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The Interaction Design Pilot Year hosted an open lab throughout the 2-day Reboot conference. The idea was for students to act as consultants//designers/prototyping gurus/partners on any random ideas that conference participants wanted to share. Any ideas produced are open source and were displayed on a big wall at the venue and published in the Reboot book and on the website.

This was the first time Reboot tried this open lab approach. It was an experiment but almost immediately a good synergy was struck and a dialogue between the conference participants and the students evolved naturally. The lab was located smack-bang in the middle of the venue, so in line with the theme for this years conference - it was action stations from the word go.

The following pages are a diary of our Reboot experience.

Interaction Design Pilot Year Website: www.ciid.dkds.dk

Interaction Design Pilot Year Portfolio: www.dkds.ciid.dk

Contact: [email protected]

Text and photos by Ujjval Panchal, Alie Rose and Eilidh Dickson


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Nina ChristoffersenExpertise: User Centered Design

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Nina’s road to the Interaction Design Pilot Year has not followed the most logical path. After training as a market economist she traveled to the UK to complete a Bachelors in International Management. She then returned to Copenhagen to study for a Masters in Digital Design and Communication at the IT-University, specialising in user centered design. Nina has experience of using qualitative research methods such as user testing, focus groups and target group analysis, and has also done concept development for web applications. She is completely hooked on reative teamwork, idea/concept development, visual working methods and international work environments.

Nina’s Core Skills-User Research-Problem Framing-Brainstorming-Concept Development

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Adam LittleExpertise: Digital Media Design


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Adam studied Digital Media at Philadelphia’s Drexel University. Since graduating in 2005 he has spent his time as a website developer working between New York and Philadelphia. Adam worked primarily with nonprofit clients using open source web technology both professionally and as a volunteer. He has pursued the creative side of interactive media and technology by participating in workshops and classes at places such as Eyebeam, Harvestworks and ITP. The majority of 2007 was spent traveling and working in Japan and Southeast Asia where he grew vegetables and took care of sheep at the bottom of Mt. Fuji, worked as the in house digital media

expert for a community development organization in Southern Thailand and helped a grassroots NGO in Cambodia launch a website for their sustainable tourism venture. Adam is the youngest of three boys and a soon-to-be uncle. His family lives in Rochester, N.Y.

Adam’s Core Skills-Scenarios and Brainstorming-Video Prototyping-Web Design-Experience Prototyping

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Alice PintusExpertise: Product Design


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Alice studied at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her final thesis focused on how correct information comprehension and effective interaction with public spaces can play a crucial role in emergency situations. After graduating, she stayed on at the Politecnico, as teaching assistant at the Final Synthesis design studio where she worked on light and interaction design projects in collaboration with professor Giovanna Piccinno. Since 2004 she’s been working as a designer, dealing with light, furniture and information/graphic design. She has also been a contemporary art researcher and is a member of the ISOLA ART CENTER, a precarious and independent art centre with a strong alternative social impact, based in Milan. She also collaborates on Museo Aero Solar – a collective artwork initiated by Tomas Saraceno – which is a flying museum in the form of a solar energy powered hot air balloon. She has always been very interested in the intersection between the virtual world and its concrete representation – this is the reason she is studying at CIID

Alice’s Core Skills-User Experience -Concept Generation -Re use, Recycle, Reduce -Rapid Prototyping

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Ane Eline SørensenExpertise: Visual Communication


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Eline has a degree in Visual Communication from the Danish Design School, with a focus on digital and interaction design. She does conceptual and artistic work within visual interactive innovation with a strong emphasis on conveying knowledge through social design. She has done a lot of installation pieces and exhibition design. Eline’s background is in creative entrepreneurship with a bachelor degree from the KaosPilots, an education with focus on creative and innovative project management. From 1996 to 2003 she worked as a freelancer in the film and television industry, as a 1st AD, director and creative producer within animation, documentary and fiction.

