As part of the IIT Institute of Design's prototyping initiative, we invited Carla Diana, Associate Director of Interaction Design at Smart Design and Jeff Hoefs from the Lab at Rockwell Group to lead a 1 day workshop on the intersection of product and interaction design - exploring what is popularly known as the "internet of things".
These prototyping workshops are part of an ID initiative to bring interesting learning experiences to ID students outside of classes - a way for students to "get their hands dirty", and learn how to prototype from industry experts. The "Internet of Things" workshop was held at ID on Saturday, September 17, 2011 and was offered FREE for all registered students of ID. 24 students participated in the workshop and five teams came up with wacky but fun solutions around how RFIDs can be used to extend interactive experiences from the screen to physical products.
You can read more about ID's prototyping initiatives at the website and follow the Twitter/Facebook pages for upcoming workshops and lectures.
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