia” companies....
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Animism as a Metaphor for Interaction Design
SIGCHI 2013 paper AniThings: Animism and Heterogeneous Multiplicity Joshua McVeigh-Schultz and I presented our paper at SIGCHI 2013 in Paris. It presents ideas and a project on using animism as a...
View ArticleThe grain of the material in design
Technology as the designer’s material I would argue that the modern designer’s primary material is technology. And to effectively design and make digital things, you need to deeply understand...
View ArticleAnimistic Design – A New Approach to IoT & AI
In a newly published paper, “Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman” (Digital Creativity – Special Issue: Post-Anthropocentric Creativity), my...
View ArticleAnimistic Collaborators in Mixed Reality
This summer I’m conducting a research project on new approaches for AI in a Mixed Reality context. The project, extends my work with Animistic Design, but takes a different approach to AI embodiment,...
View ArticleTools for Designing Smart, Collaborative Things
With the ability to quickly create working AI prototypes that intelligently move, see, hear and speak, designers can go beyond the cliches of AI, and bring collaborative systems into people’s lives...
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