Reto Wettach: Physical Interaction Design

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Date(s): 
Sat 20 9:00 PM
teaser: 
Computing power is not restricted to devices with lots of buttons and a little screen, like mobile phones or PCs. Computing power is more and more dissolving into spaces and everyday objects. The research community is talking about “ubiquitous computing”. Reto Wettach is going to give an introduction into this field. The main focus of his talk will be the art of prototyping: How can creative people put their ideas into reality?
Host: 
Reto Wettach
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Computing power is not restricted to devices with lots of buttons and a little screen, like mobile phones or PCs. Computing power is more and more dissolving into spaces and everyday objects. The research community is talking about “ubiquitous computing”.

Reto Wettach is going to give an introduction into this field. The main focus of his talk will be the art of prototyping: How can creative people put their ideas into reality?

Biography: 

Prof. Reto Wettach, stone mason, writer and designer. Since 2005 Reto is
setting up Germany’s first MA/BA course for Interaction Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam. He is also heading the research lab Interaction Design Lab IDL. Before joining the University in Potsdam, Reto was an associate professor at the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea. Previously to that, he worked as designer and researcher at Sony in Tokyo and at IDEO in San Francisco.