PLANTS
STBY was the coordinator of a creative workshop for the European funded pilotproject PLANTS. In Patras (Greece) an international group of experts from various fields (academy, design, enginering)...
View ArticleNWO-MES
NWO is the Dutch national council for scientific research. NWO-MES is the department that funds research on Society and the Electronic Highway. STBY did an expert review of their website and advised on...
View ArticleNew media in everyday life
It’s tempting to make a short manifesto of this post, but I’ll save that for later ;-). This blog is just a daily notebook for things related to our research into new media and everyday life. Have a...
View ArticleVideo Clips
Do you recognise the feeling of creating a live video clip on the fly when you go through a city or landscape with your music in your ears? Music can be a very strong guider of our perspective. When...
View ArticleCitiTag
STBY participated in two pilots of the multi-player electronic tagging game CitiTag, developed by Yanna Vogiazou from the Open University and HP labs / Mobile Bristol. The experiences of the players...
View ArticleStorage and clutter
Two design documentaries on how people store and display things around the house. Produced by STBY in collaboration with the interaction design research team at the Royal College of Art, as part of...
View ArticleMediamediators vlog
A video weblog (vlog) of the creation, adoption and appropriation of interactive objects connected to personal computers in the home. Produced by STBY in collaboration with Tobie Kerridge and Andy...
View ArticleA decade of web use
by Geke van Dijk. Presented at the conference A decade of web design in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005. (PDF, 21.8 MB) No related posts.
View ArticleDesign documentaries with heart patients
For Philips Medical Systems in Seatle, STBY produced three design documentaries that portray the daily lives of heart patients in London. These documentaries were made to complement the paper-based...
View ArticleInvestigating users out of the box: exploring multi-channel consumer behaviour
by Geke van Dijk. Presented at SIGCHI2006 conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (PDF in Dutch, 3.6 MB) No related posts.
View ArticleDesign Research for Service Innovation
Our creative research projects connect organisations with the lives and experiences of their customers. This helps our clients to innovate their service offering, making it more valuable for both their...
View ArticleUser-driven innovation
Just finished a chapter for a book on knowledge sharing in the creative industry. The book ‘Uncommon Ground: Creative Encounters between Sectors and Disciplines’ will be published by Bis Publishers in...
View ArticleInnovation Reading Circle 02
The second meeting of the Innovation Reading Circle was again very interesting. This time the theme was User-Led Innovation.¬†The books we read and discussed were: ‘Democratising Innovation‘ by Eric...
View ArticleInnovation processes
Jeremy Myerson, the director of InnovationRCA, presented his views on innovation processes during a talk organised by the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre. He described three phases in this process: the...
View ArticleWho wants tomorrow’s papers?
The launch event of the Innovation Forum London was themed ‘Who wants tomorrow’s papers?’. It addressed the synergy between online and offline newspapers and asked the question what we can¬† learn from...
View ArticleBottom-up innovation
Rob van Kranenburg presented his thoughts on the increasingly strained relationship between formal and informal networks. He showed a rich collection of examples of bottom-up online and sensor-based...
View ArticleInclude 2007
From 1 to 4 April the RCA hosted the Include 2007 conference, organised by the Helen Hamlyn Centre. About 150 people from all over the world gathered to present and discuss inclusive design projects....
View ArticleFour Corners of London
The exhibition Four Corners presents a series of interesting multi-media portraits of people living in East, West, North and South London. The portraits are made by the local residents showing their...
View ArticleCritical Design
The exhibition Designing Critical Design in Z33  (Hasselt, Belgium) gives an excellent overview of the works by Jurgen Bey, Martí Guixé and Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby. They all produce works...
View ArticleBeing Here
On 11 April Caroline Nevejan successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Amsterdam. She is a good friend of ours and we are really proud of her. The title of her dissertation is...
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