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Touch, Don’t Touch

30 Oct 2011
In: Future Perfect, New York
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There was a time when we made an effort to connect. Today if you are reading this, then you make the effort to disconnect. Today …
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Ad Pick-Up

04 Feb 2011
In: Cultural Norms, Shibuya
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Interactive advertisment using your osaifu-keitai. What contexts are conducive for what kinds of interaction?
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Touch Screen Vending

This acure Shibuya station vending machine by the JR East Water Business Co. is interesting on a number of levels: it’s using a touch screen …
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Metro Etiquette:

Here in the Shanghai metro – when trains reach a particular density there is a subtle change in the passenger behaviour as they approach the …
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Affordances

09 May 2010
In: Design Inspiration, People's Square
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It’s difficult to pass a skateboard and not physically interact in some way – the surface, form invites the flick/nudge/fall of a foot. Visitors are …
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Touch Interaction

26 Apr 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Los Angeles
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A familiar site in European and North American dentists – a tap that turns on and off by gently pressing the top of the pipe. …
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Contactless Confusion

30 Dec 2008
In: Future Perfect, Shinagawa
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A feature of contactless cards is the ability to authenticate (pass through ticket barriers/make payments/…) without removing the card from the wallet or purse. Except that …
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Advertising Touch

20 May 2006
In: Future Perfect, Xiamen
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Ferry commuters support themselves by grabbing ceiling mounted handles. If the body beomes a network capable of sending and receiving data, will we need to …
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