Context: HYBRID is to do with connected products and services. It is an exploratory project based at the Institute of Design at AHO.
Goals: To develop knowledge about the increasing connection between physical products and digital services. To explore products and research in this area and to build a platform for future projects that contribute to practice and research.
Central research questions:How can we assess and explore through design processes the potential for future product/service hybrids? What is the potential for creating a new research and development projects with IxD stakeholders in the area?
Analytical frames: Product, interaction and service design. Foresight
Methods:Workshop-based ideas generation and analysis leading to the proposal of new project areas and potential innovation.
Deliverables: Workshop report, new project areas, research project applications.
Duration:1 October 2009 – 30 May 2010.
Funding: IxD Network.
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Designing the web in the world, presentation by Timo Arnall at IXDA Interaction 10 Conference, Savannah, Georgia, 6 February 2010.
A model of user experience in networked products, presentation at the VERDIKT programme conference, Oslo, 4 November 2009.
Designing from the web to the world, at the Designing Mobile Experiences session at Barcelona Design Week by Timo Arnall, 29 October 2009.