Although the ‘wireless’ icons are often found in current card readers, they do not successfully indicate the touch-based interactions inherent in the technology, and may be confused with WiFi or Bluetooth. Icons with mobile phones or cards might be helpful in situations where basic usability for a wide range of users is required. The icons range from being generic (abstracted circles or arrows to indicate function) to specific (mobile phones or cards touching tags).Īrrows might be suitable for specific functions or actions in combinations with other illustrative material. Sketching and development revealed five initial directions: circles, wireless, card-based, mobile-based and arrows (see the poster for more details). I have also had great discussions with Ulla-Maaria Mutanen and Jyri Engestr?m who have been doing interesting work with thinglinks and the intricate weaving of RFID into craft products. In Japan there are also instances of touch-based interactions being represented by characters, colours and iconography that are abstracted from the action itself.
There is also a growing collection of existing iconography in contactless payment systems, with a number of interesting graphic treatments in a technology-led, vernacular form. Current research in ubicomp and ‘locative media’ is not addressing these visibility issues. One of the key findings of this research was that visibility and placement of stickers in public space is an essential part of their use. This draws heavily on the substantial body of images of visual marking in public space. The inspiration for this is in the marking of public space and existing iconography for interactions with objects: push buttons on pedestrian crossings, contactless cards, signage and instructional diagrams. It uncovers interesting directions while the technology is still largely out of the hands of everyday users. This work doesn’t attempt to be a definitive system for marking physical things, it is an exploratory process to find out how digital/physical interactions might work. How do we represent an object that has digital function, information or history beyond it’s physical form? What are the visual clues for this interaction? We shouldn’t rely on a kind of mystery meat navigation (the scourge of the web-design world) where we have to touch everything to find out it’s meaning.
I’m interested in the visual link between information and physical things. It was a presentation and poster at Design Engaged, Berlin on the 11th November 2005.ĭownload the icons (PDF, 721KB, Gif preview).Īs mobile phones are increasingly able to read and write to RFID tags embedded in the physical world, I am wondering how we will appropriate this for personal and social uses. This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC. Posted in Photography, Place 1 Comment on The Longest Photographic Exposures You are here Posted in Graphic design, Information design, Mapping, Place, Research, Travel 2 Comments on You are here Graphic language for touch The Longest Photographic Exposures in History. Category: Place The Longest Photographic Exposures
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