Ane Eline’s Core Skills-Visualisation -Sketching and Brainstorming -Conceptualising -Video Prototyping -Experience Prototyping


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Ashwin RajanExpertise: Information Design


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Ashwin has taken a break from a 6-year design and writing career to join the Interaction Design Pilot Year. After graduating in psychology and sociology, he found himself compulsively attracted to user-centered and interaction design projects. As well as working as a writer and researcher, he has worn rather more ambiguous hats such as ‘information architect’ and ‘instructional designer’. Becoming increasingly involved in interactive media, he has participated and led projects in information technology, industrial and product design, learning, development, and consulting. Throughout the course of this journey, Ashwin has worked in both India and in the US and is

enthusiastic about working in other cultures globally. His leading interests as an interaction designer are the social and cultural aspects of technology, user-driven learning and design methods & processes. He considers himself an autodidact, and loves to play the roles of clarifierand integrator. Concepts around future societies, systems thinking, perception, and human/information relationships, among others, are an instant draw. With a little more time at hand, Ash finds himself returning to photography, and recently, penning the first

pages of a graphic novel.

Ashwin’s Core Skills-Information Architecture -Instructional Design -Service Design -Scenarios -Concept Generation


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Erlend KyteExpertise: Communication Design

With one foot in the world of art and design and one in the field of communication systems and accessibility, Erlend works with the weld and glue that exists between technology, social/cultural phenomenon and visual communication, in both the physical and metaphysical realm. With a background as a graphic designer, an Arctic ranger and a Bachelor in Communication Design, Erlend recently spent one year in Japan researching how technology and spirituality can coexist without conflict and how to better close the digital divide between different age and social demo- graphics. Erlend believes that beauty, experience, accessibility and purpose should all be important

ingredients in the making of interaction cake.

Erlend’s Core Skills-Visual brainstorming -Scenario building -Storyboarding -Video prototyping -Persona creation/


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Francesco MondelliExpertise: Multimedia Design

Francesco started playing with communication when he was young with stylish and purely formal graffiti. He soon realised that there was a lot more to say about his social context, its controversial elements and the relationship between man and environment; so he attended the

IUAV design university where he learned the tools to be able to communicate those paradoxes, his critiques and alternative point of view.

While studying Multimedia & Visual Communication in Venice, Francesco learned about communication and social-responsibility through new technologies, media and classic graphic design – his final project was an interactive web-based social software. After graduating, he worked for 1-year as web/graphic editor of the Mondadori Books website but his passion for interaction design made him leave Milan and move to Copenhagen to join the Interaction Design Pilot Year. He is interested in ecology, electronic music and computer art & graphics; he usually prints his ideas and drawings on t-shirts. As often as possible, he takes hold of his Vespa and travels around the world.

Francesco’s Core Skills-Brainstorming -Conceptualisation -Future Scenarios -Sketching and Storytelling -Environmentally Friendly profiling


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Jacob Sikker ReminExpertise: Cameras, Lights, Engineering!

Jacob likes hacking, art, people, light, workshops, low-bit music and various types of beautifully geeky stuff. He has a background in visual/performance art and film, which he combines with his newfound skills in engineering. Jacob is the initiator of 8bit klubben, a local Copenhagen hackers collective, producing cultural events, performances, workshops and installations. In May 2008, Jacob opened Mikrogalleriet, a small gallery space in Nørrebro focusing on electric art and creative technology. He hopes that some of the works produced on the Interaction Design Pilot Year could fit in this context and that his Copenhagen 8bit network can somehow

blend into the CIID circle. Jacob enjoys taking strolls with his cat, cooking and making music on his gameboy.

Jacob’s Core Skills-Conceptualisation -Prototyping-Hardware Hacking-8 bit music-Media Art


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JasonHsuExpertise: Architecture

Jason is a Ph.D student in the architecture department at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. The lab he comes from focuses on the smart house and smart city – he looks at interaction design on an architectural and urban scale. Jason has experience of working with

very different kinds of people and as well as architecture, has worked within several disciplines including industrial design and web design. Jason worked at a GIS (geographic information system) company to plan workflow and design the user interface. Recently, he was devoted to working on a local search engine which indexes location related web-pages on a map and has user-friendly mobile phone access. He has written a number of business plans and built highly feasible business models for VC review.

