Physical computing references
This page lists useful references about physical computing for students on the Interaction Design programme at IUAV University of Venice.
PUBLICATIONS
Pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, tangible user interface
Aarts, Emile, and Stefano Marzano. 2003. The New Everyday: Views on Ambient Intelligence. Rotterdam: 010. Available online at Googlebooks
Baudrillard, Jean. 1968. Le Système des objets. Paris: Gallimard. (The System of Objects. 2006. trans. James Benedict. London: Verso; Il sistema degli ogetti trans. Saverio Esposito. Milan: Bonpiani 1972/2007.)
Bullivant, Lucy, ed. 2005. 4dSpace: Interactive Architecture (Architectural Designvol. 57). London: Academy.
Bullivant, Lucy, ed. 2007. 4dSocial (Architectural Design vol. 77 No 4). London: Academy/Wiley.
Dunne, Anthony, and Fiona Raby. 2001. Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects. Basel: Birkhauser / August Media.
Communications of the ACM Volume 48 , Issue 3. March 2005. The disappearing computer. (Available online to subscribers to the ACM Digital Library.
Dourish, Paul. 2001. Where the Action Is. 2001. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Greenfield, Adam. 2006. Everywhere. Berkeley CA: New Riders
Shanken, Edward A. 2009. Art and Electronic Media. London: Phaidon
Sterling, Bruce. 2005. Shaping Things. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
N. Streitz, A. Kameas, and I. Mavrommati (Eds.). 2007. The Disappearing Computer. Springer
Troika (Conny Freyer et al). 2009. Digital by Design: Crafting Technology for Products and Environments. London: Phaidon
Technical: physical interaction
Banzi, Massimo. 2009. Getting Started with Arduino. Sebastapol CA: O'Reilly.
Haque, Usman, and Adam Somlai-Fischer. Low Tech Sensors and Actuators. Free download from http://www.lowtech.propositions.org.uk
Igoe, Tom. 2007. Making Things Talk. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly.
McRoberts, Michael. 2010. Beginning Arduino. New York: Apress.
Noble, Joshua. 2009. Programming Interactivity: A Designer's Guide to Processing, Arduino, and OpenFrameworks. Sebastopol CA:O'Reilly.
O’Sullivan, Dan, and Tom Igoe. 2004. Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers. Boston: Thomson.
Tom Igoe's ITP course material is at http://tigoe.net/pcomp/
Pfister, Cuno. 2011. Getting Started with the Internet of Things. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly.
Reas, Casey, and Ben Fry. 2007. Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Pakhchyan, Syuzi. 2008. Fashioning Technology. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly.
WEBSITES
Technical
Reactable: Reactable (tabletop musical composition using coded counters)
http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/?media
UK Electronics club http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/index.htm
Arduino http://www.arduino.cc/
Fritzing pcb system http://fritzing.org/
Instructables http://www.instructables.com
Seeed studio http://seeedstudio.com/depot/
Pachube (pronounced Patch-bay) https://pachube.com/
Replace Base (spare parts for mobile phones) http://www.replacebase.co.uk
Beyond the desktop (physical and pervasive computing)
ART+COM: Famous Grouse installation (virtual pool).
https://artcom.de/en/project/grouse-experience-3/
ART+COM: Floating Numbers installation
https://artcom.de/en/project/floating-numbers/
Cute Circuit (Ryan Genz and Francesca Rosella, Interaction-Ivrea): Hug Shirt (remote hugging)
http://www.cutecircuit.com/now/projects/wearables/fr-hugs/
Dunne & Raby: projects (value fictions rather than science fictions)
http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/
FluidTime: projects (mobile access to constantly updated timetable data)
http://www.fluidtime.net/web/com_partners.0.html
William Gaver and others: Drift Table (digital furniture)
http://www.submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/12/10/drift-table
IBM: Checkout Line (advertisement for RFID tagging in supermarkets)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZYY85IyDNM&feature=related
Ident technology: GestIC (gesture interaction through the body’s electrical conductivity)
http://www.ident-technology.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=92&lang=en
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea: La memoria degli oggetti (interactive exhibition in Achille Castiglione’s studio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVmD4iTXRLE&NR=1
Intactive: Multitouch Bar
http://intactive.de/intactive-multitouch-table
Interactive Productline: Mindball (game controlled by neurofeedback)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn9e0Z5-FH4&feature=related
Toshio Iwai: Tenori-On (tablet music maker)
http://www.youtube.com/w/Toshio-Iwai-(TENORI-ON)-@-Artfutura05?v=WQq2aXvIsz4
Theo Jansen: Beach Creatures (wind-driven contraptions with rudimentary memory and intelligence)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/162
Klein Dytham: i-fly Virgin Wonderwall (mobile phone quiz on advertising hoarding
http://www.klein-dytham.com/project/more/i-fly-virgin-wonderwall/1
Koert (Koert van Mensvoort): Data Fountain (displays current financial data)
http://www.koert.com/work/datafountain
Lust: Generation Random (tabletop touchscreenbeautiful virtual dynamics)
http://blog.waag.org/?p=85
MiME: Intimate Media projects (personal memory devices)
http://www.mimeproject.org
Mindstorm: iBar (large multitouch table)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaKehq6qsdY&feature=related
MIT Media Lab Tangible Media Group: SandScape (tangible landscapes)
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/sandscape
Christian Moeller: ZeilGallerie, Frankfurt (early of a reactive building façade)
http://www.christian-moeller.com/display.php?project_id=30&pointer=0
Nanowires: power-generating wearable fibres
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7241040.stm
Natural Interaction: projects (an Italian interaction design company)
http://naturalinteraction.org/index.php?entry=entry080205-105719
Reactable: Reactable (tabletop musical composition using coded counters)
http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/?media
RFID customer-tracking: (anonymous?) shopping mall simulation (?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVmD4iTXRLE&NR=1
Daniel Rosin: Wooden Mirror (mirror made of wooden pixels)
http://www.smoothware.com/danny/mirror.html
Small Design Firm (specialists in interactive exhibits): projects
http://www.davidsmall.com
Sony Corporation: DataTile (configure physical tiles for linked dynamic data)
http://blog.coolz0r.com/2006/03/27/sony-datatile-modular-platform
Yaniv Steiner: Artissima exhibit (gesture recognition in museum)
http://www.nastypixel.com/prototype/wow
Haque, Usman; Adam Somlai-Fischer. Low Tech Sensors and Actuators. Free download from http://www.lowtech.propositions.org.uk
Visual Planet: Touchfoil (large-scale touch screens)
http://www.visualplanet.biz/products/touchfoil/?_kk=22f0bbc9-e288-4630-83f5-e76f0159062d&_kt=1290742982&gclid=CLXogNyJqZECFQmHaAodJkpefg
Haiyan Zhang (Interaction-Ivrea): Control Freaks (game input devices)
http://failedrobot.com/thesis
ELECTRONICS SUPPLIERS
Farnell
(in Italy) http://it.farnell.com/jsp/home/homepage.jsp
(In UK) http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/home/homepage.jsp
RS Components
(In Italy) http://www.rs-components.it
(In UK) http://rswww.com
Robot Italy
(In Italy) http://www.robot-italy.com
Smart Projects
(In Italy) http://www.smartprojects.it