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Product & interaction
Oscura - A smart storage solution

This project was an extraordinaire opportunity to work intensely with the product design department at the FH Joanneum.
Together with the Eco Innovative Industrial Designers, we participated in the Siemens Home Appliances Award 2018. The topic: Prototyping the future.

Oscura is a smart storage solution which can be configured individually to the consumers' needs. For this, Oscura offers active and passive cooling compartments in two different sizes. The active & digital compartments are equipped with smart sensors, so the compartment adjust its climate regarding its content. This results in better energy usage as Oscura guides you with storing the right groceries together and turns off compartments if empty. The generated heat from the magnetic cooling system is lead thru the ventilation plugs to the passive cooling compartments. There this warmth enables the evaporation cooling effect. Thanks to an adjustable docking opportunity and smart plug valve systems, exchanging the single compartments and enlarging the storage system is not a problem.

Diverse & Smart interaction

Interaction with Oscura happens in four different ways. First the LED Matrix on every Compartment. Second the
projected control interface activated by foot movement. Third a voice API. Fourth the Oscura Companion App. The LED Matrix
on the front provides information about the content and the temperature simply and elegantly.
Occupied or dirty hand? The activated floor projection offers you the compartment overview and serves with opening compartments by recognizing the foot position on the projected icons. For searching specific ingredients the voice API or the companion app
sound like constructive ideas. The Oscura app also provides more functions like climate regulation for the power user and even the ability to check Oscura's content from everywhere. October 2017 - January 2018

Concept Team: Haase Philipp, Matusin Marta, Sedlackova Katerina
My Part: App Design & App Prototype, Product Interface (LED Matrix) & Prototype, Product Trailer
Using: Sketch, Protopie, Arduino, Adobe Illustrator & After Effects
Test the OSCURA APP-Prototype here.

INTERACTIVE ART
FOR INVOLVING EXHIBITIONS

INTERACTIVE
ART FOR
INVOLVING
EXHIBITIONS

Silhuette of Person standing in front of the installation

Pushkin's poetry
Kinnect Installation

The human can only understand others by taking action and paying attention to cues. Pushkin's Poetry is an interactive installation that translates Russian poetry to german by moving the own body in front of the installation. This project is a quick, installation in collaboration with a Russian student to the topic Poetry. The translation of Pushkin's poems happens thru the own body movement. The person itself creates the connection between the German and the Russian language. Highlighted German words within the Russian text, irritate the passing visitors and invite them for a closer look. April 2017

interACTIVE
INSTALLATION
THE PORTFOLIO
MACHINE

interACTIVE INSTALLATION
THE PORTFOLIO MACHINE

The Portfolio Machine was the main object at the "Collective Dreams" Exhibition in Graz representing the Interaction Design Major of the Communication, Media, Sound & Interaction Master Program Exhibition in January 2018.
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The portfolio machine represents a combination of analog and digital skill visualisation of each student within the Programm.
A network of lateral thinkers, creative professionals and aspirants or already established ones from the creative industries, all communication, media, sound and interaction designers of the study year "CMS16" can be found in this exhibition piece.
Browse and dive into their network, be inspired by the work of the the designers.
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First the visitor should decide the Major he want to dive in by using the compass on the table, the options are Interaction-, Media-, Sound- & Communication Design. By touching the names on the table the visitor can choose a student. The Portfolio of the certain person will appear on the huge book on the table. By swiping the pages the visitor can see through the projects of the students.
November 2017 - January 2018

Project Team: Sedlackova Katerina & Beatrice Bunjaku
My Part: Technical Solution & Execution for Content Control (Page Turning & Compass),
UX Concept, Exhibition Design & Construction of Exhibition Models
Using: Microsoft Surface Table, Arduino, Max.msp, Reactivision, Projector & Camera
Front End Development of the GUI: Beatrice Bunjaku

Save the unicorn
Little Game & Installation

"SAVE THE UNICORN" is a little mobile game, which activates an attached installation by reaching the game goal. The project was relized by using components from LittleBits, Arduino and coded with Pocket Code.
My work part: Construction of the installation and game coding.
December 2016

