September 2004 to June 2005 . Ivrea, Italy
In the future, our electronic devices will be networked together and all our digital 'content' readily available when we need it. So we will have ever more data to sift through. This project looks at new ways to access, view and filter this growing store of information.
Exploring the Content Network , a set of screen-based software and hardware interactions between devices. Devices are physically manipulated, and keywords are used to make more intuitive natural way to access the content.
The coordinating system, Content Network, connects a group of devices and gives them access to each others' content. One of its elements, Navigation Through Related Tags, lets people find their content based on keywords instead of folders. Combining Devices to Navigate Content, uses very short-range wireless between the devices to detect how they are interacting and trigger data transfer and shared actions: placing one person's mobile phone over another's, for instance, bring up, on both screens, a combined calendar highlighting available times for a proposed meeting.
Related tags offered a new way to sort and organize your content by keyword. Physical interactions helps by using intuitive actions to interconnect the devices of a group of people, to show only data relevant to, and organized for, the task in hand. These concepts, which apply to both work and social groupings, demonstrate new potentials in navigating your content without the fear of information overload normally associated with it.
Project Images
The Content Network
 Credit: Ivan Gasparini.
Related Tag Navigation user interface image
 Credit: Thomas Stovicek.
Combining Device to Navigate Content.
 Credit: Thomas Stovicek.
Content Comparison
Credit: Thomas Stovicek
High resolution images are available on request
EXIT 2005
Exploring the Content Network was presented as part of EXIT, the Interaction Ivrea 2005 Year End Show in Torino, Italy.
Some additional images of the event are available on Erez Kikin-Gil's Site.
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