PROJECT TABLE MANNERS.

One step back. After my research on excessive mobile phone usage at the dinner table (mainly in the first semester), I need to think about HOW to threat the device at the dinner table. 4 concepts can be considered: (1) the phone must be away from the table, (2) the phone cannot be picked up from the table, (3) the phone needs to be used during interaction (4) remove the phone’s functions by blocking the Wi-fi signals - hide it in a special box or case ...

PROJECT TABLE MANNERS / INTERACTION ENGINEERING.

Without buttons, just hands!!!

Sony’s SmartSkin (2002) An Infrastructure for Freehand Manipulations on Interactive Surfaces

“(...) sensitive to human hand and finger gestures. This sensor recognizes multiple hand positions and their shapes as well as calculates the distances between the hands and the surface by using capacitive sensing and a mesh-shaped antenna. In contrast to camera-based gesture recognition systems, all sensing elements can be integrated within the surface, and this method does not suffer from lighting and occlusion problems.” 

INTERACTION ENGINEERING / TABLE MANNERS.

Inspiration! Transparant controllers made of silicon material that influence the tangible interface (for example, for a table top). 

Buttons that influence table top!

How doe it work? On the bottom side of the controllers, there is a visual marker that is recognized by a technique called

Diffuse Illumination.

“Bridging the Gap Between Virtual and Physical Controls on Tabletops”

Source: http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/slap

Personal note: for my “table manners”-project, be critical about the involvement of buttons, controllers, etc. Focus needs to be on the offline, social interaction at the dinner table!

PROJECT TABLE MANNERS.

Technological inspiration. Tangible tables! Idea is to use the environment of the restaurant. Table top.

TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES

“Allowing multiple people explore content”

PROJECT TABLE MANNERS.

PROJECT TABLE MANNERS.

Shallow interaction design

PERSONAL PROJECT | INSPIRATION