Who we would like to see at Lift: "Immediate Remote Interaction System"

We decided to make our speakers radar public. Every time we find someone we would like to invite at a future event, we will publish the details here. Don't hesitate to add to the conversation, especially if:

• you know the mentionned persons, and can help us bring them to Lift
• you know another speaker/project on a related topic

Being mentionned here does not equal in an automatic invitation - many other factors matter in creating a good talk like delivery, language, relevance to the general theme. What we want to do is increase transparency to allow for more involvement of the community in the creation of the program.

Alexander Wiethoff of the Department for Informatics at LMU Munich has developed with the Univeristy of Saarbrücken a mobile device application that enables a radically new form of interaction with buildings.

"By combining a recently developed mobile software application with the multimedia facade of the ARS Electronica building [...] we developed two prototypes: in the first application, users can paint interactively on the building using touch input on the mobile device. In a second application, users are able to solve a jigsaw puzzle displayed on the facade."

iRiS - Immediate Remote Interaction System from awiethoff on Vimeo.

Since Adam Greenfield's talk at Lift07, the growing technologization of cities has been at the center of our interest. The IRIS project is a spectacular mix of different interesting trends: buildings as interfaces, mobile devices as terminals to control other objects, the "gamification" of our environment, etc. Let's see if we can organize a demo of this at a future event!

Related Lift talks:
• Adam Greenfield on the read/write city (Lift Asia 07).
• Yang Soo-In on the living city, what happens if buildings can "talk" with each other (Lift Asia 08).
• Jeffrey Huang on the interactive city (Lift Asia 08).
• Carlo Ratti on senseable city, how data allows to reveal new information layer on top of urban space and or lead to new experience for citizens (Lift09).
• Jury Han's work reminds me of the IRIS project too, a billboard and players using mobile phones (Lift Asia 08).