SideTracker Device – Sensor to Track Movements

Students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interactive Design invented the SideTracker device to trace your movements.

The Sidetrack table peripherally records you as you work in the home, tracing a pattern as you move from space to space. Marker pens plot this pattern as the table spins, oscillating in time with your movement between rooms. Sensors are placed in the areas you want to observe, for example the desk or the kitchen. By placing tags on the table, you purposefully work towards set tasks, with the patterns reflecting the journey towards these objectives. In this way, giving value to the intangible effort and pockets of time you devote whilst working from home.

Sidetrack was made by Jacek Barcikowski, Jennifer Kay and Martina Pagura during Tangible User Interface at CIID in 2010.

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