Jason’s Core Skills-Arduino -Brainstorming -Hardware Hack -Rapid Software Prototype -Scenario Design


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Kevin CannonExpertise: Web and Interactive Design

Kevin Cannon is a 28-year old Irish guy, normally based in Dublin, but currently enjoying the delights Copenhagen has to offer. He’s enjoyed playing with things, building stuff and generally making a mess as long as he can remember. When he hit college, he briefly experimented with computer science, before pursuing a degree in multimedia, where he learned quite a little about

quite a lot. After graduation he specialised in web & interactive design, working for a number of web design studios and then working as a freelancer for a year. He is passionate about user interfaces and improving the utility of things. He’s frustrated by the technology we use today and wants to make it better. Although he loves the web, he’s been experimenting with taking his passion away from the screen to more physical situations. The Interaction Design Pilot Year is the next step in this process and he hopes to work with some great people and create some amazing projects over the year.

Kevin’s Core Skills-Information Architecture -UI Wireframes -Flash -Concept analysis & refining


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Marcin IgnacExpertise: Graphics, Programming & Interface Design

Marcin earned a Bachelor’s in Computing Science from Poznan University of Technology. He continued his education in the area of Intelligent Decision Support Systems for 2-years but made the decision to leave after discovering the Intermedia course at Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts where he played with interactive art installations and visualisations. During his studies he worked part-time at Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center as an interface designer and as a freelance graphics designer/programmer. His work has been exhibited twice and he has offers for further collaboration. As a member of the Polish demoscene group DMA, he tries to move pixels in 3d space to the rhythm of electronic music. Constantly looking for inspiration he never refuses to try new interfaces and software, or to develop his own. He perceives himself to be an artist and an engineer rolled in to one, so in his projects he tries to mix his passion for graphics with the art of programming: “I don’t do things that can’t be seen”.

Marcin’s Core Skills-Data Visualisation -Programming -UI design -Interactive Installations -Web Design


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Mimi SonExpertise: Conceptualisation & Interaction Design

Mimi studied Interaction Design at the Landsdown Centre of Middlesex University in London. She has been teaching Interactive Storytelling at Kaywon School of Art and Design (Korea) for six years and has been working as an art director in her own studio. Her artwork has been exhibited in Seoul, Tokyo and Barcelona. She is currently researching emotional interaction for future life and the effects of technology from a creative approach. She is interested in exploring her surroundings with her eyes shining before creating something interactive and funny based on narrative snippets from her life. She loves to play with art and nature as well as technology, which all lead her into a creative world.

Mimi’s Core Skills-Physical Computing -User Research-Storytelling -Graphic Design -Persona creation/profiling


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Nunzia CocoExpertise: Industrial and Communication Design

Nunzia is interested in data visualisation, interactive installations and anything that connects real and virtual worlds – such as social networks and info-graphics. After completing a Bachelors in Industrial Design at IUAV (University of Venice) with a multisen-

sorial thesis, Nunzia decided to remain at the same university to undertake a Masters in Visual and Multimedia Communication where her interaction design thesis focused on collaborative sketching. Nunzia was a visual designer for the TWBA/EPG advertising agency in Lisbon and for a fashion and interiors company in Italy. She has worked with a team of specialists on exhibition design projects in Milan, for the national art gallery in Rome and on a number of editorial projects. She spent two years working with Professor Giovanni Anceschi on the Basic Design course at the Industrial Design University.

Nunzia’s Core Skills-Methodical and Analytical -Game Theory -Group Dynamics -Paper Prototype -Data Visualisation


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Siddharth MuthyalaExpertise: Product and Furniture Design

Siddharth (Sid) comes from India and has a furniture and product design background. When he realised that there was a world to ‘Interaction Design’ beyond video games (which he loves!) he got so excited that he promptly decided to study Interaction Design. This decision lead him to CIID, Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked in areas broadly ranging from Interaction Design, Product design and Service design. He enjoys working in diverse, creative and multicultural teams. Also, he enjoy being deeply motivated by things that have no immediate meaning to his life, Wikipedia helps him along that road.. But now he is really,really excited about being in Denmark and to learn something new!Expertise: Furniture & Product Design

Siddharth’s Core Skills-Prototyping -Concept Development -Scenario Building -Sketching -Toys and Play


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Tobias ToftExpertise: Programming and Electronics

Tobias is close to completing a Masters in Design Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and has taken a year off from university to join the Interaction Design Pilot Year. He has always been interested in technical things like computers and electronics but also product design, typography and graphical design. In his spare time he is trying to become a better photographer and runner – he should also be trying to get better at drawing and playing the guitar, but for some reason he has not been practicing as much as he intended to. The reason might be that he is spending too much time reading Wikipedia articles about things he does not really need to know anything about. Like for instance, when he recently spent a whole Sunday reading about prime numbers and cryptography, for no other reason than that his curiosity forced him to do it!

