There's some rather lovely work here by Marco Triverio, an interaction designer at IDEO, playing around with (and disrupting) the asynchronous nature of much non-verbal communication over mobile devices. Feel Me experiments with different ways of creating a 'sweet, playful connection with the person on the other side'. I'm quite taken with some of the ideas here, particularly the thought about creating more real-time physical connections through digital means, and the far more inventive ways than we have at our disposal right now to express feeling through non-verbal gestures over digital devices. It certainly makes things like emoticons look awfully clunky.
HT @rosiesiman for the link
Brilliant.
Posted by: Rob Mortimer | May 11, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Pair uses a similar idea with its 'thumb kiss'. http://trypair.com/
I'm not convinced these kinds of opportunities for 'connection' will be embraced by anyone other than couples & daters (hello, rsvp.com?!), but I'd love to be wrong + see it work in unexpected instances.
just an aside...these things always remind me of the ipad game for pigs. http://eater.com/archives/2011/12/16/ipad-game-turns-hipad-app-lets-humans-and-real-pigs-play-gamesumans-into-entertainment-for-pigs.php
Posted by: hayley | May 15, 2012 at 10:24 AM