Drift Table & History Tablecloth at the V&A
The Drift Table and History Tablecloth formed part of the Touch Me exhibition at the V&A museum, London.
Over 20,000 people visited the exhibition which ran between the 16th June and 29th August.
August 29, 2005
July 15, 2005
Drift Table in Tate Britain
The Drift Table was included in A Picture of Britain, an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, running from the 15th June to 4th September 2005.
December 16, 2004
History Tablecloth
The tablecloth draws attention to the flow of objects over surfaces within the home by signalling how long things have been left upon it. When an object is left on the table, it's weight and location are registered. If the object remains motionless for a certain amount of time, a glowing EL halo forms beneath and around it.
The History Tablecloth is part of the Equator IRC Domestic Experience project, conceived by and developed in cooperation with the Interaction Research Studio at the Royal College of Art.
More information at the RCA's Electronic Furniture for the Curious Home page.
April 29, 2004
The drift table: designing for ludic engagement.
William W. Gaver, John Bowers, Andrew Boucher, Hans Gellersen, Sarah Pennington, Albrecht Schmidt, Anthony Steed, Nicolas Villar, Brendan Walker
CHI '04, Vienna, Austria
June 27, 2003
Key Table / Picture Frame
The Key Table gets a sense of people's emotions from the way they dump their stuff onto it. Much as slamming doors are a crude measure of mental state, so the table uses the transient onsets of a new weight to gauge mood. Reactions to emotional entrances are triggered as mechanised frames swing pictures off centre to warn other inhabitants to tread carefully.
Key Table & Picture Frame are part of the Equator IRC Domestic Experience project. They were conceived by and developed in cooperation with the Interaction Research Studio at the Royal College of Art.
More information at the RCA's Electronic Furniture for the Curious Home page.
February 05, 2003
Drift Table
The Drift Table allows people to float slowly over the British landscape from the comfort of their own home. The distribution of weight on the table controls the slow scroll of aerial photographs displayed on a central viewport. Progress is slow, but the Drift Table can be used to visit favorite places, look at geographical features, or simply watch
the world go by.
The Drift Table is part of the Equator IRC Domestic Experience project. They were conceived by and developed in cooperation with the Interaction Research Studio at the Royal College of Art.
More information at the RCA's Electronic Furniture for the Curious Home page.