Tobias’s Core Skills-Electronics and Programming -GUIs -Visualisation -Tangible Interfaces -Idea Generation


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Ujjval PanchalExpertise: Architecture

Ujjval is an architect and a lifetime student of architecture – he studied in the School of Archi- tecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Over the last six years he has been working with various architects and designers mainly with Arya Architects and later with NP Flint – Experience Design Lab. For the last two years, Ujjval has been practicing with three other fellow architects in Ahmedabad. A major part of his interest comes from working with various alternative materials & crafts, new design methods and mix of new technologies/software.

Being an architecture student, he has always been keen to inquire how design and technology can influence human experiences with objects, spaces or environments. In his pursuit of spaces that thrive, come alive, and setup a dialogue with people and environment, he decided to join the Interaction Design Pilot Year to explore and improve his skills and to create beautiful experiences using various materials and technology. He sees interaction design as a culmina-tion of his various interests and it is a big opportunity and challenge for him to use interaction design to make intelligent environments that set-up an active dialogue and experience; but also

a step forward to be able to create sustainable solutions.

Ujjval’s Core Skills-Physical Prototyping -Model Making -Brainstorming -Sketching


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Yves ChenExpertise: Digital Media Design

Yves graduated in information communication with a focus on digital media design. He has a visual communication design background and loves everything to do with art. During his Master period, he focused on interactive and digital art, interaction design, emotional design, and critical design. In his opinion, interaction design is a dynamic and innovative field focused on designing beautiful experience for users and it can reflect contemporary and future human life. His desire is to undertake excellent projects that truly touch people.

Yves’s Core Skills-User Interface -Wearable Technology -Interactive Art, -Visual Communication Design -Photoshop


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Eilidh DicksonExpertise: Service Design

Eilidh graduated with a degree in Innovative Product Design from the University of Dundee. During her studies she became very excited about the field of service design. She uses design thinking and research methods to critically assess the needs of people to create user-centered experiences that will have a positive impact on our society. On completion of her undergraduate degree she started exploring service design within the public sector and soon became fascinated with the idea of designing with the user rather than for them, harnessing their creativity and knowledge to co-create ideas. For the last year she worked as an intern at London based service design agency “thinkpublic” and ran a serviceimprovement project at Wigan Renal Dialysis Unit in the UK. Eilidh strongly believes that the use

of existing and emerging technologies can have a huge impact on our lives and she is super excited to be on the Interaction Design Pilot Year so she can learn how to apply technology in a magical way to peoples lives!

Eilidh’s Core Skills-Scenarios -Service Design -Concept Development -Paper Prototyping -Experience Prototyping


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Alie RoseExpertise: Communications

Originally from a concept design background, Alie has worked on a portfolio of projects covering interaction design, marketing, innovation and business & technology research.Before moving to Denmark to work at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, Alie was a project manager at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy) where she was responsible for managing Applied Dreams (client facing innovation workshops), exhibitions and communications.She took the drastic step to work in academia after living and working in London, where she managed design-centred projects and events for a wide range of clients. Her approach towards managing projects and communications focuses on people, team-building and open networking.

Alie’s Core Skills-Communication-Project Managment-PR-Open Networking


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After a great on-stage introduction by Erlend and Tobias, the day started with some pre-planning, putting up our profiles and setting up the lab. Armed with markers, post-its (every interaction designers favourite tool) and a team of 19 interaction designers, the lab worked non-stop to help people drive their ideas forward.

Over the course of the day, the diversity of people approaching the team was really broad. They had brilliant starting points within a wide variety of industries and it was great to pool our knowledge together to help them. We discussed ideas ranging from multi-touch surfaces, to solar powered wifi bikes; rapid prototyping for children, to video concepts for a Danish language consultan.t

The first group of people to get snapped up were Erlend, Eline, Francesco and Nunzia who had a two hour session, working for Thomas Antvorskov Krag who has developed a bike with a solar

powered wireless internet connection attached. During the session they generated and developed concepts for new services connected to the idea. Why have a wifi connection on a bike? Where could it be used?...and what would be some interesting service design concepts?

