New media in everyday life
It’s tempting to make a short manifesto of this post, but I’ll save that for later ;-). This blog is just a daily notebook for things related to our research into new media and everyday life. Have a...
View ArticleVideo Clips
Do you recognise the feeling of creating a live video clip on the fly when you go through a city or landscape with your music in your ears? Music can be a very strong guider of our perspective. When...
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CitiTag
STBY participated in two pilots of the multi-player electronic tagging game CitiTag, developed by Yanna Vogiazou from the Open University and HP labs / Mobile Bristol. The experiences of the players...
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Storage and clutter
Two design documentaries on how people store and display things around the house. Produced by STBY in collaboration with the interaction design research team at the Royal College of Art, as part of...
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Mediamediators vlog
A video weblog (vlog) of the creation, adoption and appropriation of interactive objects connected to personal computers in the home. Produced by STBY in collaboration with Tobie Kerridge and Andy...
View ArticleA decade of web use
by Geke van Dijk. Presented at the conference A decade of web design in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005. (PDF, 21.8 MB)
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Design documentaries with heart patients
For Philips Medical Systems in Seatle, STBY produced three design documentaries that portray the daily lives of heart patients in London. These documentaries were made to complement the paper-based...
View ArticleInvestigating users out of the box: exploring multi-channel consumer behaviour
by Geke van Dijk. Presented at SIGCHI2006 conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (PDF in Dutch, 3.6 MB)
View ArticleChannels, consumers and communication: Online and offline communication in...
by Geke van Dijk, Angus Laing and Shailey Minocha. Presented at the Academy of Marketing conference in London 2006. This paper was awarded the Direct and Database Marketing Track Prize by the Institute...
View ArticleMultichannel consumer behavior: online and offline travel preparations
by Geke van Dijk, Shailey Minocha and Angus Laing. Presented at CHI2006 conference in Montreal, Canada. (PDF, 168 KB)
View ArticleDesign Research for Service Innovation
Our creative research projects connect organisations with the lives and experiences of their customers. This helps our clients to innovate their service offering, making it more valuable for both their...
View ArticleDesign Documentaries: Inspiring Design Research Through Documentary Film
by Bas Raijmakers, William W. Gaver and Jon Bishay. Presented at DIS2006 conference in State College, Pennsylvania. (PDF, 3.5 MB)
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Smart molecules
This is a really smart product! Embedded in the knitwear this cap contains D3O material. It is flexible as long as you move in a ‘normal’ way, but locks together on shock. We have been using caps like...
View ArticleDesign and Innovation
A seminar on Creativity Technology & Design, organised by the Tanaka Business School of Imperial College during London Design Festival, clearly showed that business strategist are warming up to the...
View ArticleUncommon Ground
During the Crossmedia Week PICNIC06 in Amsterdam, an interesting workshop on knowledge sharing between academia and industry took place, organised by The Virtual Platform and the Utrecht School of the...
View ArticleEthnography in industry
In collaboration with the People and Practices Group from Intel, STBY organised and moderated a workshop on the use of ethnographic research practices within companies. A wide range of researchers from...
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Food for Thought
InnovationRCA has just published an interesting book by Toke Barter and R√© Dubhthaigh from Radarstation. This book, ‘Food for Thought: A service based approach to embedding innovation‘, addresses...
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Thrill Laboratory
Just spent a thrilling evening at the Dana Centre in London. The theme was Fairground – Thrill Laboratory. A full evening programme about the pleasures of thrill seeking behaviour. Some serious talks,...
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Innovation Reading Circle 01
Initiated by Nico Macdonald, the Innovation Reading Circle convenes on a bi-monthly basis to discuss recent books on innovation. For the first session we read Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling and...
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Convivio workshop
On 4-5 December the Technical University Eindhoven hosted a workshop organised by the European Convivio Network to discuss the big issues for interaction design during the coming 5 years, as well as...
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