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Design-based light recipe that shines vertically across 20,000m2 of farmland with leek (Allium porrum).

Grow

The electric car produced by Audi uses digital matrix LED headlights to project visuals on the road and other surfaces.

Audi A6 e-tron

A 3D scan or model can be sent as a gift to the box, which starts glowing upon receiving it. Open the box and view the gift through a handheld device.

ConnectiBox

Someone remote sends a picture from their daily life, the picture appears pixelated in a frame, needs to be touched to reveal itself fully.

ConnectiFrame

Folding the glass pane down to cooking mode activates a virtual overlay providing recipe search, cooking instructions and realtime video calls for cooking support.

Foodie

An augmentation layer overlaying visual art on advertising billboards to reclaim the public space for artists.

NO AD

A multiuser installation based on astronomical concepts.

Multi Jumping Universe

Temporary tattoos for on-skin input, output and communication.

Duoskin

A fluid audiovisual Op-Art experience.

Onde Pixel

Visual and auditory augmentation of warehouse work.

Augmented warehouse work

Historical touristic content on printed map through handheld AR.

Treasure Map

Using AR to provide remote support for technical maintenance.

Remote technical assistance

A dystopic vision of surveillance society.

Semiotic citizen

Telling a historical story of a place, a theme or an era using archival photographs distributed through handheld AR.

Weaving through Norrköping history

Using a handheld projector to provide information complementary to artworks and the guide the visitor through the collections.

Handheld projection in a museum

Engaging strangers in intimate, performative social play -- a step towards Homo Explorens.

Mediated Body

As a page is being colored, handheld AR shows a 3D-rendered version of the character on the page is textured with the coloring.

3D characters from coloring book

Each swing triggers musical notes when used, but certain melodies appear only when the three swings in a group move in a synchronized way.

21 Swings

Turn the steps of the staircase into a piano keyboard and have each step play its corresponding note when stepped upon. The aim is to motivate people to use the stairs rather than the escalator.

Piano Stairs

Collect thermal imaging data, perform edge detection and present on a helmet visor to enable firefighters to see better in smoke and in the dark.

C-THRU

Handheld AR is used to combine thriving virtual plants with physical sculptures of an apparently barren landscape, thus expressing a message of resilience, adaptation and hope.

Reforestation of the imagination

The bridge is augmented with colored lighting and running lights, controlled by environmental data such as time of day, season, and traffic volume to express the pulse of the city.

Jacques Cartier Bridge Lights

A paper workbook with handheld AR augmentations of moving media and interactive exercises to teach about the solar system.

Solar System Expedition

Projection on a controlled fountain waterscreen of full-length 260m. Use your smartphone as a fishing reel and join forces with other participants, spin you reel round and round to haul in a fish. If you are successful the fish appears in your smartphone.

Interactive Fishing Party

A light that is similar to a flashlight, with which a person is able to bring projection mapping with them anywhere.

Lumen

Making the space more hospitable by creating a positive, almost entertaining ambience.

Train station Falkenberg

Make walking directions easier. The user points their phone’s cameras at their surroundings and machine learning will identify the landmarks based on Street View imagery to pinpoint their location. It can then more accurately identify position and orientation, giving directions over the real world.

Improved Google Maps navigation

Advertising using AR technology in a London bus shelter.

Unbelievable Bus Shelter

Artists created digital artwork that could only be viewed in a specific Jackson Pollock gallery in MOMA, New York. Visitors who downloaded the MoMar-app could point their phones at paintings and would see them overlaid with digital artwork as a form of protest against elitist art culture.

MoMar

Classic projection mapping using architecture as a canvas for art. The brilliant execution of this show allows for an impression of the opportunities offered by this technology. Static surfaces can be reshaped with light.

Axioma

A clinician creates an image of a patient’s anatomy and then overlays it on the patient. By using a set of special glasses, the clinician can then study the image in real-time and get accurate information before beginning the incision process.

OpenSight: AR for surgical applications

A mobile app projects 3d signs of particular locations of interest - restaurants, bike rental spots, subway entrances, etc. onto the user's screen. The app also measures how far the user is from the particular sight. By downloading packs for different types of locations, the user can expand the amount of information the app relays to them.

AR in London Tube App

A potential concept where a person can make different poses in front of a camera and the database matches that pose with a famous painting/portrait from the history. It creates an interactive experience for a visitor by letting them use their gestures to learn more about art and culture history. In the vast data available for us to grasp, this method makes it a bit easier to connect with and learn.

Google Cultural Institute

Playing pool is all about angles and trajectories. Getting them right is a challenge, especially when you are learning. This AR-enhanced pool table makes that easy for you! The concept involves a projector and a real time camera that create a real-time projection of the path of ball that the player is aiming to strike. This enables the player to learn better or just enjoy an evening of a successful game of pool!

