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This week, I entered my last semester at AHO. I´m doing my master thesis in collaboration with Deichmanske library in Oslo (again… see previous post). The thesis will explore future technological posibilities for the library, looking at what rolles it can fill, and services it can provide in using mobile [...]

Ok, ok. I know I have neglected this blog, and that I have not yet finished explaining the outcome of my last semester yet. POSTS WILL BE UPDATED. I just need to sit down with it for a while…
Anyway, this semester I´m following a course called Teknoform (this is a link to the course description, [...]

It has been an extremely hectic three weeks, and the project-blog has been inconsiderately neglected I will do something about that , but it may take some time. In short, more testing was done, a prototype built, a paper was written and the project was presented to an external sensor. Everything has been exhibited [...]

Today I have been doing concept-testing out in the streets. Joachim, Andre and Jan-Christian joined me for a couple of hours to do some chasing around st.Hans-haugen. We tried two game- concepts: Tag, and bingo, with camera mobiles strapped to the bicycles.

 
The first game was done in three intervals, with an increasing arena to play [...]

The design-brief as presented is a very general on ment to intrigue, and to “sell” the project.
 
I have made a more focused one, that constrains the amount of work a bit:
 

Design Brief for work on a camera for the game concept Chaser.
 
Title: Bikes´n Buttons
Background: Chaser is a game that uses Oslo Bysykkel (city bikes) as an infrastructure [...]

The time is running and the project is going forward. I´m working on a direction where the city-bike service is used as an infrastructure for games (more on that in my previous post). And for this week I really want to confine that idea, so that I can look at different interactions. There are some scheduled [...]

Iteration five of my semester project has focused on the city-bike as platform for social networked services. I want to make a service that is about actions rather than representations of happened places. About being the in the  moment rather than looking at the image of it. I have pursued two conceptual directions from this stance: One is [...]

From Frog designs frog blog: “design conversations, not products” have similar thought on the design practice as Schulze&Webb´s idea of “Products are people to“
 
and Schulze&Webb´s Olinda radio has been launched. It is a very interesting approach to a product serving more than the obvious function (in this case a radio, a audio application). The physical product is [...]