by Domus Academy Master in Interaction Design & Business Design 2012 / 2013

1. MASTER IN INTERACTION DESIGN &
BUSINESS DESIGN 2012 / 2013
READ-METhe future of reading in a digitally enhanced world
(UPATED 2015)

2. WHEREare we
TODAY?

3. http://bit.ly/14h4z9V
TOUCHINGSTORY-INTERACTIVEFILM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-edAGLokak
AIGORE'SOURCHOICE
https://vimeo.com/15142335
ideofutureofthebook
http://www.wired.com/magazine/tablets/
WIREDIPADMAGAZINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4OzNYxCy40http://www.layar.com/
iDINOSAURBOOKLAYARAUGMENTEDREALITYPLATFORM
Media Integration
3D Augmented Reality
Spatial Navigation
Augmented Text
Manipulable Plot
Connected Book

4. WHEREare we
"TOMORROW"?

5. What if
the book is more than paper?
the book is alive?
the reader is active?
the reader is unique?
the reader is not human?
reading experience becomes social?
reading experience is fragmented?
reading experience is quantifiable?
reading is exploring?

6. What if
the book is more than paper?

7. http://phys.org/news/2013-04-fujitsu-unveils-device-paper-interactive.html
Fujitsu Laboratories uses overhad projector and image
processing to create interative medai on printed paper. The lab
calls this technology “Figerlink Interaction System”
Fingerlinkinteractionsystem
Interactive Paper / Image Processing
https://vimeo.com/25926719
An augmented visualisation of the book, with dynamic
references and updated caption that could pop out by
browsing the pages.
ConceptbyCollectivevisual
Visual Caption / Dynamic Updates

8. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/426490/sketching-electronics-
with-conductive-ink-video/
Leah Buechley from MIT Media Lab draws a circuit with
conductive ink on paper.
Sketchingelectronics
Embedded Circuits / Programming
Behaviors
http://cargocollective.com/phenji/Mito-Flip
Mito Flip is an interative pop-up book that becomes alive
through video projection and iPad application.
MITOFLIP
Interactive Pop-up Book / Sensor

9. https://vimeo.com/32796535
Little Printer prints out timely personalized
mini-newspaper.
LittlePrinterbyBerg
Personalized Paper / Cross-Media /
Content Syndication
http://www.yankodesign.com/2012/07/10/digital-data-printer/
Oksu is a digital data printer that print out images that
embedded with NFC technology. People can easily retrieve
data back from the print by tapping it on their devices.
OKSU
Print Media / Enhanced Paper

10. What if
the book is alive?

11. https://vimeo.com/84412874
Senory Fiction, a project by MIT Media Lab, create new
reading experience through a wearable that vibrates and
changes temperature as a reader read through the book.
SENSORYFICTION
Bio-Sensing Book / E-Textile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfPMLgepMGE
The user casts spells by drawing shapes with the PlayStation
Move controller. The book uses augmented reality technology
to enhance the digital contents.
BookofSpells
Bookstage / Enriched Content

12. https://vimeo.com/14492626
ProverbialWalletsbyMITMediaLab
Tangible / Haptic / Data Materialization
Proverbial Wallets turn your financial information into tangible
feedback in order to remind user about their online spending
behavior.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_
embedded&v=2JJWdqKI2Os
Ubooly is an interactive toy. It can tell story, and the story
moves according to the user action
Ubooly
Interactive Toy / Reading Companion

13. What if
the reader is active?

14. http://readwrite.com/2011/08/08/amazon_brings_social_reading_to_
kindle
Kindle can show sentences with popular highlight.
KINDLEPopularHIGHLIGHt
Living Annotations / Readers Tracks
http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/pencasts/
Livescribe is a pen that automatically records and transfers
your drawing and audio to your computer.
LIVESCRIBE
Pencasting / Audio Enhanced Sketches

15. http://ivanpoupyrev.com/projects/moments.php
A children’s book recorder that can be used by parents when
they are reading a book together with their children. The
device can be attached to any children’s book.
SpecialMoments-bookrecorder
Recording Voices / Re-telling Stories
http://blog.virallyapp.com/how-to-crowdsource-an-ebook/
“Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally
performed by a designated agent (usually an employee)
and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of
people in the form of an open call.” Jeff Howe’s definition of
‘Crowdsource’
CROWDSOURCINGPUBLISHING
Crowd Power / Networked Edition /
Indie Authors

16. What if
the reader is unique?

17. http://flipboard.com/
With Flipboard, users can create their own magazine through
curating from Flipboard content and read them anywhere.
FLIPBOARD
Content Feeds / Personal Curation
http://longreads.com/
Longreads allows reader to search article based on amount of
time it takes to read
LONGREADS
Timed Content / Just in Time

