2007 Project 3: Interaction Concept
10-week Applied Project course
The Nokia Only Planet Umeå project involved an entirely new approach to Only Planet. It was the first time the OP project was run with an Interaction Design class and as such required a re-interpretation of the design brief and project deliverables.
Only Planet is Nokia Design's global student collaboration program with universities and design schools, aimed at uniting the business world, academia and students to work on themes and methods of common interest. Typically, an OP project would involve design students to first do research on their local and national culture - "on the street" (commercial values), "society" (family values), and "culture" (aesthetic values) - then convert these findings into product designs. This time, Nokia representatives Mike Kruzeniski (UID alumni) and Juha Hemanus, wanted to brief the project differently, but stay connected to the spirit of past OP projects. Instead of product designs the brief shifted towards communication experiences.
Nokia is a mobile phone company, but at the very heart of the brand is the desire to connect people, to make people at a distance feel closer together. The students task was to propose a new method to connect people across distances, without the use of voice or text, informed by unique communication behaviors and trends identified from your culture.The proposal at the least should allow two or more people to feel a sense of being connected at a distance, and at best, enable a means for real communication. The distance can be great (1000 miles or more), or small (10 feet). The proposal could be for people that already know each other intimately, or strangers that may never meet. The solution could be a product, a system, an environment. It could be practical or veer towards the artistic.
My experience, by YouLe Chong
Connecting communities, by Vitório Benedetti
Multimodal communication, by Fabricio Dore
Gifts my way, by Annika Ushio
Hot-spot message, by Heewon Lee
The Social Public Jukebox, by Jannes Peters
Loops of Faith, by Rahul Sen
MemoryStars, by Haishu Zhang
Gesture Communication, by Stina Jonsson
