INTERACTION-VENICE

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Interaction Design projects

   Lab 1: On-screen interaction

   Lab 2: Ambient interaction

   Thesis projects

Project sites

Screen-based interaction themes

   2009-10 Venice Hypothetical

   2008-09 The Open Hand

   2007-08 Invisible Bridges

   2006-07 Nomads@Work

   2005-06 Smart Biennale

 

Ambient interaction themes

   2009-10 Signals in space

   Punti di vendita calzaturiera

   Point of sale for shoes

   2007-08 Time Machine

   2006-07 Walls Have Ears

 

Thesis projects

   Thesis project archive

   

 

Photo: Lab 2 physical computing project, ''Flyer Café', by Davide Cocchi and Luca De Rosso.

 

Screen-based design project themes

Projects from in the Interaction Design programme at IUAV University of Venice.

These projects concentrate on the social side of applications and services well as on aesthetic and technical aspects. We believe that designing function is not enough: successful applications must also satisfy people's social and emotional needs. The projects often take Venice as their context: the challenge for interaction design, to develop the new without losing what is of value in the old, is particularly poignant here.

 

	Venice Hypothetical (2009-10) Students were invited to imagine for Venice a hypothetical past (which did not happen) or a counterfactual future (which might happen, however improbable), and then design and prototype for their scenario an interactive service accessed by mobile phone .
	The Open Hand (2008-09) Mobile phone applications and services to welcome visitors to Venice. Applications included Piscator, a service to help Erasmus students get to know each other, or Expiry Date: when your food is expiring, find someone to share it with.
	Invisible Bridges 2007-08 A site-specific installation in Venice on the theme of time. Solutions included a system to play with light in a dark alley, changing with the path of the sun, to an installation that allowed people to become orchestra directors on the ripples of the lagoon.
	nomads@work 2006-07 Cellular phone applications for nomad workers in Venice—people whose jobs mean that they are always on the go in the streets of the city. They include tourist guides, rose-sellers, ambulance workers, Vigili (local police).
	Smart Biennale 2005-06 Applications to make people's visits to the Art Biennale more fulfilling. Solutions included a SecondLife-type application for people with similar intererests to meet, a way to vote for your favourite pavilions, a way to allow artists and curators to get in touch.