18. http://hackingjournalism.challengepost.com/submissions/24262-
datacle
Datacle allows news publishers to add “datacle” tags into their
articles. These tags will display data base on geolocations of
where the articles are being read.
DATACLE
Personalize News / Location-based
Reading
http://www.volacent.com/web2go_desktop.html
Mobile app that reads aloud any text: inspired by dyslexic
needs
web2go
Reading Aloud / Book Listening

19. What if
the reader is not human?

20. http://www.diybookscanner.org/
The Archivist is an opensource DIY book scanner. It has been
used to prepare data for Google Books, preserve historical
documents in a third-world country, and etc.
TheARCHIVIST
Digitalize Content / DIY Book Scanner
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/
IBM Watson is a supercomputer with congnitive technology
that can learn and understand unstructured data and human’s
nature language. It has won human over a Jeopardy game.
IBMWatson
Artificially Intelligent (AI)

21. What if
the reading experience
is social?

22. https://www.facebook.com/paper http://www.goodreads.com/
Paper enhances the reading experience of Facebook feed
through immersive design and layout.
Goodreads is the world largest site for readers and book
recommendations.
PaperbyFACEBOOK Goodreads
Social Feed / Immersive Experience Digital Library / Social Reviews

23. https://www.dotdotdot.me/ https://www.youversion.com/
dotdotdot is a social reading application for ebooks and long-
format webtexts. Readers can follow what others are reading
and comment on their highlights.
YouVersion is an free online Bible where readers can annotate
and share their thought on specific phrase in Bible. They can
also form and join reading group.
doTdotdot YouVersion
Easy Reading / Public Highlights /
Long-Term Reading
Social Annotations / Reading Groups

24. What if
the reading experience is
fragmented?

25. https://itunes.apple.com/app/id922497631
BriefMe is an application that ranks 10 articles that are most
consumed and shared at the moment and presents the
headline of those articles to the readers.
BRIEFME
Viral News / Social Reading
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/opinion/sunday/faking-cultural-
literacy.html
“We no longer have the time to consume any primary material.
We rely instead on the casual observations of our ‘friends’ or
the people we ‘follow’...”
Karl Taro Greenfeld, “Faking Cultural Literacy”
FakingCulturalLiteracy
Information Submersion

26. https://twitter.com/Slicequeen
A horror story by Toby Litt, took place over two blogs and
Twitter feeds and allowed readers to become part of a family’s
slow descent into madness.
SLICE
Micro-publishing / Narrative Chains
http://craigmod.com/journal/subcompact_publishing/
“We are the new customers... The Magazine is indeed
cheaper, simpler, smaller, and more convenient than most
other publishing apps.”
Craig Mod, “Subcompact Publishing”
TheMagazine
Subcompact Publishing / Mobile Format

27. What if
the reading experience is
quantifiable?

28. http://booktwo.org/notebook/books-after-books/ http://yesyesno.com/nike-collab-paint
Bookr is an interactive book cover that visualizes progress of
reading experience.
YesYesNo design studio turns running data from Nike+
into art works
BookRbySVA Nike+PaintWithYourFeet
Quantified Reading / Dynamic Cover Qualified-Self / Data Visualization /
Artwork

29. http://cargocollective.com/phenji/Roko http://cargocollective.com/tsnoon/eMOGIC
Roko, by Natt Phenjati, is a concept of an platform that
quantifies your reading activites in order to help you manage,
discover, and share your reading experience
eMOGIC, by Thapanee Srisawat, is a concept of a book search
engine that based on matching readers who have similar
emotion reaction when reading.
ROKO eMogic
Quantified Reading / Goal-setting Emotion Tracking / Book Matching

30. What if
the reading experience is
exploring?

31. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669649/a-giant-concrete-joke-book-
provides-5643-square-feet-of-laffs#5
http://lesiteducube.com/en/espace-pro/fictions-d-issy-jean-pierre-
balpe_1072
5,643 square feet of jokes, monologues, and one-liners The plot takes place in a two dimensions space, the reader
can wander in the fictional space of the novel as his characters
wander in the geographical space of the city, and he is
discovering a psychological space.
ComedyCarpet FICTIONSD'ISSY
Walkable Book / Choreographic
Reading
Distributed Text / Wander Reading

32. http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/07/google-endgame-augmented-
reality-world/
http://simogo.com/work/device-6/
Developing by Niantic, a studio that created Ingress,
Endgame: The Calling is a project that combines novels with
real world activities and rewards like real gold.
DEVICE 6, a surreal thriller app, that combines games with
literature. Reader has to solve puzzles hidden in text and
multimedia to continue reading.
ENDGAME:THECALLING DEVICE6
Immersive Novel / Real-life Puzzle Interactive Stroytelling

33. What if
the book is more than paper?
the book is alive?
the reader is active?
the reader is unique?
the reader is not human?
reading experience becomes social?
reading experience is fragmented?
reading experience is quantifiable?
reading is exploring?

34. PEOPLE
Claudio Moderini
Koki Nomura Natalia Sourdis Sandeep Gajula Natt Phenjati Rayane Hazim
Nima Gazestani