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TOUCH
Digital device to interact with a book.
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Solution

The design –touch- reduces the interaction between the analog book on the one side and the digital content on the other side to the control of intuitive finger movements.

What is the core principle of your idea?

Reading is particularly known to demand a child’s attention. To facilitate this process children use their own finger in a manner which prevents them from getting lost in the text and to ensure that they stay in the correct line. -touch- not only enables a touch gestures control, it also makes scanning an easy process by just touching the code in the book with the device.

Can your idea be applied to different formats (in a bookstore, at a trade fair, at a conference)?

Yes.

Would it be possible to turn your idea into a reality, or at least create a prototype of it, at short notice, i.e. by the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2014?

Yes. Mockup.

What do you estimate the costs for the prototype or the final implementation of your idea to be?

-on request-

Comments

DavidOlbrich
DavidOlbrichguide
almost 6 years ago

Dear Julian, Miriam and Christopher,

Here we have a great Team apparently with professional background!

Your draft looks clear and well visualized, you came up with a conceptual composition.

If I get you right, your design -touch- enables to watch digital videos, print out certain contents and listen to audiofiles on external hardware in connection with a real book and based on its story/ content?!

Would be good to get this core principle of your great idea just in the front and not in the tiny last sentence of your picture :)

Anyway, I often would be grateful have one of those instruments in a library. But I guess for every book there must be an own production of many QR?! Codes and its links with contents right? This might comes along with an own online library?

You already know the Fluid Media Group for sure, they also created a finger-reader: http://fluid.media.mit.edu/

Apparently your concept is a delightful work, but I'm unconvinced if this gets the point of the brief and if its not instead a new way to handle with litterae humaniores?

What do you think?

Best, David

JeskoStoetzer
Jesko Stoetzer
almost 6 years ago

Dear Team!

thanks for your submission!

• Interesting concept! • Actually your concept puts the task the other way round. Here you show how a real book can interact with digital media – the task of this project is actually how digital content can be made visible and tangible in a physical environments. • Maybe your concept would need a tweak to match this task better?

What do you think?

Yours Jesko

RK_341
RK_341
almost 6 years ago

I like it!

szymonwit
szymonwit
almost 6 years ago

Fine concept!

wycich83
Piotr Wycichowski
almost 6 years ago

like it! :]]