Graham Pullin talk in Space 5!

Exploratory Interaction Design, from Social Mobiles to Speaking Chairs

Location: Culture Lab, Space 5
Time/Date: 22nd June 2010, 14:00 - 17:00

Graham Pullin, Lecturer in Interactive Media Design at Dundee University is delivering a talk on 'Exploratory Interaction Design, from Social Mobiles to Speaking Chairs', today in Culture Lab's Space 5!

Graham Pullin joined Interactive Media Design at Dundee after nine years as a senior interaction designer and studio head at international design consultancy IDEO. He has been responsible for designing, or leading teams designing, mobile phones, hearing aids, furniture for children with disabilities and remote-controlled submarines. Previous to entering the design industry he gained an MDes from the Royal College of Art, this after a number of years as a medical engineer, having studied engineering at Oxford University.

SOCIAL MOBILES


A critical design project examining the anger and frustration caused by anti-social mobile phone use, and successful in seeding discussion about this issue in particular, and the social implications of interaction design in general. The method was to design playful, provocative phones that each changed its user’s behaviour to make it less socially disruptive. The output consisted of working prototypes of five phones, a booklet published by IDEO, a website and a video. These outputs seeded further publications by journalists in the international press and broadcast media, including articles in The Economist, Wired, Axis, The Independent and numerous newspapers and magazines worldwide, and TV and radio interviews. The project won a prestigious CGArts award in Tokyo and has also been exhibited at Ars Electronica, Linz in 2003 and at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London in 2005. Social Mobiles was a collaboration between design consultancy IDEO and Crispin Jones, a team project jointly led by Jones & Pullin.

Published: 22nd June 2010