The Home Health Horoscope prints out a daily, automatically generated “horoscope” for the home that reflects domestic activities, based on data from half a dozen bespoke sensor assemblages.
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Projects
Our work can be understood as a long-term research programme investigating alternative values for everyday technologies. Nonetheless, projects are the fundamental building blocks of our research. We pursue projects that are formed around particular situations for design, rather than particular forms of technology or theoretical starting points. We have worked with cloistered nuns, small islands, care homes, garden wildlife, residential streets, and energy conservation groups to name a few. We build technologies that respond to these situations, designing research products that may be one-offs for individuals to live with, batch-produced for groups, or self-build DIY designs for anybody to make at home. Here are some of our projects:
Video Window
A video camera mounted on a ten-metre fishing pole is attached to the roof of one’s house, with the view displayed on a screen indoors which is always left on.
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The History Tablecloth is a device that augments a kitchen or dining room table, featuring an illuminating covering and a system of load sensors that slip under the legs.
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The Drift Table is an electronic coffee table that allows people to float slowly over the British landscape from the comfort of their own home.
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The Key Table signals people’s moods when they enter the home. Depending on how forcefully they set their belongings on it – keys, phone, loose change, etc. – a mechanical picture frame swings out of kilter to signal their emotions and warn other household inhabitants. The table works by recording the readings from load sensors […]
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