May 2012
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Dynamic Visualization System as a Framework for... →
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April 2012
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March 2012
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Title: Alive Spaces Module
Category: #responsivematerials #livingmaterial
Author: IAD Interaction Design
Year: 2012
Url: http://iad.zhdk.ch/
Description: New kinds of responsive materials are active in themselves: they can self-illuminate (electroluminescent paper) or self-move (electroactive polymers). What do such materials want to do? What kinds of shapes and structures are possible?...
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Title: Robots that fly … and cooperate
Category: #roboticenvironments
Author: Vijay Kumar
Year: 2012
Url: http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html
Description: In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams — for construction, surveying disasters and...
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February 2012
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Title: Clever Home
Category: #homecomputing #computerlearning
Author: Tom Lynch
Year: 2011
Description: Intelligent (computer learning) home automation systems, require human feedback in order to make changes to their control patterns. As the automation system becomes harmonised with the occupants’s patterns, the occupants may become ambivalent to their own needs. How then will the...
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Title: Living with Robot
Category: #speculativedesign
Author: Jae Yeop Kim
Year: 2011
Description: Over the coming years, Robot technology will slowly permeate into our quotidian lives, to the point perhaps of becoming seemlessly integrated, affecting or even mediating our relationship with others. This experimental video depicts what it might feel like if robots were involved in our most...
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January 2012
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Title: Cirriform
Category: #interactiveenvironments #responsiveenvironments
Author: Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno. Future Cities Lab
Year: 2011
Url: http://www.future-cities-lab.net/cirriform/
Description: “Cirriform (noun, plural): transparent cloud formations characterized by narrow feathery bands composed of ice crystals that refract the prevailing colors of the sky. When light...
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Title: Active Patterns
Category: #responsivematerials
Author: AltN Research
Year: 2011
Url: http://altnresearch.com/2011/08/19/active-patterns/
Description: Active Patterns is a study in the use of shape memory polymers as a responsive facade material. The temperature at which the material is determined by them in the lab by altering the ratio of its chemical makeup. The overall “behavior” is...
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Title: Biodelab
Category: #adaptivearchitecture #interactivearchitecture #responsiveenvironments
Author: Begoña Gassó Palop / ADDA
Year: 2011
Url: http://ma-s-lab.blogspot.com/
Description: codelab - emergence is studied through computer techniques. By developing a dynamic system of particles interacting through simple rules we are trying to generate intelligent behaviour in the project ...
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