reBOOK

In a digital, immersive world, e-book readers and flat displays are taking over what was once the realm of books. The reBook project attempts to revitalize traditional book production by adding a digital interface fabrication step to the conventional print and bind process. A reBook is a fusion of a 'real book' and an e-book; the cover is embedded with a memory module, wireless microprocessor, paper-based keypad, and flexible display. The reBook's coupling of digital content within a familiar design allows for reinterpretation of classic book functionality. We are exploring how new interactions such as search, bookmarking, physical copy and paste, and annotations could emerge with such a product.

SOMOS: Social Mobile User Interface

SOMOS UI is short for Social Mobile UI - fresh concept for a touch-enabled, social mobile contact book application. The contact book is the heart of every mobile phone. For the past 15 years, since mobile phones were introduced, consumers were engraved by a tabular concept as the UI for their contact data. Some reasons for that are speed, efficiency and the relatively simple learning curve this interface provides. SOMOS UI attempts to change this paradigm using a social graph to display contacts. The graph nodes represent contacts. The node size reflects the frequency of communication with that contact. The links in and out of a node are automatically created and hint on the social structure of the entire contact book. It is easy to imagine how clusters that represent ‘family’ or ‘work’ will emerge.

The Touch and Haptic capability of the screen allow easy navigation and search. Touch gestures allow to zoom and scroll. A single tap will open the contact details, while a double tap will make a call. Social actions are natively supported: drag contact on another to create a link between them or send them a mutual introduction. Use your finger to draw a circle and now tap on the circle overlay to send a message to all the contacts within it.