Innovation Design Engineering (MA/MSc)
Yi-Fan Hsieh
Yi-Fan Hsieh is a Taiwanese experienced industrial designer, specializing in the synthesis of technology and design solution to be applicable and appealing to the market. His practice embodies the simplicity, subtlety and practical solution from his unique view of the subjects.
During IDE course, his group project, Fallback, has been featured in Dezeen and Creative Application and has been honoured in the Core77 Design award of Student Notable for Design for Social Impact. In the Grand Challenge module set by CERN and RCA in 2019, his group, Knowtrition team, was the final winner in the category of Healthcare and Wellbeing. Also, he was one of the selected applicants for the Circular Economy Fellowship program 2018 holding by IDEO COLAB London. Previously, he worked for TG0, a London based startup developing future 3D interactive hardware products.
As an industrial designer, he aims to deliver engaging tangible experiences that connect the physical and digital world.
He believes that bringing the technical and design aspects of knowledge together will be an essential core skill for the industrial designers to be a joint between diverse teamwork. Thus we have obligations to make those innovations happen, to give innovation genuine value and go beyond the current product forms and categories.
Loci — The concept of loci is to create the channels between the physical and digital world.
Loci anchor is the core of this new interactive interface that links tangible objects to computer user interfaces using spatial intelligence. The anchor can be located on the selected surface of the object recognized by the computer vision. And the computer side of the anchor will be able to define the interactive area of the graphical user interface that corresponds to the Loci anchor. Loci anchors will be created/placed and navigated in the environment by a mouse, which embodies the traditional pointer of the computer peripheral.
Prototype1.0-1 — The first version of the prototype creates a direct physical address to the digital interface.
Prototype1.0-2 — This demonstration showcases the possibility of seamless interaction to embed digital content onto our environment.
Prototype2.0-1 — This refined prototype controls the anchor point on the surface of the object(mug) which is linked to the particular control(zoom buttons) of the map.
Prototype2.0-2 — This prototype demonstrates the usage of the customized and adaptive user interface to allow people to create their digital document library interface on their notebook.
Loci plug-in software — Loci anchor attached to a linear moving element of the digital interface.
Loci plug-in software — Loci anchor attached to the folder of the computer OS.
Loci mouse
Hardware composition
Traditionally, spatial interactions have been about placing a camera on the other side to capture gestures, which I think is different from holding a camera to capture a digital object. The user has more autonomy than trying to fit objects into the camera's field of view.
EarlyEXP1 — "Navigation of the hidden data." - How can we understand the meaning of information represents through the hidden signal?
EarlyEXP2 — "Simplify multimodal interface interaction" - What if we apply the usage of user interface we used to this new spatial interface?
EarlyEXP3 — "From Navigation to sensing of invisible existence" - What if we can recognize the functions of the data through direct feedback in the 3D space?
EarlyEXP4 — "Giving Digital Content a Body" - What if the location of the physical body is where the data is stored on the computer?
EarlyEXP5 — "Computer interface and environment merge into one" - How do we enable users to move from a traditional computer interface to the entire environmental interface?
EarlyEXP6 — "The shape of the spatial objects as interface" - What if we can touch the objects around us as computer interaction?
Assuming that we can physically interact with those digital content existing in space. What sort of feedback will be triggered by people? The approach of this experimental project is to generate hypotheses through a series of imaginations.