Imola Bérczi, Lukasz Kos, Christine Elson, Yusef Frasier, Sarah Iwata, and Gabe Sawhney of TEST|ROOM created "DX Tagged" for the First Annual Design Exchange - National Design Conference in October. While attending the conference, I was able to participate in this interesting project.

"The goal was to create an open interactive project that incited a conversation addressing the role of RFID technology in the design field". During the conference, DX participants consumed food and drinks, socialized, and admired the realtime plan view of ourselves represented by dots, projected on the wall behind.



The aptly named "TIMEStables" were bar height tables that stood at the optimum height for leaning, and socializing.



TEST|ROOM mapped the interactions and movement of those dots through our conference ID badges embedded with the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags, registered by antenna concealed in glowing acrylic tables.






The participant data was compiled, and trajectories based on the intersection of movement within a 10 minute duration of time were rendered into 3D form (above).


After refining the data, TESTROOM then presented their project to the large audience where the the future possibilities of RFID was discussed at length. By making the participants an integral part of the project, the presentation became a lively, and very well-discussed topic. JGB