Augmented pool table

Interact with your home without screens, instead with a context-aware projection lamp that works with different surfaces. The lamp enables you to interact more smoothly whilst conducting productive tasks as well as assisting you if there is the need. The application aims to provide you with more interactive and flexible workspace to higher focus and immersion.

HTC Vive AR Lamp (concept)

Twelve large blocks of ice cast off from the Greenland ice sheet are harvested from a fjord outside Nuuk and presented in a clock formation in a prominent public place. The work raises awareness of climate change by providing a direct and tangible experience of the reality of melting arctic ice. Ice Watch has been installed in two locations so far.

Ice Watch

Lifeprint is an instant photo printer that not only allows you to print live videos, but also share those printed videos using Lifeprint’s Augmented Reality Hyperphoto(TM) software app.

Lifeprint

Pre-generated projection combined with live singing performance re-creating scenes from the original animation movie, resulting in a smooth visual “interaction” between the actress and the computer graphics on a theatre stage.

Musical stage effect

Projection mapping is used to enhance existing manuals with indexical reference (pointing out machine parts, for instance). Support technician is available for remote consultation using voice communication, remote pointing and optional video feed from site.

Remote troubleshooting assistance

While in the changing room, familiar sentences constructed by social normativity appear, so the one changing finds themselves confronted with the emotions connected to the norms. The concept includes an engaging platform accessed via QR code right outside of the changing room, inviting you to change the experience for the next one going in there, being part of the movement and empowering who comes after.

Exploration KENZIE: Any body is a great body

Story board is mapped on the display surface. Each frame sequence is activated by hand touch and projects light ripples along with audio narration. It could either project animation on the surface. If ipad or mobile phone is hovered upon each frame, it will augment it by showing animated movie clip. Also it will let user to change backgrounds, add emotions and comment on the frames. It also reveal creative process and artist info if hovered upon the “Process“ area and “Comments“ area will provide a comments form for the visitors to send in.

Augmented storyboard

Context Visually impaired people navigating unfamiliar environments.  Design concept Major objects and walls in the environment are sonified to facilitate navigation and manipulation. Objects announce themselves in voice as the user scans a scene; walls make sounds as they are approached. Wayfinding is provided by repeating “follow me” in the […]

Sonification as a visual prosthesis

By augmenting the missing limb visually and using "myoelectric sensors connected to the stump of the missing limb, the patient could control the virtual arm with brain impulses, exactly as the brain controls limbs in the real world."

Treatment of phantom limb pain

Interact with your desk, more flexible work space. Proper focus on context (interaction details like snapping, overhead lamp) and not on what is possible with technology.

Desktopography: Augmented desk

Interact with sound as a new medium. Visual projections match the wavelength of the sounds and take into account the physical environment. Interacting with the visual projections changes the sound.

Tónandi music app

Stories are embedded in a wall with interesting graphical images drawn on it. A cup shaped listening device is placed on graphic shapes to activate a unique story and light up the drawing with projection mapping. People can record own stories and leave at the wall.

Hidden Stories

Augmented reality game where users create, customize and grow their own virtual creatures and interact with them on daily basis.Victor Weber wears this "nano retina technology" in his eyes and through that he plays with his beast and his little girl Anna plays with her pet Blooby.

Strange Beasts

Synapses consists of interactive visualization program. The program projects on the floor and walls of room making it alive depending on how visitors move, activate sound and light.

Synapses

Navigate the slopes, record videos and take pictures and interact with fellow riders, even play games.

RideOn: AR ski goggles

Use your smartphone to catch digital Pokémon's that can appear in your surroundings. It has an AR mode that lets you see the Pokémon placed on the physical environment through the camera and get easier to catch.

Pokémon Go

You connect with the person that you are going to meet up with. By approving to share your physical connection and through projections on the floor you will be guided to your destination of choice.

Personal wayshowing

Computer graphics are generated in real-time based on the dancer's movements and projected onto the stage.

Interactive scenography

Making interior design more accessible through augmented display.

IKEA Place

A designated wall in your home where you display your personal belongings and memories is also a place for a window into your distant family’s living space. As you approach the wall and start interacting with the person on the other side, the projection view expands and takes up the whole wall.

Domestic co-presence

Passage leading towards Stadsmuseum Norrkoping has large displays of old factory pictures. If the reality is enhanced by cranking sounds of factory tools, digital graphics as short movie clips activated on interaction within close proximity, projected pattern appears and form illuminated floral scroll. Factory chimney blows puff of smoke cloud as visitor interacts within the zone.

Augmented facade

Mapping or shaping a surface in three dimensions with dynamic visual (and audio?) feedback.

AR Sandbox (UCLA)

Building an augmented school gymnasium for technology-assisted teaching.

Future gym

Everything is automated with different sensing technologies and digital controls. Almost no physical contact between the home and the people living in it. Feels like a 1990s notion of "smart" homes. Today, smart could mean other things, such as helping reduce energy consumption.

