DA Tangible Electronics

Tangible Electronics is the 2007 Summer Session in Interaction Design of Domus Academy.It is a two weeks introductory course to the Interaction Design discipline for design students and young professionals, taking place from July 17th to 27th.Enabling technologies within the everyday environment, such as mobile communication and social networking platforms, are radically changing our daily routines on many visible and invisible levels, and they are living demonstrations of the potentiality of digital media in supporting/shaping our social environment. Naturally, as the complexity of technologies evolve, so do the expectations of the users. Products and services no longer have a purely functional role east Inflatables. Rather, consumers desire more emotive and subjective qualities that touch on more complex mental models. Powerful interactive electronic tools are emerging, often networked and with the option of playing with personal and public identities they permit to users to access, manipulate and exchange information.“Whenever, wherever, whoever” paints the picture of telecommunication today and this is spreading fast into other contexts of contemporary living sumo suits for sale. Are we heading in the right direction?The Summer Session is focused on the design of innovative consumer electronic tools in the context of mobility (umpc, mobile phone, locative media etc.) considering both tangible/physical qualities (physical manipulation, gestures, etc…) and immaterial interactions with social networking functionalities and services.Mobility means to investigate the possibility to connect the experience to the physical spacescommercial water slides, to provide immediate, ubiquitous access to social dynamics.Social networking means to focus on human relationships, to share remote experiences and create social ties.http://projects.domusacademy.net/te