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Today´s interaction with the city bike

Posted by: gcbb on: April 21, 2008

1.Retrieving the usercard 2.Register the card 3.The depot delegates a bike 4.You take the bike out of the depot 5.Pack your baggage  6.adjust the seat 7.Mount the bike 8.Ride the bike  9.deliver the bike (within two hours of withdraw). 

1:Find your card, 2: Register, 3: The depot delegates your bike, 4: Retrieve your bike. 5: Pack your baggage, 6: Adjust the seat, 7: Mount the bike, 8: Ride to your destination, 9: Replace the bike at a free spot

The sequence of borrowing a bike on the existing system.The interactions are simple and well explained. Of course, one needs to know where to find the bike depots in the depart and destination areas. 

 

 Arrive at desired bike depot, this one is empty  By holding the card to the depot´s reader, the user can find the status of bikes on the five nearest other depots.

On the occasion of an empty bike depot when you need a bike or vice versa, a full bike depot when you wish to deliver a bike you will have the possibility to find the status of the five nearest bike-depots in the area.

 

A video of the interaction:

 

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I am a master student at the Oslo school of Architecture & Design in Norway. My studies are in industrial design, focused on interaction design and tangible interactions. This blog follows a studio course called "Touch - new local interfaces" that researches tangible interaction and networked objects specially through RFID technology. My projects investigates interactions in the public domain, and is working against services around bike-sharing systems. Feel free to comment! Gunnar Bothner-By

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