It's a Touch Thing is a service offering touch technologies such as NFC/RFID and QR to the creative industries. We are funded by the Technology Strategy Board to develop a hardware and software platform that will allow event and ad creatives as well as theatre and other arts to make powerful and entertaining touch-based experiences. The Oyster card is perhaps the best known touch technology. Our service turns this functionality into an exciting personalised media experience for entertainment or information. A simple touch can both unleash mobile & embedded media and integrate people into online social media.
The team behind It's a Touch Thing:
Tim Kindberg
Tim has two decades of experience as a computer scientist, helping technologies including NFC/RFID and QR grow to solve business problems and create and enhance experiences for users. He spent the last decade researching and developing mobile and pervasive technologies at HP Labs in Palo Alto and Bristol, and at his own company matter 2 media.
Rik Lander
Rik is an experienced interactive storyteller for entertainment, education and commercials. In 2001 he made magic-tree one of the UK's first web dramas, in 2006, Wannabes, the BBC's first interactive soap and in 2010, The Memory Dealer a site specific interactive set in Nottingham. Touch technologies open up massive opportunities for very immersive narrative experiences in the world. Rik's website.
Tim Kindberg
Tim has two decades of experience as a computer scientist, helping technologies including NFC/RFID and QR grow to solve business problems and create and enhance experiences for users. He spent the last decade researching and developing mobile and pervasive technologies at HP Labs in Palo Alto and Bristol, and at his own company matter 2 media.
Rik Lander
Rik is an experienced interactive storyteller for entertainment, education and commercials. In 2001 he made magic-tree one of the UK's first web dramas, in 2006, Wannabes, the BBC's first interactive soap and in 2010, The Memory Dealer a site specific interactive set in Nottingham. Touch technologies open up massive opportunities for very immersive narrative experiences in the world. Rik's website.
My Big Break
This is a game created by Rik and Tim that uses RFID-enabled coffee mugs to trigger questions sent by SMS to your phone each time you have a tea break. It is is a research project designed to see how people react to taking part in a narrative that is embedded in their environment. It's currently being tested at the Pervasive Media Studio.
Contact info@itsatouchthing.net or Rik Lander 07900 690 350, Tim Kindberg 07954 582 814