Akira Wakita

UNDA

2013

Automotive UI Concept, Soft Robotics / Operation Language, Material Computing

UNDA (Latin for "wave") is an organic interface that was born through collaboration between Toyota InfoTechnology Center and Keio University’s Wakita Lab. As a result of the serious pursuit of intuitiveness for an in-car interface, we have envisioned a sensuous operation surface that organically combines life-like transformation and elastic property. UNDA has been prototyped as one example of this concept. The biggest challenge in this project was the realization of the "undulating concept" for a next-generation operation surface that synchronizes the wavelengths of the user and the machine.

CREDIT

  • Concept and Direction: AKIRA WAKITA
  • Art Direction: KOHEI TSUJI
  • Technical Direction: HISAKAZU HADA
  • Hardware Development: TATSUYA KAIHO
  • Project Management : SAYAKA YOSHIZU
  • Technical Advisor : CHIHIRO SANNOMIYA

PRESS

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