Interactive Institute Umeå is a design research lab focusing on experimental interaction design, primarily for use in industrial environments.
Organizationally, we belong to the Swedish experimental IT-research institute Interactive Institute that seeks to combine expertise in art, design and technology to innovate new digital products and services.
Our lab also has strong ties to the lively and creative interaction design and human-computer interaction environment at Umeå University, Sweden. We’re funded by Swedish ICT Research AB, Umeå University, ABB Corporate Research, and Process IT Innovations.
In terms of research, our work is primarily intended to impact the Interaction Design (IxD) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) communities. We’re prototype-oriented in that pretty much all our projects involve designing and building stuff, where these lab notes are used as a means to showcase what we do as well as to document it for ourselves.
Right now, for instance, we’re working on stuff like seamless interaction between mobile and stationary devices, new kinds of indoor location awareness techniques, multimodal interaction using the touch sense, and an array of different multitouch surfaces.