The final idea was ‘Park = Free Wifi’ - which works a bit like an ice-cream van in that the cycle rings it’s bell to generate interest and followers, before leading them to the park. This creates a natural but mobile meeting point, encouraging small ad-hoc communities to form in public spaces. The students briefed Thomas to come up with a theme tune so they can build an experience prototype on day 2. Thinking about initial stakeholders, the library would be a good partner as it would be an excellent way to expand the library to an outdoor space.

Next up were Marcin, Adam, Yves and Kevin who worked with Espen Fjord, Head of Development at Gladsaxe Public Libraries. He was interested in creating touch screen interfaces to enable foreigners and immigrants to access news from their home country. They discussed ways to prototype the ideas and drive the project further.

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Also connected to ideas surrounding transportation; we worked with Chris from Meadow Networks. Chris is an MIT alum working on concepts to submit to the USA government. The goal of her project is to develop frameworks and concepts surrounding the future of transport. During the session we created sketches that focused on the user experience. We also discussed how specific scenarios and video prototyping can be used as tools to address her design challenge.

While this was all going on, Alice was make lots of children happy, by putting her skills as a product designer to good use by helping them create rapid prototypes of drawings they had produced. There should be some 3D bugs running around the conference very soon!

Throughout the day Mimi and Tobias worked on a few projects together. The first one was with a Danish Language consultant who wanted advice on re-designing an online platform she uses to show elements of her work in video

format. They gave advice on how to make the graphic design and layout fun and engaging for people to use. The second team they worked with was very different...they helped one of the organisers from Palomas to organise a space they are using for a two week camp in Berlin. During the camp they will conduct creative workshops and brainstorm new ideas to take action. They also gave some tips on how to use video prototypes as a promotional tool to promote the camp in the run up towards it.

Kevin had the opportunity to consult Joao from Portugal who is currently changing jobs and moving into a new role where he was planning and improving user flows on a large commercial site. Kevin & Joao had an interesting discussion about wireframing techniques, how to use questionnaires as part of the design process to communicate with the client and about design communication.

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Over the two days of the conference there was a special Kintergarden for children of the participants. In the Kindergarden there was lots of activities for the children, inclusing a sketching owrkshop and a Nintendo Wii. Sid from CIID was also entertaining some children (and adults!) by demoing his final pilot year project. The game he has designed allows children to run about talking photographs as part of set challenges. It was great to see how engaged the children were by it and with technology.




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Just before lunch, Ujjval and Eilidh took a break from documenting the Open Lab at Reboot and spent time working with Adam to generate ideas for Ole Høegh Hansen who is developing web based concepts aimed at improving work flow, motivation and achieving goals within a work place. During the session they facilitated a brainstorming session and came up with some practical solutions, as well as some rather more crazy ones!

The final session to happen before a well earned lunch break was with Martin from Twingly.com and Martin from The school of Architecture in Aarhus. The two Martins came to generate ideas on how to build an iPhone app to encourage silence. We suggested to that we go back to the root question and brainstorm that. We asked ‘how might we encourage people to be more silent?’ and held a one minute silence together before engaging in a rapid brainstorming session with ideas around silence booths, social contracts, silent areas in airports and lots of other ideas. We left them with a big bunch of ideas and challenged them to take action by creating a silent experiment later in the day. Four hours later, the students went to find Martin from Twingly to ask if he’d done anything (he hadn’t ;) so they helped him create some silence there and then. They gathered 20 people for a spontaneous silence which was signified by the participants touching a wall.




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Adam & Mimi worked with Andreas Lloyd who has a food co-op called KFAX. Andreas wanted to find ways to communicate his concept. Video prototyping was the focus of interest and they demonstrated how video can be a excellent tool to express service design concepts. Andreas was concerned that his editing skills were not up to making a film - but even if this is too complex for some non-interaction designers, making a storyboard really helps work out what the important aspects of the service are.

