This presentation was originally shown at OCAD as part of the president speakers series. August de los Reyes at the time was working for microsoft, specifically with surface. Microsoft surface is an emerging technology already present in many offices and schools that allows interaction with other digital devices through a table top touch screen interface. I uploaded a clip from this presentation that describes the direction of technology within our lifetime. I highly suggest watching the entire hour long lecture via OCAD's itunes U podcast page.
August de los Reyes is the Principal Design Director for Microsoft
Surface whose team is dedicated to pioneering intuitive ways to interact
with technology.
De los Reyes is a member of the Advanced Studies Program at the Harvard
University Graduate School of Design where he received an MDesS with
Distinction in product design through which he explored the relationship
of emotion and design intent. An affiliate design faculty member at
University of Washington, de los Reyes was a visiting associate at the
University of Oxford, and a 2009 juror of the International Design
Excellence Awards. He is researching his next book entitled
The Poetics of Everyday Objects.
These "tiles" have a number d.i.y industrial conductive textile sensors coupled along with a program that ques them to safely arrive on time for the next step. A very interesting and different approach to the moving floor simulator. Very different from the conveyor belt types that we are used to seeing today
