News in 2004

Royal College of Art workshop on Design for Everyday Life at 2AD conference, Bristol, UK.

‘Designing Electronic Furniture for the Curious Home’ featured in Convivio webzine.

Electronic Furniture for the Curious Home featured in Blueprint magazine, “Furniture with Feelings”, by Henrietta Thompson, full-page article page 107.

The Drift Table featured in CNR, Spanish magazine, October 2004

RCA Curious Home work in The Colourist magazine, Autumn 2004

RCA Curious Home furniture featured in Computer Zeitung, German newspaper.

Convivio webzine features interview with Bill Gaver, ‘Living Well with Technology’.

Electronic Furniture for the Curious Home wins DIS International Design awards for Best Concept, and Honourable Mention for Academic Design category, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Feature on Electronic Furniture for the Curious Home broadcast on the Discovery Channel, Canada, “Daily Planet” programme, with viewing figures of around 7 million Americans.

DigiCULT Technology Watch Report 2. February 2004, pp. 103-106.

Understanding Interaction in 'Ubiquitous Guerrilla Performances in Playful Arenas' blogged on Turbulence.org.

No One Open Attachments Anymore will bring together a select and intimate group of creative thinkers in computing, engineering, design and the arts for two days of :::explorative activity and scientific inquiry::: to be co-hosted in the Computing Department at InfoLab21 and Folly new media centre in Lancaster UK. Our intention is to bring together artists and scientists from different disciplines so that we can explore the tensions that exist between arts/tech collaborations. Through explorative activity and dialogue, we expect to generate prototype projects and ideas for future art/tech collaborations. Special guests include KIT (International), Steve Benford (UK) Roberta Buiani (Canada) and David Bruemmer (USA).

Feature in Embroidery Magazine, September/October 2004

Article on The Drift Table in Lancashire Evening Post.

Imagine you're walking down Main Street to the bus stop when your mobile phone buzzes with a message. You realize you've been bluejacked, but you're surprised by the content of the Bluetoothed message. "Would you like the pollution level for your location as of this moment?" You click "accept" and are informed that there is a carbon monoxide reading of 9.3 parts-per-million where you're standing...

Virtual reality, VR, has been around for years now, and where training is concerned it's certainly helping in some unusual circumstances, everything from the virtual patient at the doctors, to the virtual driving school... How about air traffic control simulation using VR?

Uncle Roy All Around You/Steve Benford interview.

Electonic Furniture for the Curious Home in publication to accompany Nesta/Wellcome Trust funded UK touring exhibition ‘Wonderful: Visions of the Near Future’. Publication edited by Maria Fusco.