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  • 10FebTaptap and its next steps

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    The Seamless Fashion show has presented Taptap a project I team-developped for the Tangible Interface class at MIT Media Lab. Previously called Touching Memories, it is about the possibility to record memories of touch.
    I cared about recording affectionate touch rather than touch used during physical therapy or learning. Trying to find a potential application for this concept, I remembered the urgency in the need of nurses during war; during such event orphans, especially young babies, need a certain amount of hugs to survive. The scarf was then an attempt to overcome this problem. It could be used as a platform for the nurse to hug many children at once and help them survive. After discussing with Leo about this application, he has found some research on baby monkeys in relationship to an artificial mother. Regarding the design and this application in mind, I wanted the sensory object to be a scarf to easily position the sensors where and when needed. The modularity also offers the potential for the scarf to be independent from the electronic as much as the electronic to differ from the scarf and have a life on its own.We have written a work in progress paper for CHI’06 about Taptap that has just been accepted. We are now discussing with health care department about the next steps of our system.

    In the meantime, Taptap has been exhibited at the Seamless Fashion Show in Boston.

    The following in a slideshow presenting the pictures I took of the fashion show

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    Flash Slideshow

    Photos during rehersal and also more photos during the fashion show.




    Models: Lauren and Joy

    By Cati in computational product design

  • 25MarParis can be beautiful

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    Debris de Paris

    Debris de Paris


  • 28MarErnesto Neto : huggable sculptures

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    I love Ernesto Neto’s soft “huggable” sculptures.

    Exhibited in Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, USA in March 2002. Neto’s sculptures and installations are indeed singular in contemporary art,” says curator Viso. “His works, which he describes as a ‘kind of body/space/landscape,’ not only arrest us visually but also make us keenly aware of the spaces inside, around and between our bodies. We become voyagers in sensorial odysseys

    Ernesto Neto (Brazilian, born 1966), “The Ovaloids Meeting” (1998). Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.


  • 29MarHealth care and product design : Sleep & Recovery Enhancer by André Kongevold

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    SRE – Sleep & Recovery Enhancer by André Kongevold

    Today, stress-related sleeping problems are increasingly common. More and more people experience difficulties falling asleep at bedtime. The SRE will guide the user through autogenous exercises to lower the stress-level and reduce time to fall asleep. This in turn will improve sleep quality and minimize daytime effects.

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  • 29MarThe Hug by Sohui Won

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    When you chat with your friend or family, you can feel their touch as well. Just hug “the hug.”

    ” “The Hug” is communicator to feel touch. It has two main functions.

    – Sending / Saving / Receiving messages

    – Sending / Saving / Receiving touches

    Have you wanted to convey your touch to your lover or children? Trough this device, you can transmit your touch with a message to another device that my pal has. When you leave a message, you can hug and touch “The Hug” to transmit your touch. So the movement of your touch can be conveyed to your mate’s device through heat-line and vibration.”

    More detail about the project


  • 29MarThe Hug by Sohui Won

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    When you chat with your friend or family, you can feel their touch as well. Just hug “the hug.”

    ” “The Hug” is communicator to feel touch. It has two main functions.

    – Sending / Saving / Receiving messages

    – Sending / Saving / Receiving touches

    Have you wanted to convey your touch to your lover or children? Trough this device, you can transmit your touch with a message to another device that my pal has. When you leave a message, you can hug and touch “The Hug” to transmit your touch. So the movement of your touch can be conveyed to your mate’s device through heat-line and vibration.”

    More detail about the project


  • 29MarThe Hug : interaction design

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    The Hug is A visionary robotic product concept developped by Carl DiSalvo, Carl DiSalvo, Francine Gemperle, Willy Yonkers, Elliott Montgomery, and Jamie Divine.

    The Hug is a soft, huggable product that uses sensing technology and wireless telephony to provide social and emotional support for distant family members. Thisrobotic product uses verbal communications along with touch and physical interaction to create a sense of presence. The Hug uses technology in a way that profoundly addresses an observed human need — the need for a sense of presence during intimate communication.

    descriptive paper and technical details published at RO-MAN (IEEE International Workshop on Robots and Human Interactive Communication), another one on the design form, and a case sketch.



    More info


  • 29MarThe Hug : interaction design

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    The Hug is A visionary robotic product concept developped by Carl DiSalvo, Carl DiSalvo, Francine Gemperle, Willy Yonkers, Elliott Montgomery, and Jamie Divine.

    The Hug is a soft, huggable product that uses sensing technology and wireless telephony to provide social and emotional support for distant family members. Thisrobotic product uses verbal communications along with touch and physical interaction to create a sense of presence. The Hug uses technology in a way that profoundly addresses an observed human need — the need for a sense of presence during intimate communication.

    descriptive paper and technical details published at RO-MAN (IEEE International Workshop on Robots and Human Interactive Communication), another one on the design form, and a case sketch.



    More info


  • 31MarHala Elkoussy photography

    The work of Hala Elkoussy reminds me of the atmosphere I love so much in ‘time of the gypsies’ from Emir Kusturika

    The starting point for the photographic and video work of Hala Elkoussy (b. 1974, Cairo) is the constant change in the relationship between people and their social environment. In this she focuses specifically on the city where she was born, Cairo, a metropolis that exemplifies all of the large urban conglomerates in North Africa and Eurasia when it comes to modernisation and Westernisation. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam is showing her project Peripheral, which was previously seen at the Istanbul Biennale in September, 2005.

    Hala Elkoussy, Peripheral (and other stories), 2 April – 14 May 2006 at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.

    By Cati in personal addiction


  • 31MarHala Elkoussy photography

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    The work of Hala Elkoussy reminds me of the atmosphere I love so much in ‘time of the gypsies’ from Emir Kusturika

    The starting point for the photographic and video work of Hala Elkoussy (b. 1974, Cairo) is the constant change in the relationship between people and their social environment. In this she focuses specifically on the city where she was born, Cairo, a metropolis that exemplifies all of the large urban conglomerates in North Africa and Eurasia when it comes to modernisation and Westernisation. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam is showing her project Peripheral, which was previously seen at the Istanbul Biennale in September, 2005.

    Hala Elkoussy, Peripheral (and other stories), 2 April – 14 May 2006 at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.

    By Cati in personal addiction