Pushkin's poetry
Kinnect Installation

This project is a quick, installation in collaboration with a Russian student to the topic Poetry. The translation of Pushkin's poems happens thru the own body movement. The person itself creates the connection between the German and the Russian language. Highlighted German words within the Russian text, irritate the passing visitors and invite them for a closer look. April 2017

PRODUCT CONCEPTS WITH PHYSICAL & DIGITAL
IDEA ILLUSTRATION

VIme -Concept
SmarT Fashion Mirror

VIME is a smart fashion mirror for your personal closet. Finding the right outfit never was so easy. VIME captures all your clothes and offers you a coordinated browsing thru your closet to find the best match. This project work consists of the conceptual part, an image video as well as creating a prototype to prove the idea of the concept.

Prototyping for getting the Proof Of Concept and proving the experience of browsing thru a virtual closet while seeing the clothes "projected" on the own body, was most important part of the prototype.
(Used Software: MAX.msp)The gesture simulation worked with some "magic gloves" attached via the Makey Makey to Max.msp software.

My Part: Concept, building and coding of the prototype.
December 2016

Some Smaller PROJECTS

Customerdisplay
Screen Design

An austrian pharmalogistic company developed a new customer screen for their hardware portfolio including a new software. Therefore a screen design was needed. For the customization by different pharmacies, three color themes were integrated into the software system.
June 2017

Polequeen
Webdesign

Webdesign for the pole dance teaching sportstudio "Polequeen". Part of the project was a screen design, the web implementation & content management. May 2017

www.polequeen.at

Familingo-
Interactive Book

LINKING LANGUAGES TO FAMILY MEMBERS
FAMILINGO is a personal interactive project using the Ravensburger TipToi pen. As more and more families have different cultural and lingual background, FAMILINGO supports parents to teach their children the understanding for different languages and connect these languages to their relatives. The book comes with a sticker system, which makes it ease to get it personalized for all the different origins. June 2017

Checzonic-
Sonificated Chess

CHESZONIC is bringing fun into a serious chess game and engages the mentality of each character by their specific sounds.The Project works by recognizing the fixed codes below the characters by a camera underneath the playground. A software analyzes the code of the moved character and plays the dedicated sound.Applied technology: Reactivision codes & Max.msp. May 2017

SOME quick WORKS
JUST FOR FUN
WHICH I ENJOYED ...

Herbs & Spices
Interface Design

This work consists of the interfacedesign for a Microsoft Surface table installation. The topic of the project is different spices and their origin. The aim is to make it understandable where spices came from, what their forms are, how and where do they grow. As the main interaction, the synonym of the mill was taken to navigate within the process of the spice treatment. The tangible elements are spice glasses. By moving the boxes from their position on the table to the info point - the spice related information will appear. June 2017

Adventure hike
App Design

ADVENTURE HIKE brings a new experience for fantasy and sci-fi lovers, who enjoy the outdoors. ADVENTURE HIKE is a combination of a hiking map and an audiobook. By selecting a story you get checking points from the app, where you get to know more about your story, achieve creatures or elements in simple games and choose the next hint for your adventure. July 2017

BALTHASAR-
Gamifying rail Tracks

Balthasar is a gamified content creator and travel advisor concept for the Austrian railway company. This project was created at the FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria. Travellers and commuters who already use the train frequently benefit by traveling, sharing meaningful content about the country and posting photos and information about beautiful places and sights in Austria. By doing so the users collect points and get Boni from the ÖBB. The App has two different modes, which may be chosen for every trip. The Explorer and the Follower. The Explorer discovers the country, creates content and shares it with the community. As a Follower, you are able to choose from that routes and get known to all the beauties of the Austrian country.

Concept: Julia Baldauf, Ivana Brkic, Johannes Kippelt, Joshua Lilienthal, Martha Ramirez, Katerina Sedlackova, Alina Sorger, Daria Titarenko

Screendesign & Animations: Katerina Sedlackova
(Further Credits: see video); December 2017

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