Elfried Klarenbeek from Plain spoke to Ane Eline at great length regarding methods for developing service design concepts.

Mikkel from Openproject wanted to launch a business reporting company including data harvesting for new markets. The team worked with him on how to communicate the key values of an abstract concept. They boiled it down to the core of what should be conveyed and showed examples of

mapme (a pilot year project from the industry workshop with DSB) and physical magnet tools that Erlend has developed for his final project. The outcome for Mikkel was to divide his plan in to two phases 1) explanation phase to be sketched on paper & 2) a prototype which the team would help with on day two.

The final session for day one of Reboot was run by Nina, Siddharth and Eilidh. They worked with Søren Ejlersen from Aarsriderne.com to visualise the core value of an idea he was presenting to the Climate and Energy Ministry the next day. The core of the idea was to demonstrate the values of train travel. After creating a series of diagrams for Søren to present, the team went armed with a video camera to do live voxpops and asked the question “what qualities would you like to experience when travelling by train”. This provided additional material to support the idea we had visualised.

To sum up...day one at Reboot has been fantastic. It has been great how willing and open people are with their ideas and the number and variety of projects we worked on was amazing. Everyone has shown so much respect for the Open Lab and people have been really enthusiastic about the results of the short, sharp, effective sessions.




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Day two started slightly more slowly but by mid-morning we hit the ground running with Olf, a German product manager in a large tech company and also a father of 3. He is interested in building a platform to help communication in his childrens’ kindergarten. They often use email haphazardly to organise things like BBQs and events and he thinks this can be improved. Tobias & Kevin went through a brain storming session with him, discussing current collaboration tools, social decision making processes and how to test ideas iteratively. Later on, he came back to chat to Marcin to learn a little bit about Ruby on Rails to gain some more technical information about building a system himself.

Erlend, Tobias, Francesco and Sid were asked to make Ami from TwitterJobSearch’s nametag the biggest attention grabber at Reboot 11. The students equipped the tag with bigger text and two red, pulsating, ultrabright leds to make sure that nobody could miss it.

Two ladies from a publishing company approached us with the challenge of how to scale their their writerclub website into something that could support building a writer community, connecting users, finding texts and personalising profiles. Erlend, Sid and Francesco took up the gauntlet and the first part of the brainstorm was used to find the core “selling points” and values. Then we discussed sites that are already doing something within the same domain as the “writes club”. The session ended with a look through the current writer clubs while the students gave them tips and directions on what to change.

While all of this was going on, Mellis gave a talk about making money from open-source hardware. CIID students turned out to support him, and a few other people showed up, too. The talk discussed Mellis’s experience from Arduino: who makes money on it, how, and how much. He also suggested some alternative business models and posed some broader questions about open-source hardware. There was good discussion throughout and lots of interesting suggestions.

While all of this was going on, Kevin was working on a secret assignment to produce posters for the Reboot grant award nominees.

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Tobias and Sid were asked to take a look at Expono and advise Belinda (www.belinda.no) on how she can make her new photosharing website look more userfriendly. At Reboot expono.com was touted as a possible flickr killer. They promised to send her some simple wireframes for the banner and header in exchange for free access to Expono beta! Sid and Tobias think Expono beta has some super awesome functionality and love what it can do.

Eline, Francesco, Nunzia, and Erlend’s adventure with Frederik and Nadia, involved designing graphics to explain what their project Wikicrats can do. They created a document that will be emailed out to potential users as a kind of ‘sign-up’.

Adam, Nina and Ashwin’s big session involved working with guy, a childrens science author. He was interested in exploring how video might work as a medium to do what he\s alredy doing in books (Q&A learning). They did some experience prototyping by getting children to ask questions on video and he responded on video and observed the children’s reactions. This was an exploration that could well continue beyond the conference.

One of the last sessions of the day was with Martston Alfred, the founder of SugarStats.com, a site for diabetics’ sugar levels met Kevin to discuss how he might use data visualisation techniques to present information to his users. Kevin showed him lots of examples of data visualisation techniques, discussed how to use it to tell stories and provide effective information to users. He also showed Marston the data visualisation work done at CIID with Shawn Allen from Stamen Design. Together they came up with a few ideas for visualisations that would be interesting to sugarstats.com users.

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