Rob Tieben @ Work

Curious-action: eliciting curiosity

Design-research project on eliciting repetitive curiosity in public spaces. This explorative research study focussed on curiosity: how can we make passers-by curious, and invite them for a short ‘walk-through-and-use’ interaction. As a research tool and proof-of-concept, six interactive speakers have been implemented: modular devices that respond to user activity (e.g. walking by or waving) with different sorts of auditory output.

Publications:
  • Curiosity and Interaction: making people curious through interactive systems - Proceedings of BHCI 2011 (best long paper award)
  • Interfaces - Magazine of BCS Interaction Group - autumn 2011 issue; article about Best Long Paper
Exhibitions:
  • ID’10 2010 - Dutch Design Week exhibition
Awards:
  • Young Talent Social Design Award [nominated] - shared 2nd price, design competition of all Eindhoven Design student projects
  • British HCI 2011 conference - best long paper award

Touch Me Dare – bodily music

TouchMeDare is an interactive music installation that elicits exploration and meetings with strangers through mutual touch. Bodily contact (on both sides of the canvas) activates music samples, enabling an explorative search through music and intimate cooperation.
TouchMeDare has been successfully implemented and evaluated on the Lowlands festival (55.000 visitors), and on various other occasions.

Publications:
  • Meeting Duet; Challenging People into a Body Language of Meeting – Proceedings of DeSForM 2006
  • Meeting by Moving, Mediated through Music – Journal of Urban Computing and Mobile Devices 2007
  • Contact Through Canvas, An Entertaining Encounter – Journal of Pers. and Ubiq. Computing 2009
  • IDzine – TU/e ID news letter
  • Daily Paradise – Lowlands festival program guide 2007
Exhibitions:
  • Design United 2006 – Dutch Design Week Exhibition (Meeting Duet prototype)
  • Design United 2007 – Dutch Design Week Exhibition (TouchMeDare prototype)
  • DeSForM conference 2006
  • Lowlands festival 2007 (55.000 visitors)
  • TU/e open house 2007
  • Opening /d.search-labs 2006
  • Inaugural lecture Prof. Overbeeke 2007
  • V2 Test_LAB multimodal
Original project team:
Koen van Boerdonk, Eva Deckers, Hugo Nagtzaam, Jesper Schwachofer, Rob Tieben
Continued by:
Koen van Boerdonk & Rob Tieben
Client / Project Coaches:
Eric van Eerdenburg, Mojo Concerts / Sietske Klooster, Elise van den Hoven

Make me move - lighting tiles

MakeMeMove is an interactive playground that invites young children (4-12) to be physically active. This modular playground of 64 interactive tiles features several games, such as tagging, ‘skip-the-line’ and ‘fill the floor’.
MakeMeMove has been evaluated and exhibited on various occasions, entertaining hundreds of children and adults – and motivating them to be physically active in a playful way.

Publications:
  • Cursor 2005 – TU/e news paper
  • Telegraaf 2005 – large Dutch national news paper
  • IDzine 2005 – TU/e ID news letter
  • SBS6 television news 2006 – major Dutch television network
  • various TNO publications (client)
  • various national and international blog items
Exhibitions:
  • DesignUnited 2006
  • TNO Sport Exhibition 2006
  • Symposium FieldLab Eindhoven 2006
  • Sport & Technology conference 2006
  • Nederland Innovatief conference 2007
Design team:
Lisa op ‘t Hof, Ivo Stuyfzand, Balasz Szekely, Pieter van Wegberg, Jurgen Westerhoff, Rob Tieben
Client / Project Coach:
Tinus Jongert, TNO Quality of Life / Peter Joore