http://www.localhiddenvariable.com Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:59:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Get Together Get Together is a service that uses the web and SMS to help friends coordinate social activities. It is designed for collaborating on upcoming events (i.e. birthday party) or to help friends make an event when none exists (i.e. friday night after work). Get Together strives to use the ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/get-together/ Meet the Food You Eat Meet the Food You Eat uses the metaphor of a mechanical kitchen scale to measure a food product’s environmental impact. It looks at the carbon emitted as a result of transporting the food and displays this in terms of how many trees would be required to ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/meet-the-food-you-eat/ Green House CPH As a collaboration with Intel, this student project explored the role of emerging smart grid technology in the context of social computing and personal energy consumption. Green House CPH is a hypothetical government program that provides rebates on energy bills to residents of apartment buildings who can work ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/green-house-cph/ Travel Global | Read Local Travel Global | Read Local is a service designed for the Libraries of Denmark to offer in conjunction with local hotels. It aims to position the libraries as leaders in promoting Danish culture and knowledge by making their services available to everyone. At the same time, ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/travel-global-read-local/ Right Person at the Right Time - Nokia Concepts As today’s tech savvy youth begin to mature, how will mobile phones support their new needs? These three scenarios for Nokia explore how a growing number of personal communication channels can support young people’s maturing need of being available to the right ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/right-person-at-the-right-time/ PhotoCaring PhotoCaring is a concept design for an interactive surface that displays shared photographs belonging to residents of an elderly home. The photographs are displayed in a gallery format on a wall in one of the home’s common spaces where interacting with and sharing these personal photos will promote social well-being, ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/photocaring/ Message in a Bottle As an exercise in physical computing, we created a wireless email notification device in the form of a wine bottle. All interaction is done physically and there are no buttons. The concept was to limit our compulsion to obsessively check the computer for new messages while also ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/message-in-a-bottle/ Hello! My name is Adam Little and I am an interaction designer who enjoys human centered design in collaborative, multicultural and cross disciplinary teams. I recently graduated from the Interaction Design Pilot Year, a Master's level education at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design in partnership with the Danish Design ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/hello-world/ Prototypes as Games If you are going to get your hands dirty with a new technology, why not make a game? Here are experiments with computer vision, interactive surfaces and Processing that all took the form of simple, playful games. [nggallery id=8] Reactivision Pilot Mixer As an experiment in prototyping interactive, touch-screen surfaces with ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/prototypes-as-games/ PEPY PEPY is a grassroots NGO dedicated to sustainable tourism and educational development in rural Cambodia. I spent two months at their Phnom Penh office working to launch a new website promoting their adventure bicycle treks and a social network to keep past participants and volunteers involved in the amazing work ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/pepy/ Fah Diow Foundation Fah Diow is a non-profit organization that works with communities in Southern Thailand. Working from their Krabi office, it was my duty to review and redevelop the Fah Diow website in association with members of its Thai team, provide in house training on digital media development and provide ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/fah-diow-foundation/ Record Player Drawings A series of generative drawings created with modified turntables. While one turntable plays a record, a second turntable simultaneously makes a pencil drawing based on the grooves in the record being spun. The idea was to take a person’s favorite record and then give them a drawing of ... http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/record-player-drawings/