Actface Rhythm: Mobile Interface design

Act face is a mobile device interface designed by “Teamlab” to create new contents using meta information of users behaviors.!
Some user behaviors like:

  • You become addicted to your mobile device, As its screen changes and as you use it more, it adapts to your situation.
  • You feel good touching your mobile device, Simply pressing the keys is fun in itself, And you keep wanting more. You start to enjoy the interaction with your mobile device, And it changes the purpose of using the phone, just touching the phone brings you enjoyment.
  • How many times will you open it. To see if any changes have occurred Will you ever be able to let go of your phone?…
  • You feel good touching your mobile phone, everyday use of your phone become a rhythm, a phone with a surface of rhythmic ink painting.

Concept:
Actface Rhythm is not a phone designed to produce music, but a phone that produces an internal rhythm, a moving image that is produced through the everyday use and the rhythm of pressing the keys. We regularly press keys to make a call, and to send a mail, and we considered this to be a natural rhythm. We designed actface Rhythm’s interface to produce an ink painting world that is created by the user, and as the phone is used the ink painting continues to develop and move with the rhythm you create.

“This is not just a new screen design, By adding a secondary purpose in using the phone, we have experimented in a new style of interaction between human and mobile devices.”

Very interesting concept !!

vivek

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FITC Mobile: Flash Lite 4.0 couple of new announcements

Flash lite 4.0

Via Mark Doherty from Adobe gave a sneak peek of upcoming Flash mobile at FITC, 2009.

Some exciting announcements are:

  • The new upcoming version of Flash Lite 4.0. while Flash 10 for devices is also in the process.
  • According to Mark, Flash Lite 4.0 supports ActionScript 3, and it is a browser plug-in (i.e. not standalone player). Same for Flash Player 10 for devices – a browser plug-in (in his slide it was showing 10.1 in Device Central 3). AIR for mobile is the standalone player.
  • Flash Lite 4.0 is for slower, less powerful and memory-constraint devices, and Flash 10 is for more powerful devices, possibly with hardware graphics acceleration.
  • Mark also shown Device Central 3. It supports some hardware emulation such as accelerometer and geolocation. Custom device profiles can also be created easily in Device Central 3.
  • SWFPack, a mobile packager (created in AIR) for S60 3rd edition and up, and Windows Mobile 5 & 6. It builds deployment bits (.sis and .cab) for the two platforms with just a few clicks.

Source from Dave yang.

vivek