https://anna-schaeffner.com Anna Schaeffner Thu, 02 May 2024 16:04:03 +0000 https://anna-schaeffner.com en https://anna-schaeffner.com/AR-Interaction Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:24:21 +0000 Anna Schaeffner https://anna-schaeffner.com/AR-Interaction  How to link elements of the physical world with digital environments? Can digital representations of our analogue world be actively shaped? And what are the potentials of these digital captures? These prototypes investigate the digital requirements needed to translate physical gesture in a software environment, creating a digital twin. https://anna-schaeffner.com/Hybrid-tools Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:30:41 +0000 Anna Schaeffner https://anna-schaeffner.com/Hybrid-tools  Residency at SPACE 10, Copenhaguen The Project Contextual gesture Interface, is a research experimentation on new Hybrid tools, that involves a physical object to interact with computers. Building bridges between physical prototyping and computer assisted design, using Augmented reality and hand tracking technology.In collaboration with software Ingenieur Mathias Joergen. all Photo by Niklas Vindelev https://anna-schaeffner.com/physical-coding Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:40:37 +0000 Anna Schaeffner https://anna-schaeffner.com/physical-coding  Visual translation of the code behind “contextual gesture interface”A graphic represent of the interaction as it is built and programmed in the software. https://anna-schaeffner.com/Human-robot-collaboration Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:33:06 +0000 Anna Schaeffner https://anna-schaeffner.com/Human-robot-collaboration   In a context of collaboration between human and machine, a key element is the transmission of the human’s gesture, to give birth to the machine’s move- ment. Here, the notion of collaboration is based on the empirical knowledge of the human in contact with the material, and on the capacity of the machine to interpret this gesture to define its movement. https://anna-schaeffner.com/Soft-interface Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:54:56 +0000 Anna Schaeffner https://anna-schaeffner.com/Soft-interface  Looking at soft robotics in order to explore whether physical gestures can facilitate nonverbal communication with machines. Would this allow to tap into intrinsic patterns of physical behavior, like anticipation, or even create a form of empathy towars robots?The field of soft robotics might serve as a source of inspiration to create new organic interaction concepts with autonomous systems. https://anna-schaeffner.com/Soft-Collision Thu, 02 May 2024 16:04:03 +0000 Anna Schaeffner https://anna-schaeffner.com/Soft-Collision   Soft Collision (2024) looks at the potential of safe physical interaction by embracing collision rather than avoiding it. Creating a tangible interface between humans and robots as a tool for direct manipulation and live programming. Introducing a novel design framework, by a deformable and sensitive membrane activated via pneumatic. VOJEXT S+T+ARTS Art Residence 3: Social Robots Residence lead by VOJEXT PARTNERS: Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologica (IIT), Universdidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Universidad Nebrija (UNNE) and WAAG Supported by The Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« Berlin This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Grant Agreement no.952197 Image credit :Michelle Mantel Performance : Mmichela Filzi https://anna-schaeffner.com/Anna-Schaeffner-home Thu, 20 Jan 2022 10:50:49 +0000 Anna Schaeffner https://anna-schaeffner.com/Anna-Schaeffner-home About Anna Schaeffner, is an interaction designer and researcher. After studying product design in France she graduated with a Bachelor's degree (2018) and a Master's degree (2021) in interaction design, at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee in Berlin where she lives since 2015. Today she is enrolled in a practice based PhD at EnsadLab Paris, in the reflective interaction group and at cluster of excellence »matters of activity image, space, material« HU from Berlin. Her research centers on soft robotics and the design of deformation as a vehicle for movement, dynamic material adaptation, and expressiveness. Through her design practice, she investigates hybrid forms of interaction to enhance the connection between robotic objects and their environments. picture credit:Michelle Mantel https://anna-schaeffner.com/Nav Thu, 20 Jan 2022 10:50:49 +0000 Anna Schaeffner https://anna-schaeffner.com/Nav