Location: Science Museum's Dana Centre, UK
Date: June 23rd, 2009
Time: 11:00 – 16:00 (day); 19:00 - 21:00 (evening)
Organisers: Designing Tangibles for Learning project at the London Knowledge Lab & the Science Museum’s Dana Centre
LKL Contact: Jennifer Sheridan, j.sheridan [AT] ioe.ac.uk
Cost: Free, open to the public Interactives and Workshops (11:00 - 16:00)
http://www.danacentre.org.uk/events/2009/06/23/506 Get clued up on the science of the interactive surface, how you can build one yourself and their potential for fuelling creativity in collaboration and learning in one of the themed drop-in discussion sessions taking place during the day. Discussion sessions will be led by: - Performing with Interactive Surfaces - Sergi Jorda, Reactable founder and creator
- "I don't understand it either, but it's cool" - Designing Surfaces for Public Engagement - Eva Hornecker, University of Strathclyde
- Science Education - Designing Tangibles for Learning project, LKL
Then join us for an evening of performance and discussion as we explore the potential for interactive surfaces to change live performance and the arts. Interactive installations will be on display from 11 am and include: - Making Learning Tangible (London Knowledge Lab, Designing Tangibles for Learning project) Explore the physics of light by manipulating everyday objects on a DIY interactive surface built for children.
- ShareIT DiamondTouch (Open University and University of Sussex) Join the circuit! The multi-user, multi-touch DiamondTouch surface uses your body as an electrical conduit - the minute electrical signal moves through your body to pads on which you stand thereby placing the position of your touch on the table.
- Sensory Threads (Proboscis, Birkbeck and Queen Mary University of London) Explore human relationships with the environment in this experimental mobile and participatory sensing and sonification experience.
- DaisyPhone (Queen Mary University of London) Create music with people from around the world on the world’s first multi-user, live jam for the iPhone.
- FTIR Multitouch Surface (ShareIT project) This large multi-touch table uses the process of FTIR (frustrated total internal reflection) to detect multiple simultaneous touches.
- Cellular Sound (Robin Fencott) Make ambient music with your friends, using a £100 multi-touch surface.
- Skin Vision (e-Sense project) Get in the game as you track and catch a rolling ball when blindfolded using tactile stimulation on your belly.
Reactable and hipDrawing live - 19:00 - 20:45 http://www.danacentre.org.uk/events/2009/06/23/508 hipDrawing: Danielle Wilde (Australia) Experience hipDrawing, a combination of vocal, visual and abstract physical storytelling in which the performer is turned into a human Etch-A-Sketch. Unlike a traditional Etch-A-Sketch in which dials are turned to draw on a two-dimensional screen, hipDrawing sees wearers tracing lines with their hips through space to weave a uniquely strange, funny and highly poetic journey. Reactable: Sergi Jorda (Spain) Sit back and enjoy the world’s most futuristic instrument in action. Used in one of Björk’s Glastonbury performances, Reactable is a collaborative electronic instrument that creates synthesiser music in an entirely new way. It pulses, radiates and takes shape as the performer flips and rotates glowing blocks on a touch-sensitive electric blue tabletop. See www.reactable.com Evening Panelists and Speakers Jennifer Sheridan, Research Officer and Digital Live Artist, London Knowledge Lab Stephen Foulger, Content Director at The Science of…, a joint venture with the Science Museum Carey Jewitt, Reader in Education and Technology, London Knowledge Lab Alan Penn, Professor in Architectural and Urban Computing, The Bartlett, UCL This event is held in conjunction with the London Knowledge Lab and is supported by EPSRC-funded UbiComp Grand Challenge. For more information and directions to the Dana Centre, visit: www.danacentre.org.uk For more information about the Designing Tangibles for Learning project at the London Knowledge Lab click here. |
