NEIL CLAVIN STUDIO
PROJECTS
FLIRT

1999

client ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART WITH PHILLIPS RESEARCH EUROPE AND HELSINKI TELEPHONE CORPORATION
sponsor ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
interaction design NEIL CLAVIN, MARCUS EVANS, BEN HOOKER, SHONA KITCHEN, FIONA RABY,
category SERVICE DESIGN

Brief
Simulate new services for the Flirt research project examining urban mapping and mobile telephony in Helsinki.
Solution
The urban experiences of a number of personas are represented via a clip-on lcd screen attached to their Phillips Genie mobile phone.
The personas included: Sunni, a woman dedicated to entertainment seeking; The Old Man who rises early and experiences a more sedate version of the city; Mrs Rekjavik, a professional bargain hunter;

Scavo, a compulsive obsessive searching for junk to construct something that makes sense only to himself; Marta, potential solemate of Sunni - when they pass close to another within a network cell the world as represented on their phones literally explodes with passion; Jalo, a trivia fan who loves gathering information and demonstrating how much he knows.

View prototypes
Flirt website
Buy the Flirt project book

PHILIPS ILIUM SYNERGY CLIP-ON SMARTPHONE Cast of charachters: Sunni, Old Man, Mrs Rejkavik, Scavo, Sunni + Marta, Jalo
Display for Sunni, entertainment seeker
Display for old man, early riser
Display for Mrs Rekjavik, bargain seeker.
Display for Scavo, the scavenger searches for items to complete..who knows what?
Display for Sunni & Marta - the lovers - as they cross each other's paths the screen erupts with 'Lovetechtonics'.
Display for Jalo, obsessed with facts and figures
Visualisations as represented in Flirt project book
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