OBJECT

object

A vision of how we could deal with the storage of digital data more physically and tangibly within the home, the system enables users to associate data to domestic momentos picking up on the way they are displayed around the home to create meaningful links between physical and virtual domains.

The project will be exhibited at the Northumbria University degree show between 18-27th June in Newcastle and then at New Designers between 10-13th July in London.

object film

object camera

Memories captured by the camera are associated through gestures to a physical position within one of three layers, each representing a hierachy of private and public domains altering the method of dispersal to the domestic system, friends and family accordingly.

object exchange and viewer

The exchange converts these images into associations with domestic momentos; by tagging an artefact with a small RFID chip. These objects live in the home like any other and relay information on their social characteristics such as ownership, privacy and preciousness. This physical information is interpreted into an intelligent virtual context, dealing with particular groups of images as the objects are dealt with in the home, perhaps displaying them publicly if the object is displayed on the mantle-peice.

Memories are re-discovered by placing an object on the viewing surface, the object viewer provides an intuitive and engaging way to share memories with others.

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