Smart Home or Egotistical Fantasy

A novel musical instrument.

Reactable DJ

If you don't have a green thumb, feel with your hands how your plant is doing.

How is your plant?

A camera monitors a section of a greenhouse and feeds the images to a system capable of determining if the plants are healthy or not. Currently there are for example sensors to automatically tell if the plants are too dry but this takes in the whole plants' appearance, including diseased leaves etc. If a section is deemed to have unhealthy plants, the light changes in that area to make the caretakers aware of the problem without having to go look at a terminal or getting intrusive alerts.

The Plant Monitor

Context switching is very costly from a cognitive point of view, however especially in open office settings, it is hard to know when someone is in the middle of something or if it's OK to ask them questions. Here is an indicator light, showing if someone can be disturbed or not. The light can show different colours indicating "busyness level". It can either be controlled manually or linked to applications on your computer.

Office availability indicator

A 250 m long, 30 m wide screen is placed at the center of the shopping mall. It serves several purposes at the same time; architectural concept binding the space together with entertainment, information, and illumination elements.

Velarium

When you approach your fridge it becomes transparent, letting you peek inside without opening the door. Additional information about the products is displayed making you aware of what has been automatically ordered, expiration dates, or food that has been “reserved” for Sunday dinner.

Transparent fridge door

The use of smells and temperature changes in a space or objects, can greatly enhance the atmosphere of the space and thereby the experience of the people in it.

Smells and temperature to set the atmosphere

"SkyView brings stargazing to everyone. Simply point your iPhone, iPad, or iPod at the sky to identify stars, constellations, planets, satellites, and more!"

SkyView

This idea intends to use projections to communicate information about sustainability topics at intended places. The images below show one idea on how to communicate a message of 'water is precious, don't keep it running', on the basin where sticker is not suitable at all.

Projecting sustainability concerns

Signage information is projected on walls and other architectural surfaces in ways that blend as deeply as possible with the physical surface materials.

Projected signage

A printed advertisement that sparks curiosity. Using a phone a magazine reader can view the (missing) advertised shoe from different angles (and even switch between different shoe designs.) The printed advertisement goes beyond its two dimensions and comes alive through a screen.

Augmented advertisement for print

Moving image elements are projected on a façade in a way that relates to its physical features and complemented with a musical soundtrack.

Performative facade projection

Pre-generated projection is combined with choreography such that the dancer appears to interact with the computer graphics.

Hybrid scenography

Choreographed hybrid performance with human actor, physical objects and virtual form on "the principles of magic."

Box

The use of the light balloons helps to redraw and help us imagine history for those of us who were never able to see it. These light balloons in a way help create a design space through the whole city that can experienced different ways from different places. For instance the experience and scale of the space would be thought of differently from a viewer from an airplane window and also someone walking through the streets.

Berlin Wall 25th Anniversary light display

Changing/enhancing an experience (drawing specifically on high initial emotional arousal, and on multimodal synergy).

High arousal augmentation

The singer's dress looked like it integrated in the stage. Animations were projected onto the dress and the stage and it changed the ambience according to the mood of the song.

Projection on stage

Context A traveler in a taxi, or on any other public commuting ride to get familiar with a new place. Design concept While you are taking a taxi towards your destination and you are casually looking through the window, relevant information will be displayed. Experiential qualities and related concepts Hybrid, […]

Augmented car window

As a simulation of events following a major accident is unfolded by an instructor, the participants in training manipulate the physical model of a hospital ward with representations of patients and of medical care resources.

Implicit coordination in a training simulation

Explore a city and find hidden treasures marked and left behind by other Geocachers.

Geocaching

Using responsive thermo-bimetals that "breathe" to heat or cool a building, Doris Sung is making architecture more lifelike and environmentally friendly.

Buildings that breathe

Information that changes over time and that is peripheral most of the time is aggregated into the color of a desk lamp that sits in the periphery.

Ambient Orb

By integrating displays thoughtful into cities and matching their purpose with exactly the needed solutions, they become ambient. Not using (moving) screens supports the ambient character.

Ads with a purpose

Redefining touch interaction as more of a living organism than a piece of hidden technology.

Membrane: Screen made of fabric

Enhancing a simulated training situation with a projected environmental context and providing real-time feedback regarding to users actions, in order to improve the learning experience.

Interactive CPR Simulator

Energy consumption of objects, that can be perceived in an 'ambient display' through light representing and making visible the actual flow of electricity.

The Power Aware Cord

Overlaying a suitably abstracted rendering of people's traces gives a sense of where the action is. Data from your friends yields a socially grounded heat map, whereas a broad data collection provides more of a general overview.

Urban social navigation (a.k.a. footprints)

A room-sized paint app featuring interactive games such as catch-the-dot.

Paint-O-Rama

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MSc Design, 2018

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