Rolodex Facebook Device
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Rolodex-Facebook-Device is a table-top artefact to access Facebook. Here the idea was to look at pages on Facebook as places that are accessed through a device reminiscent of a rolodex which was used to indexing information in the past. Rolodex was a popular device back in the day to index contact information. The idea for this tangible social media artefact directly borrows from the idea of a rolodex. What if we still used it to access our Facebook news feed?
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The idea of endless scrolling of the facebook news feed on the computer led to the action (interaction) of flipping the cards endlessly on a tangible object.
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The user can flip through these cards to access Facebook content on the artefact. These cards are similar to a Rolodex which being an indexing system works as hypertext to access text in this case. The concept also was tangentially influenced by the idea of 'memex' developed by Vannevar Bush.
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Time Duration : 4 Weeks / 2012
Design project at New Media Design @ NID, India
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Other works :
Kavak Prakash, The Story of Light :​
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“Kavak Prakash” is a light-based interactive electromechanical organisms inspired by the phenomenon of bioluminescence of deep sea creatures.
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A point and click adventure inspired by the dream theorems of prodigious mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, and originating from an opera by the classical dancer Jayalakshmi Eshwar. The game is co-produced with the support of Quicksand Gameslab, Unbox and BLOT!.
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